..., favoring vertical integration of Andean peoples with the state; the Spaniards removed those barriers and emphasized commonalities, favoring a horizontal integration of social groups with each other. This structuring of ethnogenesis is illustrated by Saraguro, Ecuador, where people of disparate ethnic...

... extend to issues of inner and structural essences. An Andean par- allel exists in the animating force of camac. The essay shows that Q’enqo and other dual rock art sites materialized aspects of Inka social and spatial divisions. While the Inka state organized the empire into complex and overlapping...

... findings provide a significant contribution toward the ongoing decipherment of nonnumerical khipu signs. [email protected] Copyright 2024 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2024 khipu (quipu) decipherment moieties Andean social structures combinatorics Khipus...

... speaks of Christian friars, especially Franciscans, intruding into Andean rural life in the Colca Valley and shows how their presence influenced and changed the Andean land- scape and structures. Chapters 6 and 7, using analysis of ethnohistoric sources from the same area...

... that connected them to each other and to regions beyond. I theorize that, although there were important differences as social sys- tems, Northern Andean and Quijos polities exhibited similar structural principles and the mutual articulation of relations in which symmetrical exchange—as opposed to vertical...

... political economy: a focus on tributary labor, the absence of money, and the limited role of barter. Murra then devoted much of his fourth lecture, “Structural Changes in Tawantinsuyu prior to the European Invasion,” to the social innovations that accompanied Andean empire. The Incas created new social...

... a Christian subjectivity that occupied the inner space of Andean children’s lives. In the aftermath of the Andean insurrections, the Bourbons strove to regain cultural and social control of Amerindians. In his Breves apuntes para la descripción del partido de Huaraz , the creole “subdelegado” Felipe...

... social history in ways not possible through other means. American Society for Ethnohistory 2002 Abercrombie, Thomas 1998a Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History among an Andean People . Madison:University of Wisconsin Press. 1998b Tributes to Bad Conscience: Charity...

... of the precolumbian civilizations leading up to the Inca Empire, the political orga- nization of that empire, the social organization of the Inca (and Andean) peoples, the sources available to scholars for the study of Inca myths, and Inca...

... parallel to and sepa- rate from Christian customs, a social formation in which a cult to Andean deities (huacas) explicitly rejected the Christian sacraments and certain ele- ments of Spanish everyday life (such as food...

... useful for discerning trends in the writing of Andean histories, despite the con- tributors’ overwhelmingly social historical approaches. Cultural history is more an ingredient than cynosure—probably to the good—while long- overlooked urban groups finally receive their due. The history...

... argument that the Andean khipu should be considered graphic, Gary Urton (this volume, 135– 164) argues that the khipu were “number-based texts in knotted cords.” Both the khipu and the fur worn to mark clan identity are intended to be interpreted, then, but perhaps not “read” in the same sense...

... lords) from various regions of Peru, he asked for the creation of a knightly order emblematic of their social equality with the Spanish nobles (Dueñas 2010 ). The “Cédula de Honores” resulted from cross-regional legal campaigns under the leadership of the noble Andean and mestizo from Arequipa Juan...

... descriptions of Andean refining technologies and the introduction of colonial amalgamation methods. The text is structured along those metallurgical lines, as the first half (75–111) covers the region before amalgamation, while the second half (115–89) explains the technology’s scientific and social...

... site of Sacsayhuamán, where I witnessed hundreds of Cusqueños rushing to the mammoth rocks of the structure, placing their Myth, Globalization, and Mestizaje in New Age Andean Religion 269 hands on the rocks to receive their energía. In a conversation with a young architect about...

... and Mary In this marvelously illustrated and learned exploration of art and his- tory, Carolyn Dean analyzes the Corpus Christi processions of midcolonial Cuzco and their painted commemorations. In the process, the author takes us a long way toward solving one of the central riddles of Andean colonial...

... . Quilter Jeffrey Urton Gary , eds. 2002 Narrative Threads: Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu . Austin : University of Texas Press . Rappaport Joanne Cummins Tom 1994 Literacy and Power in Colonial Latin America . In Social Constructions of the Past: Representation...

... understanding of the vision of the vanquished. Reference 1993 Barnes, Monica, and Daniel Slive. ‘‘El puma de Cuzco Revista Andina 11 (1): 79–102. Andean Worlds: Indigenous History, Culture...

... peoples. Thus, despite some overemphasis on archaeological rem- nants, such as Izumi Shimada’s essay on the early regional development of the Andeans, even the pre-Columbian portions of the first volume come Tseng 2003.12.12 06:08 211...

... paper.) Karoline P. Cook, University of Southern California What can “talking books” and ancestor cults tell us about encounters in the Andes? Both Gonzalo Lamana and Peter Gose strive to reconceptualize the Spanish invasion of Peru from the perspective of Andean peoples. Lamana narrows his...