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Powerful places in the ancient Andes /
"Andean peoples recognize places as neither sacred nor profane, but rather in terms of the power they emanate and the identities they materialize and reproduce. This book argues that a careful consideration of Andean conceptions of powerful places is critical not only to understanding Andean po...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | Archaeologies of landscape in the Americas series
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Andean peoples recognize places as neither sacred nor profane, but rather in terms of the power they emanate and the identities they materialize and reproduce. This book argues that a careful consideration of Andean conceptions of powerful places is critical not only to understanding Andean political and religious history but to rethinking sociological theories on landscapes more generally. The contributors evaluate ethnographic and ethnohistoric analogies against the material record to illuminate the ways landscapes were experienced and politicized over the last three thousand years"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 446 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780826359957 0826359957 |