E pur si muove: Exploring Mobilities in Latin America
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)
Throughout history, Latin America has been the scene of a remarkable mobility of people, animals, things, ideas, languages, and even entire communities. Mobility, however, is an elusive research topic that is "as much about meaning as it is about mappable and calculable movement" (Cresswell 2011:551). Mobilities shape physical and cultural landscapes, and at the same time they are bound up with the production and negotiation of power relationships. As such, when attempting to reconstruct the dynamics of movement in the past, not one single discipline can fully untangle the complex interplay between motion, situation, context, and meaning. This session will therefore explore archaeological approaches that integrate historical, ethnographic, biological, geographical, linguistic, and other methodologies to reconstruct the social and economic dimensions of mobility politics in Latin America.
Other Keywords
Mobility •
andes •
Mesoamerica •
Trade •
Textiles •
Exchange •
Territoriality •
Pastoralism •
Colonialism •
Gis
Geographic Keywords
South America •
Mesoamerica
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- A Bioarchaeological Approach to Ychsma Regional Interactions: Stable Oxygen and Radiogenic Strontium Isotopes and Late Intermediate Period Mobility on the Central Peruvian Coast (2016)
- From herders to wage-laborers and back again: mountain mobility in the Puna of Atacama, northern Chile. (2016)
- Itinerancy and pottery production in the Andes (2016)
- Movement of Goods and Ideas in Early Formative Western and Central Mesoamerica: New Evidence from Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico (2016)
- Moving the Animal: Camelid Herding on the North Coast of Peru and the Temporalities of Human-Animal Interactions during the Moche Period (2016)
- Paths and plants: territory and mobility among the Laklãnõ/Xokleng in Brazil (2016)
- Surveillance and control in a landscape of war: An examination of mobility and fortification in the Colca Valley, Peru (2016)
- Textile conceptual ideas as mobility indicators between highlands and coast, Central Andes, c. 200BC-600AD (2016)
- To move mountains: cycles of indigenous mobility and resettlement in highland Mexico (2016)
- Volcanic Glass and Iron Nails: Shifting Networks of Exchange at Postclassic and Colonial Achiutla, Oaxaca, Mexico (2016)