Food behaviors, nutrition and identity under the Inka Empire : the Caringa people of Pueblo Viejo-Pucara, Peru / Maria Kolp-Godoy Allende.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kolp-Godoy Allende, Maria, author.

Series:

BAR international series ; 3129.

BAR international series ; 3129

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--Peru--History.

Food habits.

Nutrition--Peru--History.

Nutrition.

Incas--Nutrition--Peru.

Incas.

Incas--Peru--Antiquities.

Incas--Peru--Ethnic identity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 269 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Oxford : BAR Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

Pueblo Viejo-Pucara is one of the coastal archaeological sites that were ruled by the Inka Empire on the central coast of Peru, inhabited by the Caringa people. Labour colonists relocated to the site as part of Inka strategies of annexation of new territories, reducing local polities' power. Archaeological evidence points to connections between the Caringa people and highland communities. An unexplored line of evidence is people's food habits, identity, diet and nutrition. The way society prepares, serves, and eats its food is socio-culturally shaped. An integrative approach based on bioarchaeological, dental anthropological, biochemical, and ethnohistorical data is applied, revealing significant intra-site variability and food behaviours being dictated by people's identity and social status, additionally impacting childhood nutritional condition.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 19, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9781407359588

1407359584

OCLC:

1380437162