Andean Archaeology I

Variations in Sociopolitical Organization

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

AvWilliam H. Isbell,William H. Isbell,Helaine Silverman,William H Isbell

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The origins and development of civilization are vital components to the understanding of the cultural processes that create human societies. Comparing and contrasting the evolutionary sequences from different civilizations is one approach to discovering their unique development. One area for comparison is in the Central Andes where several societies remained in isolation without a written language. As a direct result, the only resource for understanding these societies is in their material artefacts. In this work, the focus is on what the material remains reveal about the sociopolitical structures of the Central Andes region.This focus on ancient identity politics adopts a perspective that explicitly interrogates the processes and strategies by which higher social groups acted as self-interested agents in the achievement and maintenance of differential status, including: symbols of power and their role in the construction of an elite identity; social legitimization and achievement of economic or material power; design of architecture for the display of power and exercise of social control; and promotion of labour-intensive agriculture for the purpose of surplus production and extraction.

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Utgivningsdatum2002-06-30
Mått155 x 235 x 31 mm
Vikt812 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor390
FörlagSpringer Science+Business Media
ISBN9780306467721

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I. Introduction.- 1. Theorizing Variations in Andean Sociopolitical Organization.- II. Early Andean Civilizations.- 2. The Sechín Alto Complex and Its Place Within Casma Valley Initial Period Development.- 3. Out in the Streets of Moche: Urbanism and Sociopolitical Organization at a Moche IV Urban Center.- 4. Power and Social Ranking at the End of the Formative Period: The Lower Lurín Valley Cemeteries.- 5. Nasca Settlement and Society on the Hundredth Anniversary of Uhle's Discovery of the Nasca Style.- III. Traditions of Imperialism in the Andes.- 6. Tiwanaku Political Economy.- 7. Iwawi and Tiwanaku.- 8. Imperial Interaction in the Andes: Huari and Tiwanaku at Cerro Baúl.- 9. The Huaro Archaeological Site Complex: Rethinking the Huari Occupation of Cuzco.- 10. The Archaeology of Inca Origins: Excavations at Chokepukio, Cuzco, Peru.- 11. Catequil: The Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Ethnography of a Major Provincial Huaca.- IV. Solving Puzzles of the Past.- 12. Tracking the Source of Quispisisa Obsidian from Huancavelica to Ayacucho.- V. Conclusion.- 13. Writing the Andes with a Capital 'A'.

From the Reviews: "[...]these volumes stand as an excellent overview of current Andean archaeological research, outside the confines of a particular school or perspective. This is, to my knowledge, the first English-language edited overview of Andean archaeology to be produced in at least 10 years. Both volumes should be on the shelves of all Andean prehistorians and university libraries, and could also provide an introduction to current Andean research for archaeologists working in other places. For those who teach an undergraduate course on the prehistory of the Andes either or both books would provide an excellent, and conveniently packaged, selection of in-depth materials that could accompany a more general text. Those with a general interest in the prehistory of the Andes will find much detail in Silverman and Isbell's volumes. The authors are to be congratulated on such a wide-ranging collection, and here is hoping that their wish to add further volumes to the series is realized in the near future." (Ross W. Jamieson, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies)