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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Table -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Adoration of Infrastructures -- 1.2 Broader Theoretical Relevance of the Study -- 1.3 Bridging Theories with Infrastructures: Trilectic Archaeologies -- 1.4 Organization of the Volume -- 2 Excavating the Theoretical Landscape: The Archaeological Search for Significance -- 2.1 Introduction: The Semiotics of Archaeological Analysis |
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2.2 A Brief Introduction to Peirce's Semeiotics and the Search for "Meaningfully Constituted Worlds" in Archaeological Research -- 2.3 Rehabilitating Representation -- 2.4 New Materialist Ontologies and Ontological Alterity -- 2.5 Ideology vs. Ontology -- 2.6 Symbolism and Semiotic Ideologies in the Making of Worlds -- 2.7 Assemblage Theory and the Making of Place -- 2.8 Lefebvre's Unitary Space -- 2.9 Conclusion -- 3 Sublime Infrastructures: Emplacing Ritual, Religion, and Power -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Ritual's Distinct Material Frame and Placedness -- 3.3 Ritual as a Medium of Power |
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3.3.1 The Sacred: Ultimate Source of Power, Metaphor of Difference -- 3.3.2 Ritual as Knowledge, Efficacious Act, Crucible of Transformation, and Site of Experimentation -- 3.3.3 Ritual as Social Identification and Medium of Identity Politics -- 3.3.4 Ritual as Ideology -- 3.3.5 The Emotional Nexus of Ritual Dramaturgy: Ritual as Structure, Hegemony, and the Materialization of Aesthetics -- 3.3.6 Ritual as Heightened Consciousness and Political Resistance -- 3.3.7 The Assembling Power of Ritual -- 3.4 Ritual, Place-Making, and Infrastructures -- 3.4.1 Religious Landscapes as Thirdspaces |
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3.4.2 Archaeologies of Infrastructures -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4 Ceremonial Architecture as Semiotic Machines -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Ritual, Semiotic Mediators, and Ontological Alterity -- 4.3 The Materiality of Ritual Semiotics: Structured Depositions as Bundled and Condensed Assemblages -- 4.3.1 Repetition -- 4.3.2 Dicentization/Substitution -- 4.3.3 Symbolic Accumulation -- 4.4 Conclusion: Temples as Machines -- 5 Sacred Infrastructures and Rituals of Place-Making in the Ancient Andes -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Andean Conceived Space and Ideologies of Place |
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5.2.1 The Ontological Indivisibility of the Monumental, Infrastructural, and Sacred in the Andes -- 5.2.2 Synecdochal Geographies, Concentric Dualism, and Ideologies of the Centre -- 5.2.3 (Re)Territorializing Andean Sacred Landscapes -- 5.3 Variation in Andean Religious Landscapes -- 5.4 Concluding Thoughts -- 6 A Tale of Three Temples: The Changing Religious Landscape of the Southern Jequetepeque Valley, Peru -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Brief Introduction to the Jequetepeque Valley and the Cañoncillo Region -- 6.3 Jatanca |
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Electronic book
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9780429356063 |
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0429356064 |
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