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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-- 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 Lan

Author

Justin Jennings; Edward R. Swenson

Publisher

University of New Mexico Press Published in Association with School for Advanced Research Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826359940

Subjects

History, Sociology, Philosophy