Constructions of time and history in the pre-Columbian Andes / edited by Edward Swenson and Andrew Roddick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Swenson, Edward, editor.

Roddick, Andrew P., editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of South America--Andes Region--Antiquities.

Indians of South America.

Archaeology and history.

Memory--Social aspects.

History.

Memory.

Time--Social aspects.

Andes Region.

Antiquities.

Time--Social aspects--Andes Region--History.

Time.

Memory--Social aspects--Andes Region--History.

Archaeology and history--Andes Region.

Indians of South America--Antiquities.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2018]

Summary:

"Explores archaeological approaches to temporalities, social memory, and constructions of history in the pre-Columbian Andes. Examining a range of indigenous temporal experiences and ideologies, including astronomical, cyclical, generational, eschatological, and mythical time to challenge outmoded theories while building on an emic perspective to gain greater understanding"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : Rethinking temporality and historicity from the perspective of Andean archaeology / Edward Swenson and Andrew Roddick

The historicity of the "early horizon' / Matthew Sayre

Disordering the chronotope and visualizing inhabitation in the Lake Titicaca Basin / Andrew P. Roddick

The past as kin : materiality and time in Inka landscapes / Darryl Wilkinson and Terence D'Altroy

Past-forward past making : late pre-hispanic and early colonial Andean historicities / Zach Chase

Topologies of time and history in Jequetepeque, Peru / Edward Swenson

Scaling the Huaca : synecdochal temporalities and the mimetic materialization of late Moche timescapes / Giles Spence-Morrow

Hitching the present to the stars : the architecture of time and space in the ancient Andes / Francisco Seoane and María José Culquichicón-Venegas

Archaeology, temporal complexity, and the politics of time / Tamara L. Bray.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781607326410

1607326418

OCLC:

992689064

Publisher Number:

99975930701