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Title Powerful places in the ancient Andes / edited by Justin Jennings and Edward R. Swenson
Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (x, 446 pages)
Series Archaeologies of landscape in the Americas series
Contents 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
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 07, 2018)
Subject Human ecology -- Andes Region
Place (Philosophy) -- Social aspects -- Andes Region
Indians of South America -- Andes Region -- Social life and customs
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- General.
Human ecology
Indians of South America -- Social life and customs
Andes Region
Form Electronic book
Author Jennings, Justin, editor
Swenson, Edward, editor
LC no. 2018022432
ISBN 9780826359957
0826359957