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John Victor Murra

Anthropology

#152

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#234

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#86

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Social Anthropology

#75

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#89

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#11

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Archeology

#316

World Rank

#462

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#74

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PhD Anthropology Columbia University
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According to Wikipedia, John Victor Murra was a Ukrainian-American professor of anthropology and a researcher of the Inca Empire. Early life and education Born Isak Lipschitz in Odesa, Ukraine, Russian Empire, in 1916, Murra emigrated to the United States in 1934 and completed an undergraduate degree in sociology at the University of Chicago in 1936. In 1937, he sailed to Europe and fought in the Spanish Civil War as a foreign volunteer on the side of the Second Spanish Republic. Serving as a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, he initially worked as a smuggler out of Perpignan, France. He then entered Spain and was wounded in battle during the Battle of the Ebro. His injuries later medically precluded him from service in World War II. Returning to the United States in 1939, he returned to Illinois to continue his studies at the University of Chicago. He finished a master's degree in 1942 and a PhD in 1956, both in anthropology.

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John Victor Murra's Published Works

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Staple Finance, Wealth Finance, and Storage in the Inka Political Economy [and Comments and Reply] (1985) (474)
Cloth and Its Functions in the Inca State1 (1962) (195)
The Economic Organization Of The Inka State (1980) (188)
The economic organization of the Inca state (1956) (121)
An Aymara Kingdom In 1567 (1968) (98)
Anthropological History of Andean Polities: The expansion of the Inka state: armies, war, and rebellions (1986) (57)
Herds and herders in the Inca state (1965) (51)
Succession, Coöption to Kingship, and Royal Incest among the Inca (1960) (51)
Survey and excavations in southern Ecuador (1943) (47)
Anthropological history of Andean polities (1987) (45)
The Mit'A Obligations Of Ethnic Groups To The Inka State (1982) (44)
The Vision of the Vanquished (1971) (37)
Some aspects of the Inka kinship system (1986) (34)
Depopulation of the Central Andes in the 16th Century [and Comments and Reply] (1970) (31)
Anthropological History of Andean Polities: Index (1986) (26)
An Archaeological “Restudy” of an Andean Ethnohistorical Account (1962) (21)
Dynastic oral tradition, administrative records and archaeology in the Andes (1976) (19)
The Transition to Statehood in the New World (1982) (16)
Social Structural and Economic Themes in Andean Ethnohistory (1961) (14)
Did Tribute and Markets Prevail in the Andes before the European Invasion (2012) (14)
Anthropological History of Andean Polities. (1987) (13)
The Inca Bridges in the Huánuco Region (1966) (12)
History of the Inca Empire: An Account of the Indians' Customs and their Origin together with a Treatise on inca Legends, History, and Social Institutions. FATHER BERNABÉCOBO. Roland Hamilton, ed. and transl. John Rowe, Foreword (1981) (11)
Andean societies before 1532 (1984) (10)
The Last Inca Revolt (1970) (9)
Current Research and Prospects in Andean Ethnohistory (1970) (9)
The Soviet linguistic controversy (1952) (8)
American anthropology, the early years (1976) (7)
Anthropological History of Andean Polities: Introduction (1986) (5)
The Puerto Rican Journey, New York’s Newest Migrants (1951) (5)
Cloth, Textile, and the Inca Empire (2009) (2)
Inequality in the Peruvian Andes: Class and Ethnicity in Cuzco (1978) (2)
Kenya and the Emergency (1956) (2)
The Incas of Pedro Cieza de Leon. Edited, with an Introduction by Victor Wolfgang von Hagen; translated by Harriet de Onís. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1959. lxxx+397 pp., 33 plates, 4 maps. $5.95. (1960) (2)
An Introduction to the Archaeology of Cuzco (1946) (1)
Ethnology: The Vision of the Vanquished: The Spanish Conquest of Peru through Indian Eyes, 1530–1570. Nathan Wachtel. (1979) (1)
Survey and excavations in southern Ecuador / by Donald Collier, Curator, South American Ethnology and Archaeology, and John V. Murra. (1943) (1)
From ethnic polities to communities (1986) (0)
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Resistance, Rebellion, and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World, 18th to 20th Centuries. Steve J. Stern (1989) (0)
Anthropological History of Andean Polities: Bibliography of published source (1986) (0)
Anthropological History of Andean Polities: Symbolic representations and practices (1986) (0)
John Hyslop 1945-1993 (1994) (0)
Terence N. D'Altroy. Provincial Power in the Inka Empire. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. 1992. Pp. xii, 272. $42.50 (1993) (0)
ARCHEOLOGY: Life, Land and Water in Ancient Peru. Paul Kosok (1966) (0)
ETHNOLOGY: Power and Property in Inca Peru. Sally Falk Moore (1960) (0)
Systems of classification (1986) (0)
OTHER: The Struggle for Africa. Vernon Bartlett (1954) (0)
Information Concerning The Religion And Government Of The Incas (0)
Domination and Resistance. DANIEL MILLER, MICHAEL ROWLANDS, and CHRISTOPHER TILLEY, eds (1994) (0)
Reviews of books: Latin America (1993) (0)
Clean fuel vehicles are Powershift in action (1999) (0)
Kuyo Chico: Applied Anthropology in an Indian Community. By Oscar Núñez del Prado. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973. Pp. 162. $9.50.) (1974) (0)
SECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY: STUDIES IN FAMILY ORGANIZATION IN THE FRENCH CARIBBEAN* (1957) (0)
The Andes before 1532 (1995) (0)
LOCKHART, James, The Men of Cajamarca: A Social and Biographical Study of the First Conquerors of Peru, Institute of Latín American Studies, University of Texas; University of Texas Press, Austin-London, 1972, XVI + 496 págs. (1977) (0)
SOUTH AMERICA: The Incas. Lost City of the Andes. Intirumi (1976) (0)
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: The Ancient Civilizations of Peru. J. Alden Mason (1958) (0)
The Vision of the Vanquished. By Nathan Wachtel. (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1977. Pp. 328. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Tables. Figures. Maps. Index. $25.00.) (1978) (0)
VII. Un royaume aymara en 1567 (2012) (0)
DISCUSSION: THE INTELLECTUAL AND THE PLURAL SOCIETY* (2006) (0)
Anthropological History of Andean Polities: The ethnic group and the state (1986) (0)
The Inca Empire: The Formation and Disintegration of a Pre-Capitalist State. Thomas C. Patterson. Berg Publishers, New York, 1991. ii + 211 pp., bibliography, index. $39.95 (1994) (0)
Man and Land in Peru. Thomas R. Ford (1956) (0)
Struggle in the Andes: Peasant Political Mobilization in Peru. By Howard Handelman. [Latin American Monographs No. 35.] (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1975. Pp. xvii, 303. Glossary. Maps. Index, Bibliography. $10.00.) (1975) (0)
Anthropological History of Andean Polities: Ecology and society (1986) (0)
Ethnology:The Men of Cajamarca: A Social and Biographical Study of the First Conquerors of Peru. JAMES LOCKHART (1975) (0)
John V. Murra, Nathan Watchel y Jacques Revel (eds.). Anthropological history of Aandean polities. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1986. 383 p. (1990) (0)
The Sonjo of Tanganyika: An Anthropological Study of an Irrigation‐based Society. Robert F. Gray (1964) (0)
The Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State. (1988) (0)
Sozialpolitik im Inka-Staat (1969) (0)
The Origins and Development of the Andean State (1988) (0)

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