To walk in order to remember… and to dominate: Inca Roads and Hegemonic Processes in Jauja, Central Highlands of Peru

Summary

Previous research on the Inca road system have generally developed functionalist perspectives on their associated characteristics and infrastructure, inherited in several cases from procesualist approaches that focused primarily on their economic and military role. However, more recent studies on the nature of the Inca state have varied substantially, granting an outstanding importance to ideology and religion as mechanisms of domination. Based on these considerations, this paper presents an approach to the role that would have been played by the roads in the strategies of domination and hegemonic processes established by the Incas in the region of Jauja in the central highlands of Peru. Based on a set of data obtained by the Qhapaq Ñan Project in that territory, I propose that the road system was thought of as a kind of technology of power in the Foucaultian sense of the term.

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• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 21798