Andean ontologies : new archaeological perspectives / edited by María Cecilia Lozada and Henry Tantaleán.
This volume explores the Pre-Columbian Andean concepts of time, space, and the human body through objects, skeletal remains, and language. This interdisciplinary approach to conceptualizing what the Andean concepts of being may have been, brings contemporary approaches to past notions of the sacred,...
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Table of Contents:
- Preface / Henry Tantaleán and María Cecilia Lozada
- Andean ontologies: an introduction to the substance / Henry Tantaleán
- Huaca Salango: a sacred center on the coast of Ecuador / Richard Lunnis
- Analogism at ontology at Chavín de Huantár / Mathew Sayre and Nicco La Mattina
- Indigenous anatomies: ontological dissections of the Andean body / María Cecilia Lozada
- Moche corporeal ontologies: transfiguration, ancestrality and death. a perspective from the late Moche Cemetery of San Jos¿ de Moro, Northern Perú / Luis A. Muro, Luis Jaime Castillo B. and Elsa Tomasto C
- Moche mereology: synecdochical ontologies at the late Moche site of Huaca Colorada, Peru / Giles Spence-Morrow and Edward Swenson
- The head as the seat of the soul: a medium for spiritual reciprocity in the early Andes / Mary Glowacki
- Towards a situated ontology of bodies and landscapes in the archaeology of the southern Andes / Benjamin Alberti and Andres Laguens
- Ontological foundations of Inka archaeology / Bruce Mannheim
- A past as a place: examining the archaeological implication of the Aymara Pacha Concept in the Bolivian altiplano / Juan Villanueva Criales
- Rock art, historical ontologies, and the genealogy of landscape: a case study from the southern Andes / Andr¿s Troncoso
- Final commentaries: a matter of substance, and the substance of matter / Catherine Allen.