Transformations in ritual practice and social interaction on the Tiwanaku periphery

Antiquity ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 88 (341) ◽  
pp. 851-862 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Albarracin-Jordan ◽  
José M. Capriles ◽  
Melanie J. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Central Andes ◽  
Ritual Practice ◽  
Psychoactive Substances ◽  
Middle Horizon ◽  
Local Elites ◽  
Early States ◽  
Local Elite ◽  
South Central ◽  
Ritual Practices

Ritual practices and their associated material paraphernalia played a key role in extending the reach and ideological impact of early states. The discovery of a leather bag containing snuffing tablets and traces of psychoactive substances at Cueva del Chileno in the southern Andes testifies to the adoption of Tiwanaku practices by emergent local elites. Tiwanaku control spread over the whole of the south-central Andes during the Middle Horizon (AD 500–1100) but by the end of the period it had begun to fragment into a series of smaller polities. The bag had been buried by an emergent local elite who chose at this time to relinquish the former Tiwanaku ritual practices that its contents represent.

scholarly journals Colors and dyes of archaeological textiles from Tarapacá in the Atacama Desert (South Central Andes)

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcela Sepúlveda ◽  
Cecilia Lemp Urzúa ◽  
José Cárcamo-Vega ◽  
Edgar Casanova-Gónzalez ◽  
Sebastián Gutiérrez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Physicochemical Characterization ◽  
Atacama Desert ◽  
Central Andes ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Animal Origin ◽  
Carminic Acid ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
South Central

AbstractThis work concerns the study of colors and dyes identified on archaeological textiles from the Atacama Desert. The different garments and ornaments come from the excavation of two important pre-Columbian cemeteries of the Tarapacá region: Tarapacá-40 attributed to the Formative period (1100 BC–660 AD) and Pica-8 to the Late Intermediate period (900–1450 AD). For the first time, a multi-analytical approach with non-invasive techniques using FORS and SERS was applied on samples of less than 2 cm of length for physicochemical characterization of the raw materials and the dyes employed in the textile production of northern Chile. The fibers are from animal origin. Blue, green, and yellow are identified as indigo, but we cannot discard a mixture with other dyes to vary hue and shade; while carminic acid and alizarin—to a lesser extent—are found on red, orange, and brown samples. This research provides new elements for the discussion about the textile technology developed in this desertic region, its changes, and continuities along the history. Our results are compared to recent findings on neighboring regions from South-Central Andes, to improve the current knowledge and discuss the existence of dyeing textile cultural traditions.

Exploring habitat diversity of mid-holocene hunter-gatherers in the South-Central Andes: Multi-proxy analysis of Cruces Core 1 (TC1), Dry Puna of Jujuy, Argentina

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 708-721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo R. Morales ◽  
Sabrina Bustos ◽  
Brenda I. Oxman ◽  
Malena Pirola ◽  
Pablo Tchilinguirian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Diversity ◽  
Central Andes ◽  
The South ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
South Central

scholarly journals Praktik Pernikahan dalam Masyarakat Lokal: Agensi versus Agama

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-52
Author(s):  
Budiman Pohan ◽  
Muhamad Fadhil Nurdin
Keyword(s):  
Observational Data ◽  
Study Design ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Local Elites ◽  
Case Study Design ◽  
Local Elite ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Dialectical Process

This study aims to describe the dialectical process between local agents and religious structures in the practice of marriage in Padang Sidempuan. The research method is qualitative descriptive with a case study design that focuses on narrating the objective conditions of agent and structure duality. Informants were chosen purposively, supported by observational data, interviews, and documentation. Data analyzed through the process of collection, reduction, exposition, verification, and conclusion. The results showed that: 1) Conceptually, the practice of marriage experienced practical distortions that were configured through consensus of sharia and local elites; 2) the practice of marriage is a phenomenon of the duality of agents and structuring each other; 3) agent habitus is dominated by Mandailing culture through power relations and surplus capital of the local elite compared to the sharia procedure of religious structure. However, the competence of agents is able to compress marital rules into semi-complex; 4) the importance of promoting religious habituation strategies through internalization and dissemination of alternative sharia marriage practices.

scholarly journals INTERACTUEMOS NOSOTROS TAMBIÉN A PANORAMA OF CERAMIC RESEARCH FROM THE SOUTH-CENTRAL ANDES

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-352
Author(s):  
Emily Stovel ◽  
María Beatriz Cremonte ◽  
Vivien G Standen
Keyword(s):  
Central Andes ◽  
The South ◽  
South Central

Yavi-Chicha and the Inka expansion: a petrographic approach

Antiquity ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 88 (342) ◽  
pp. 1261-1274 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Beatriz Cremonte
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Central Andes ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Petrographic Analysis ◽  
The South ◽  
Local Identities ◽  
South Central ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
The Social

The social complexities underlying imperial control are manifest in the material culture of everyday life encountered at archaeological sites. The Yavi-Chicha pottery style of the south-central Andes illustrates how local identities continued to be expressed in practices of pottery manufacture during the process of Inka expansion. The Yavi-Chicha style itself masks a number of distinct production processes that can be traced through petrographic analysis and that relate to the different communities by whom it was produced and consumed. The dispersion of pottery fabric types in this region may partly be attributable to the Inka practice of mitmaqkuna, the displacement and relocation of entire subject populations.

Making textiles into persons: Gestural sequences and relationality in communities of weaving practice of the South Central Andes

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Y Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Central Andes ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Relational Ontology ◽  
South Central ◽  
Technical Practice ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Being

The complex social and technical dimensions of weaving in contemporary Andean communities of practice are examined to suggest how these might have evolved so that populations could coordinate and make sense of their daily tasks in an emerging biocultural space. Rejecting former constructivist epistemological biases in operational studies of working practice, the article explores an alternative approach where technical practice is given meaning through ways of being in the world, and where common sense-making derives from the idea that textiles are living beings. The nurturing processes of a relational ontology where ‘making’ is ‘growing’ are traced in the patterns of learning and their gestural sequencing in weaving communities, in winding instruments that intercalate productive spheres and in finished textiles that express productive yields.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document