This special symposium celebrates the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian’s landmark exhibition, The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire, with a fascinating look at the material, political, economic, and religious structures that integrated more than one hundred Native nations and millions of people in the powerful Andean Empire known as the Tawantinsuyu. In this segment, Tom Dillehay of Vanderbilt University, speaks on "Tawantinsuyu: Andean Empire." Tom Dillehay is Rebecca Webb Wilson University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Religion, and Culture and Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at Vanderbilt University. Dillehay has carried out numerous archaeological and anthropological projects in Perú, Chile, Argentina, and other South American countries, and in the United States. The recipient of numerous international and national awards for his research, books, and teaching, Dillehay currently directs several interdisciplinary projects focused on long-term human and environmental interaction on the north coast of Perú and on the political and cultural identity of the Mapuche people in Chile. The symposium was recorded at the Rasmuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian on June 25-26, 2015.
Video Duration:
25 min 30 sec
YouTube Keywords:
Native American Indian Museum Smithsonian "Indigenous Peoples" "Smithsonian Institution" "Smithsonian NMAI" "National Museum of the American Indian"
