Rituals of the Past Prehispanic and Colonial Case Studies in Andean Archaeology / edited by Silvana A. Rosenfeld and Stefanie L. Bautista.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bautista, Stefanie L., editor.

Rosenfeld, Silvana A., editor.

Knowledge Unlatched, Funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Peru.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Andes Region.

Indians of South America--Peru--Rites and ceremonies.

Indians of South America.

Indians of South America--Andes Region--Rites and ceremonies.

Peru--Antiquities.

Peru.

Andes Region--Antiquities.

Andes Region.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Explores various methods archaeologists use to identify ritual in the material record and discusses the influence it had on the formation, reproduction, and transformation of community in past Andean societies. How ritual influenced, permeated, and altered political authority, economic production, shamanic practice, and landscape cognition over 3,000 years"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

An archaeology of rituals / Silvana A. Rosenfeld and Stefanie L. Bautista

The nature of ritual space at Chavín de Huantar / John Rick

Not just a pyramid scheme : diversity in ritual architecture at Chavín de Huantar / Daniel Contreras

From ritual to ideology : ritual activity and artistic representations in the northern highlands of Peru in the formative period / Yoshio Onuki

Architecture and ritual practices at Huaca A of Pampa de las Llamas- Moxeke / Rafael Vega-Centeno

Territoriality, monumentality, and religion in formative period Nepeña, coastal Áncash / David Chicoine, Hugo Ikebara, and Koichiro Shibata, and Matthew Helmer

Ritual practice at the end of empire : evidence of an abandonment ceremony from Pataraya, a Wari outpost on the south coast of Peru /

Matthew Edwards

From the domestic to the formal : a view of daily and ceremonial practices from Cerro de Oro during the early middle horizon / Francesca Fernandini and Rafael Ruales

The demise of the ruling elites : terminal rituals in the pyramid complexes of Panquilma, Peruvian central coast / Camila Capriata Estrada and Enrique Lopez-Hurtado

Reconstructing early colonial Andean ritual practice at Pucará, Peru : an architectural approach / Sarah Abraham

Ritual as inter-action with non-humans : pre-hispanic mountain pass shrines in the southern Andes / Axel Nielsen, Carlos Angiorama, and Florencia Avila

Mining, ritual, and social memory : an exploration of toponymy in the Ica Valley, Peru / Hendrik van Gijseghem and Verity Whalen

Rituals of the past : final comments / Jerry D. Moore.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781607327240

1607327244

9781607325963

1607325969

OCLC:

976434040

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access