Ancient Alterity in the Andes : a Recognition of Others.

Ancient Alterity in the Andes is the first major treatment on ancient alterity: how people in the past regarded others. At least since the 1970s, alterity has been an influential concept in different fields, from art history, psychology and philosophy, to linguistics and ethnography. Having gained s...

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Main Author: Lau, George F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • 3 Familiar others: kin, collectivity and authorityFamiliar relations; Art, collectivity and memory during the Early Intermediate Period; Domestic worlds; Rise of chiefly alterities; Political organization in highland Ancash; The social imagery of Recuay artworks; Stylized, close relations; Summary; 4 Predatorial relations; Predation; Sociality of Amerindian warfare; Imagery of predation; Conflict and predation in the archaeological record; Summary; 5 The dead and the living; Death practices and cosmology in the Andes; Colonial exigencies: resettlement and inquisition
  • Prehispanic death practicesDiscussion: alterities of the dead; Summary; 6 Conclusions; Alterities in archaeology: moving forward; Coda: converging perspectives; Notes; Bibliography; Index