Powerful Places In The Ancient Andes

Synopsis

Andean Peoples Recognize Places As Neither Sacred Nor Profane, But Rather In Terms Of The Power They Emanate And The Identities They Materialize And Reproduce. This Book Argues That A Careful Consideration Of Andean Conceptions Of Powerful Places Is Critical Not Only To Understanding Andean Political And Religious History But To Rethinking Sociological Theories On Landscapes More Generally. The Contributors Evaluate Ethnographic And Ethnohistoric Analogies Against The Material Record To Illuminate The Ways Landscapes Were Experienced And Politicized Over The Last Three Thousand Years-- Introduction : Place, Landscape, And Power In The Ancient Andes And Andean Archaeology / Edward Swenson And Justin Jennings -- Mountains And Pachakutis : Ontology, Politics, Temporality / Peter Gose -- Rise Of The Cordillera Blanca : Orogeny And Imagination In Ancient Ancash, Peru / George Lau -- Landscape Biography Of A Powerful Place : Raqchi, Department Of Cuzco, Peru / Bill Sillar -- Cuni Raya Superhero : Ontologies Of Water On Peru's North Coast / Mary Weismantel -- Tiwanaku As Telluric Waterscape : Water And Stone In A Highland Andean City / John Wayne Janusek And Corey Bowen -- Sacrificial Landscapes And The Anatomy Of Moche Biopolitics / Edward Swenson -- Moving Between Homes : Landscape, Mobility, And Political Action In The Titicaca Basin / Andrew P. Roddick And John Wayne Janusek -- Ancestors, Animacy, And Archives : Dynamics Of Heterarchy In Pre-hispanic Northwest Argentina / Elizabeth Demarrais -- The View From The Top : The Materiality Of Mountainscapes And The Re-creation Of Society In The Andean Late Intermediate Period / Anna Guengerich -- A Moving Place : The Two-millennia-long Creation Of Quilcapampa / Justin Jennings, Stephen Berquist, Giles Spence-morrow, Peter Bikoulis, Felipe Gonzalez-macqueen, Willy Yépez Álvarez, And Stefanie Bautista. Edited By Justin Jennings And Edward R. Swenson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.