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INKA POTTERY AS CULINARY EQUIPMENT: FOOD, FEASTING, AND GENDER IN IMPERIAL STATE DESIGN.

In this paper, the imperial Inka ceramic assemblage is examined in terms of its functional and culinary significance. Information culled from ethnohistoric sources, archaeological reports, and ethnographic studies is used to draw functional inferences about Inka vessel forms and to outline the featu...

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Published in:Latin American Antiquity Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 3 - 29
Main Author: Bray, Tamara L.
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press Mar2003
Subjects:
Inca pottery
Ethnohistory
Archaeology
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