John V. Murra
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President, Institute of Andean Research, New York City. Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Author of The Economic Organization of the Inka State and others.
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Andean peoples, aboriginal inhabitants of the area of the Central Andes in South America. Although the Andes Mountains extend from Venezuela to the southern tip of the continent, it is conventional to call “Andean” only the people who were once part of Tawantinsuyu, the Inca Empire in the Central…
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