EL INKA Y EL PODER COMO PROBLEMAS DE LA ARQUEOLOGíA DEL NORTE GRANDE DE CHILE

the advance in the cultural history of circumpuna peoples at the atacama desert, during late intermediate (a.d. 950-1450) and late periods (a.d. 1450-1550), have allowed us to develop new ideas about the expansion in of the inka empire. based on different cultural materials and new critical views about current model and interpretation, of the relationships between tawantinsuyo and local peoples of northern chile. in this context we focuss on the concept of "ideology", based on the theory and methodology of structuralism, marxism and symbolic of postprocessual archaeology