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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795327003321

Autore

Arnold Dean E. <1942->

Titolo

Retracing Inka steps : adventures in ethnoarchaeology / / Dean E Arnold

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Salt Lake City : , : The University of Utah Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

9781647690250

9781647690243

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 pages)

Disciplina

985.01088042

Soggetti

Incas - Social life and customs

Incas - Civilization

Anthropologists

Ayacucho (Peru : Department) Social life and customs

Ayacucho (Peru : Department) Antiquities

Peru Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The adventure of field work -- Beginning the journey : an aerial introduction -- The challenges of rural life -- Engaging a changed research design -- Engaging an Andean city -- Retracing Inka steps -- The navel of the Inka world -- Nearing my destination -- Returning to Cusco -- Returning to Ayacucho -- The end of the journey.

Sommario/riassunto

"Dean Arnold's project is based on ethnographic and ethnoarchaeological fieldwork he conducted in highland Peru as a graduate student. He used participant-observation as a primary way to collect data and information. He was specifically interested in ceramic production from known villages and their forms, designs, materials usage, and the movement of pottery produced there"--