%0 Book Section
%B Foundations of power in the prehispanic Andes
%D 2005
%T Power and the Emergence of Complex Polities in the Peruvian Preceramic
%A Haas, Jonathan
%A Winifred Creamer
%A Alvaro Ruiz
%E Vaughn, Kevin J.
%E Ogburn, Dennis E.
%E Conlee, Christina Ann
%C Arlington, Va.
%I American Anthropological Association
%K Chiefdoms Andes Region History Congresses.
%K Indians of South America Andes Region Antiquities Congresses.
%K Indians of South America Andes Region Politics and government Congresses.
%K Power (Social sciences) Andes Region History Congresses.
%K Social structur
%L ANTH F2230.1.P65UCB:Anth
%P 13-35
%X This chapter looks at the role of irrigation agriculture, warfare (lack thereof), and religion in the origins anddevelopment of the power relationship in an extraordinary early political system. Data are drawn from a cluster ofsmall valleys on the north-central Peruvian coast—a region known as the Norte Chico—where recent research hasrevealed a pattern of more than 20 large sites. These sites all have major monumental architecture and were occupiedin the third millennium B.C. This concentration of major residential and ceremonial centers, thriving between 3000and 1800 B.C., serves as an ideal laboratory for studying the florescence and subsequent development of one of thefirst complex, centralized political systems to arise in the Andean region. These sites are directly associated withthe introduction of irrigation in the area and a rapid transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture. In whatappears to be a truly “pristine” situation, this complex of sites provides a window into how leaders first emergedin early centralized polities and how those leaders came to exercise significant power over their respective subjectpopulations.
%Z Kevin J. Vaughn, Dennis Ogburn, and Christina A. Conlee, editors ; contributions by Mark Aldenderfer ... [et al.].ill., maps ; 28 cm.Imprint date on cover and p. [2] of cover: 2004."This volume is the result of a symposium entitled 'The Foundations and Relations of Power in the Prehistoric Andes' presented at the 101st annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in New Orleans and organized by the editors"--P. iv.The foundations of power in the prehispanic Andes : an introduction / Christina A. Conlee and Dennis Ogburn -- Preludes to power in the highland late preceramic period / Mark Aldenderfer -- Power and the emergence of complex polities in the Peruvian preceramic / Jonathan Haas, Winifred Creamer and Alvaro Ruiz -- Power, fairness, and architecture : modeling early chiefdom development in the central Andes / Charles Stanish and Kevin J. Haley -- The evolution of authority and power at Chavin de Huántar, Peru / John W. Rick -- Trade and social power in the southern Titicaca Basin formative / Matthew S. Bandy -- Crafts and the materialization of chiefly power in Nasca / Kevin J. Vaughn -- Sacred landscapes and imperial ideologies : the Wari Empire in Sondondo, Peru / Katharina Schreiber -- Architecture and power on the Wari-Tiwanaku frontier / Donna J. Nash and Patrick Ryan Williams -- Collapse as cultural revolution : power and identity in the Tiwanaku to Pacajes transition / John Wayne Janusek -- The expansion, diversification, and segmentation of power in late prehispanic Nasca / Christina A. Conlee -- Dynamic display, propaganda, and the reinforcement of provincial power in the Inca Empire / Dennis Ogburn -- La chichera y el patrón : chicha and theenergetics of feasting in the prehistoric Andes / Justin Jennings -- Power and practice in the prehispanic Andes : final comments / Jerry D. Moore.
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