The Andean Civilizations

Author : John V. Murra
Publisher : Hau
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Andes Region
ISBN : 0997367555

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Reciprocity and Redistribution in Andean Civilizations by John V. Murra Pdf

John V. Murra's Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, originally given in 1969, are the only major study of the Andean "avenue towards civilization." Collected and published for the first time here, they offer a powerful and insistent perspective on the Andean region as one of the few places in which a so-called "pristine civilization" developed. Murra sheds light not only on the way civilization was achieved here--which followed a fundamentally different process than that of Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica--he uses that study to shed new light on the general problems of achieving civilization in any world region. Murra intermixes a study of Andean ecology with an exploration of the ideal of economic self-sufficiency, stressing two foundational socioeconomic forces: reciprocity and redistribution. He shows how both enabled Andean communities to realize direct control of a maximum number of vertically ordered ecological floors and the resources they offered. He famously called this arrangement a "vertical archipelago," a revolutionary model that is still examined and debated almost fifty years after it was first presented in these lecture. Written in a crisp and elegant style and inspired by decades of ethnographic fieldwork, this set of lectures is nothing less than a lost classic, and it will be sure to inspire new generations of anthropologists and historians working in South America and beyond.

Author : María Longhena,Walter Alva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Andes Region
ISBN : 1435100034

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The Incas and Other Ancient Andean Civilizations by María Longhena,Walter Alva Pdf

Author : Richard L. Burger
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0500278164

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Chavin and the Origins of Andean Civilization by Richard L. Burger Pdf

This is the first detailed up-to-date account in English of Chavin and its precursors. Based on the author's intimate knowledge of unprecedented discoveries made over the past two decades, including his own excavations at Chavin and elsewhere, it places special emphasis on the unique character of early Andean civilization and the distinctive processes responsible for its development. A wealth of photographs, drawings and maps accompany the text, including for this expanded edition a new section of color plates.

Author : Julian H. Steward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1035 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:901420448

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The Andean Civilizations by Julian H. Steward Pdf

Author : Gabriel Prieto,Daniel H. Sandweiss
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813057279

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Maritime Communities of the Ancient Andes by Gabriel Prieto,Daniel H. Sandweiss Pdf

Maritime Communities of the Ancient Andes examines how settlements along South America’s Pacific coastline played a role in the emergence, consolidation, and collapse of Andean civilizations from the Late Pleistocene era through Spanish colonization. Providing the first synthesis of data from Chile, Peru, and Ecuador, this wide-ranging volume evaluates and revises long-standing research on ancient maritime sites across the region. These essays look beyond the subsistence strategies of maritime communities and their surroundings to discuss broader anthropological issues related to social adaptation, monumentality, urbanism, and political and religious change. Among many other topics, the evidence in this volume shows that the maritime industry enabled some urban communities to draw on marine resources in addition to agriculture, ensuring their success. During the Colonial period, many fishermen were exempt from paying tributes to the Spanish, and their specialization helped them survive as the Andean population dwindled. Contributors also consider the relationship between fishing and climate change—including weather patterns like El Niño. The research in this volume demonstrates that communities situated close to the sea and its resources should be seen as critical components of broader social, economic, and ideological dynamics in the complex history of Andean cultures. A volume in the series Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology, edited by Victor D. Thompson

Author : Julian Haynes Steward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1035 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0815402139

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The Andean Civilizations by Julian Haynes Steward Pdf

Author : Julian Haynes Steward,United States. Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific and Cultural Cooperation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1035 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Indians of South America
ISBN : OCLC:253594716

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The Andean Civilizations by Julian Haynes Steward,United States. Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific and Cultural Cooperation Pdf

Author : Julian Haynes Steward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1270 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : NYPL:33433006015642

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Handbook of South American Indians: The Andean civilizations by Julian Haynes Steward Pdf

Author : Joyce Marcus,Patrick Ryan Williams
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770364

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Andean Civilization by Joyce Marcus,Patrick Ryan Williams Pdf

This volume brings together exciting new field data by more than two dozen Andean scholars who came together to honor their friend, colleague, and mentor. These new studies cover the enormous temporal span of Moseley's own work from the Preceramic era to the Tiwanaku and Moche states to the Inka empire. And, like Moseley's own studies -- from Maritime Foundations of Andean Civilization to Chan Chan: The Desert City to Cerro Baul's brewery -- these new studies involve settlements from all over the Andes -- from the far northern highlands to the far southern coast. An invaluable addition to any Andeanist's library, the papers in this book demonstrate the enormous breadth and influence of Moseley's work and the vibrant range of exciting new work by his former students and collaborators in fieldwork.

Author : Alan L. Kolata
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1993-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557861832

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The Tiwanaku by Alan L. Kolata Pdf

The Tiwanaku The city of Tiwanaku lies ruined in the rugged Andean steppe of Bolivia twelve thousand feet above sea level, the highest urban settlement of the ancient world. Its wide streets open towards ramparts of glaciated mountain peaks and the intense blue waters of Lake Titicaca. Gigantic stone sculptures and shattered architectural blocks suggest profound antiquity and the passage of great events, now lost and unremembered. Here, two and a half thousand years ago, a distinct society emerged which over the course of thirteen centuries developed one of the greatest civilizations and the first empire of the ancient Americas. This book, the first published history of the Tiwanakan peoples from their origins to their present survival, is a feat of scholarly and archaeological detection undertaken and led by the author. Alan Kolata draws together the evidence of historical documents from the time of the Iberian conquest, accounts and legends of the contemporary inhabitants, and the results of extensive excavations in order to provide a narrative covering three thousand years. In doing so he addresses and explains features of Tiwanakan culture that have long puzzled scholars: the origins of their uniquely massive architecture, the nature of their sophisticated hydraulically-engineered agriculture, their obsession with decapitation and the display of severed heads, and not least the reasons for their mysterious and sudden decline at the end of the tenth century. The book is illustrated throughout with photographs, maps and drawings, and is fully referenced and indexed. Although written to appeal to the nonspecialist and assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, this is a book of scholarly import, and likely to become the standard work for many years.

Author : Julian Haynes Steward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1280 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Indians of South America
ISBN : IND:30000003508417

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Handbook of South American Indians by Julian Haynes Steward Pdf

Author : Michael Edward Moseley
Publisher : Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105031600609

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The Maritime Foundations of Andean Civilization by Michael Edward Moseley Pdf

Author : William H. Isbell,Helaine Silverman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461506393

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Andean Archaeology I by William H. Isbell,Helaine Silverman Pdf

Study of the origin and development of civilization is of unequaled importance for understanding the cultural processes that create human societies. Is cultural evolution directional and regular across human societies and history, or is it opportunistic and capricious? Do apparent regularities come from the way inves tigators construct and manage knowledge, or are they the result of real constraints on and variations in the actual processes? Can such questions even be answered? We believe so, but not easily. By comparing evolutionary sequences from different world civilizations scholars can judge degrees of similarity and difference and then attempt explanation. Of course, we must be careful to assess the influence that societies of the ancient world had on one another (the issue of pristine versus non-pristine cultural devel opment: see discussion in Fried 1967; Price 1978). The Central Andes were the locus of the only societies to achieve pristine civilization in the southern hemi sphere and only in the Central Andes did non-literate (non-written language) civ ilization develop. It seems clear that Central Andean civilization was independent on any graph of archaic culture change. Scholars have often expressed appreciation of the research opportunities offered by the Central Andes as a testing ground for the study of cultural evolu tion (see, e. g. , Carneiro 1970; Ford and Willey 1949: 5; Kosok 1965: 1-14; Lanning 1967: 2-5).

Author : Kevin J. Vaughn
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816527067

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The Ancient Andean Village by Kevin J. Vaughn Pdf

Although ancient civilizations in the Andes are rich in historyÑwith expansive empires, skilled artisans, and vast temple centersÑthe history of the Andean foothills on the south coast of present-day Peru is only now being unveiled. Nasca, a prehispanic society that flourished there from AD 1 to 750, is best known for its polychrome pottery, its enigmatic geoglyphs (the "Nasca Lines"), and its ceremonial center, Cahuachi, which was the seat of power in early Nasca. However, despite the fact that archaeologists have studied Nasca civilization for more than a century, until now they have not pieced together the daily lives of Nasca residents. With this book, Kevin Vaughn offers the first portrait of village life in this ancient Andean society. Vaughn is interested in how societies develop and change, in particular their subsistence and political economies, interactions between elites and commoners, and the ritual activities of everyday life. By focusing on one village, Marcaya, he not only illuminates the lives and relationships of its people but he also contributes to an understanding of the more general roles played by villages in the growth of increasingly complex societies in the Andes. By examining agency in local affairs, he is able for the first time to explore the nature of power in Nasca and how it may have changed over time. By studying village and household activities, Vaughn argues, we can begin to appreciate from the ground up such essential activities as production, consumption, and the ideologies revealed by ritualsÑand thereby gain fresh insights into ancient civilizations.

Author : Jonathan Haas,Shelia Pozorski,Thomas Pozorski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1987-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0521331021

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The Origins and Development of the Andean State by Jonathan Haas,Shelia Pozorski,Thomas Pozorski Pdf

This volume brings together research on the evolution of civilisation in the Andean region of South America from the work of sixteen leading scholars, at one time actively engaged in fieldwork in Peru. Beginning with early chiefdom societies living along the Peruvian coast 2000 years before Christ, the authors trace the growing complexity of Andean states and empires over the next 3000 years. They examine the accomplishments of the ancient Andeans in the rise of magnificent monumental architecture and the construction of unparalleled prehistoric irrigation systems. They also look at the dominant role of warfare in Andean societies and at the collapse of empires in the millennia before the arrival of the Spanish in 1534. Together, the contributors provide the first systematic study of the evolution of polities along the dry coastal plains and high mountain valleys of the Peruvian Andes.