Wari (Culture Keyword)
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This resource is an application for a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This book emerges from debates over which pre-Hispanic Andean polities were empires and how imperial policies impacted individual and community well-being. Across world prehistory, empires accelerated immigration. Since mismatches between human and burial site isotope values provide the only direct evidence of individual immigration, I leverage skeletal and environmental 87Sr/86Sr data from my...
The Archaeology of Wak'as: Explorations of the Sacred in the Pre-Columbian Andes (2015)
In this edited volume, Andean wak'as—idols, statues, sacred places, images, and oratories—play a central role in understanding Andean social philosophies, cosmologies, materialities, temporalities, and constructions of personhood. Top Andean scholars from a variety of disciplines cross regional, theoretical, and material boundaries in their chapters, offering innovative methods and theoretical frameworks for interpreting the cultural particulars of Andean ontologies and notions of the...
Space-Time Perspectives on Early Colonial Moquegua (2013)
In this rich study of the construction and reconstruction of a colonized landscape, Prudence M. Rice takes an implicit political ecology approach in exploring encounters of colonization in Moquegua, a small valley of southern Peru. Building on theories of spatiality, spatialization, and place, she examines how politically mediated human interaction transformed the physical landscape, the people who inhabited it, and the resources and goods produced in this poorly known area. Space-Time...