The Northern Dynasties: Kingship and Statecraft in Chimor (A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 12th and 13th October 1985)

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1990 8vo (23.5 cm), X, 548 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). This volume comprises papers presented at the October 12-13, 1985, symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. Contents include: "Structure and history in the dynastic lore of Chimor" by Michael E. Moseley; "Internal Development and Organization. Architecture of the Chimu : memory, function, and image" by William J. Conklin; "A maritime passage from Moche to Chimu" by Donna McClelland; "The urban concept of Chan Chan" by Alan L. Kolata; "Craft production in the Kingdom of Chimor" by John R. Topic; "Expansion and Frontiers. Territorial expansion and the Kingdom of Chimor" by Theresa Lange Topic; "The southern frontier of the Chimu Empire" by Carol J. Mackey and A.M. Ulana; "Klymyshyn Farfan, General Pacatnamu, and the dynastic history of Chimor" by Geoffrey W. Conrad; "An assessment of the validity of the Naymlap Dynasty" by Christopher B. Donnan; "The Chotuna friezes and the Chotuna-Dragon connection" by Christopher B. Donnan; "Cultural continuities and the discontinuities on the northern north coast of Peru, middle-late horizons" by Izumi Shimada; "Fonga Sidge, shell purveyor to the Chimu kings" by Alana Cordy-Collings; "The northern frontier of the Kingdom of Chimor: the Piura, Chira, and Tumbez valleys" by James B. Richardson III, Mark A. McConaughy, Allison Heaps de Pena, and Elena B. Decima Zamecnik; "Ethnohistorical Considerations. Ethnohistorical considerations about Chimor" by Maria Rostworowski de Diez Canseco; "Out of many, one : the organization of rule in the north coast polities" by Patrucua J. Netherly; "Dynastic structures in Andean cultures" by R. Tom Zuidema; "The Inca conquest of the north coast: a historian's view" by Susan E. Ramirez.