Michael Malpass is professor of anthropology and Charles A. Dana Professor in the Social Sciences at Ithaca College. His chief publications include Provincial Inca: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Assessment of the Impact of the Inca State (Iowa, 1993) and Daily Life in the Inka Empire, Revised Edition. He has conducted research on the Middle Horizon Wari state, the evolution of agricultural systems during the late prehispanic period in the Colca Valley, Peru, and the archaic adaptations along the Pacific coast during the Preceramic Period.