Empire and Domestic Economy (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)

The Upper Mantaro Archaeological Research Project, a multiyear program undertaken from the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, is a benchmark for a new level of quality in Andean archaeological research and has brought the theory and substance of research in the region to the attention of the larger archaeological community. This volume continues the UMARP tradition of developing innovative approaches to understanding prehistoric Andean economy and polity.

History

D'Altroy, Terence N.

Hastorf, Christine A.

Americas

Springer

Archaeologists have long been interested in the onset of political differentiation, and how this can be inferred from the archaeological record. Here Christine Hastorf looks at the nature of power and political diversity in the Andean region of central Peru over a thousand-year period, from AD 200 until the fifteenth-century Inka conquest. She argues that no single model or theory can usefully explain all social change, and that archaeologists should instead focus on a particular region to understand the context of change and why it occurred. She looks at political inequality from a number of different perspectives and suggests a series of 'cultural' principles that shaped political developments. She also traces changes in agricultural production, seeing them as contributing to social and political evolution in the region.

Agriculture and the Onset of Political Inequality before the Inka (New Studies in Archaeology)

Cambridge University Press

Scholars from the fields of archaeology, agronomy, genetics, linguistics and biochemistry address methodological, substantive, and interpretive aspects of understanding prehistoric maize. They examine traditional and new methods for analyzing archaeological maize and evaluating evolutionary relationships among maize types; evaluate patterns of prehistoric maize variation in South America, Mesoamerica, and North America; and explore the many cultural roles of maize in the rich texture of indigenous cultures.

Corn And Culture In The Prehistoric New World (University of Minnesota Publications in Anthropology, No 5)

Politics & Social Sciences

Johannessen, Sissel

Anthropology

Westview Press

<p>This book offers a global perspective on the role food has played in shaping human societies, through both individual and collective identities. It integrates ethnographic and archaeological case studies from the European and Near Eastern Neolithic, Han China, ancient Cahokia, Classic Maya, the Inka and many other periods and regions, to ask how the meal in particular has acted as a social agent in the formation of society, economy, culture and identity. Drawing on a range of social theorists, Hastorf provides a theoretical toolkit essential for any archaeologist interested in foodways. Studying the social life of food, this book engages with taste, practice, the meal and the body to discuss power, identity, gender and meaning that creates our world as it created past societies.</p>

The Social Archaeology of Food: Thinking about Eating from Prehistory to the Present

Archaeology

Social Sciences

D'Altroy, Terence N. N.

Heads of State: Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient and Modern Andes

The human head has had important political, ritual and symbolic meanings throughout Andean history. Scholars have spoken of captured and trophy heads, curated crania, symbolic flying heads, head imagery on pots and on stone, head-shaped vessels, and linguistic references to the head. In this synthesizing work, cultural anthropologist Denise Arnold and archaeologist Christine Hastorf examine the cult of heads in the Andes―past and present―to develop a theory of its place in indigenous cultural practice and its relationship to political systems. Using ethnographic and archaeological fieldwork, highland-lowland comparisons, archival documents, oral histories, and ritual texts, the authors draw from Marx, Mauss, Foucault, Assadourian, Viveiros del Castro and other theorists to show how heads shape and symbolize power, violence, fertility, identity, and economy in South American cultures.

Arnold, Denise Y.

Routledge

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