Pubbl/distr/stampa	Iowa City : , : University of Iowa Press, , 1993
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (189 p.)
Disciplina	980/.01
Soggetto topico	Indian architecture - Andes Region Indians of South America - Andes Region - Antiquities Architecture, Domestic - Andes Region - History Tiwanaku culture
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-58729-001-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; 1. Domestic Architecture, Household Archaeology, and the Past in the South-Central Andes; 2. Domestic Space, Mobility, and Ecological Complementarity: The View from Asana; 3. House, Community, and State in the Earliest Tiwanaku Colony: Domestic Patterns and State Integration at Omo M12, Moquegua; 4. An Archaeological Study of Social Structure and Ethnic Replacement in Residential Architecture of the Tumilaca Valley; 5. Domestic Architecture of the Estuquiña Phase: Estuquiña and San Antonio; 6. Late Intermediate Period Domestic Architecture and Residential Organization at La Yaral 7. Domestic Architecture on Lupaqa Area Sites in the Department of Puno8. Spatial Dimensions of Complementary Resource Utilization at Acha-2 and San Lorenzo; 9. Late Intermediate Period Architecture of Lukurmata; 10. Continuity and Change in Household Life at Lukurmata; 11. Torata Alta: A Late Highland Settlement in the Osmore Drainage; 12. South-Central Andean Domestic Architecture: A View from the South; Notes on the Contributors; References Cited; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910456451403321

Autore	Arnold Denise Y.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London : , : Routledge, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (294 p.)
Disciplina	323.1198
Altri autori (Persone)	HastorfChristine Ann <1950->
Soggetto topico	Indians of South America - Andes Region - Politics and government Indians of South America - Andes Region - Kings and rulers Indians of South America - Andes Region - Antiquities Head - Political aspects - Andes Region Head - Religious aspects - Andes Region
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-315-42756-7 1-315-42757-5 1-59874-800-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Headhunting in the Andes; Methods and the Organization of the Book; Part I - The Ethnography of Andean Head Taking and Power; 1. Heads in Small-scale Polities; 2. The Captured Fetish, the Mountain Chest, and Sacrifice; 3. Drinking the Power of the Dead; 4. The Nested Power of Modern Andean Hierarchies; Part II - The Archaeology of Andean Head Taking and Power; 5. Heads and the Consolidation of Andean Political Power; 6. Heads and Andean Political Change from an Archaeological Perspective; 7. Central Andean Political Developments 8. ConclusionsAppendixes; Sites and Toponyms Mentioned in the Text; Andean Cultural Sequences; Glossary; Notes; References; Index; About the Authors
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910458049903321

Autore	Besom Thomas <1960->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (329 p.)
Disciplina	299.8/8323
Soggetto topico	Incas - Rites and ceremonies Incas - Religion Incas - Politics and government Human sacrifice - Andes Region Mountains - Religious aspects
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-299-47545-0 0-8263-5308-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Introduction; 1: Symbols, Ideology, Ritual, and Power; 2: Ethnohistoric Data on Human Sacrifice and Mountain Worship; 3: The Archaeological Materials from Cerro Esmeralda; 4: Discussion of the Materials from Cerro Esmeralda; 5: The Archaeology of Cerro El Plomo and the Santiago Area; 6: Discussion of the Archaeological Materials from Cerro El Plomo and the Santiago Area; 7: Discussion of the Anthropomorphic Statuettes; 8: Conclusions; Epilogue; Appendix A: Results of Segmental Hair Analysis Appendix B: Typical Inka VesselsNotes; Glossary of Andean Names and Terms; References; Index; Back Cover
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910452677603321

Autore	Christie Jessica Joyce <1956->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (317 p.)
Disciplina	709.01/13098
Soggetto topico	Incas - Antiquities Incas - Religion Petroglyphs - Andes Region Outcrops (Geology) - Andes Region
ISBN	0-7391-9489-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Notes on Orthography and Terminology; Introduction; Ch01. Formal and Structural Analysis of Inka Carved Rocks; Ch02. Carved Rock Complexes or Groups of Carved Rocks in Specific Contexts; Ch03. The Birthplace of the Sun,Moon, and the Inka Ancestorson the Island of the Sun and theSouthern Basin of Lake Titicaca; Ch04. Inka Pacariqtambo-A Landscape of Power Relations through Time; Ch05. Machu Picchu; Ch06. Chinchero; Ch07. Discussion and Conclusions; Afterword; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910797718003321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Boulder : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2017
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (322 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Disciplina	985/.01
Soggetto topico	Excavations (Archaeology) - Peru Excavations (Archaeology) - Andes Region Indians of South America - Peru - Rites and ceremonies Indians of South America - Andes Region - Rites and ceremonies
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-60732-724-4 1-60732-596-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	An archaeology of rituals / Silvana A. Rosenfeld and Stefanie L. Bautista -- The nature of ritual space at Chavín de Huantar / John Rick -- Not just a pyramid scheme : diversity in ritual architecture at Chavín de Huantar / Daniel Contreras -- From ritual to ideology : ritual activity and artistic representations in the northern highlands of Peru in the formative period / Yoshio Onuki -- Architecture and ritual practices at Huaca A of Pampa de las Llamas- Moxeke / Rafael Vega-Centeno -- Territoriality, monumentality, and religion in formative period Nepeña, coastal Áncash / David Chicoine, Hugo Ikebara, and Koichiro Shibata, and Matthew Helmer -- Ritual practice at the end of empire : evidence of an abandonment ceremony from Pataraya, a Wari outpost on the south coast of Peru / -- Matthew Edwards -- From the domestic to the formal : a view of daily and ceremonial practices from Cerro de Oro during the early middle horizon / Francesca Fernandini and Rafael Ruales -- The demise of the ruling elites : terminal rituals in the pyramid complexes of Panquilma, Peruvian central coast / Camila Capriata Estrada and Enrique Lopez-Hurtado -- Reconstructing early colonial Andean ritual practice at Pucará, Peru : an architectural approach / Sarah Abraham -- Ritual as inter-action with non-humans : pre-hispanic mountain pass shrines in the southern Andes / Axel Nielsen, Carlos Angiorama, and Florencia Avila -- Mining, ritual, and social memory : an exploration of toponymy in the Ica Valley, Peru / Hendrik van Gijseghem and Verity Whalen -- Rituals of the past : final comments / Jerry D. Moore.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910169192403321