The Oxford Handbook of the Incas
Edited by Sonia Alconini and R. Alan Covey
Reviews and Awards
"The book includes input from many of the leading researchers in the field of Andean studies, a multidisciplinary group including archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, architects and biochemists, among others. They provide the reader with a comprehensive discussion of the Inca polity, its empire, administration and management of the many ethnic groups under its control, from Argentina, Bolivia and Chile in the south across Peru, to Ecuador in the north." -- The Antiquaries Journal
"Alconini and Covey's book, the outcome of an intellectual ayni—the Quechua word for a collective effort—captures in detail the current state of knowledge about Tawantinsuyu, and it arrives at a time of renewed academic and public dialogue on the past and present of Andean countries." -- Latin American Antiquity
"Alconini and Covey have put together an important and enduring volume that certainly will form an important baseline for future synthetic approaches to the Inca and their legacies." -- Noa Corcoran-Tadd, Desert Archaeology
"This impressive handbook on the Incas has 47 articles by 48 international scholars... The Inca Empire ranks among the great civilizations of the world, as this comprehensive volume admirably demonstrates." --CHOICE
"The Oxford Handbook of the Incas makes an important contribution to Inca and Andean studies that utilizes a multidisciplinary, multiscale approach. The book is thoroughly researched and richly illustrated with more than forty articles and two hundred illustrations. Chapters break new ground using innovative multidisciplinary research from the areas of archaeology, ethnohistory and art history." -- SirReadaLot.org