The Ancient Andean States: Political Landscapes in Pre-Hispanic Peru

ISBN-13: 9781138097636 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 282 str.

Henry Tantalean

Opis

The Ancient Andean States combines modern social theory, recent archaeological literature and the experience of the author to examine politics and power in the great Andean prehispanic societies.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction: why and how to study the ancient Andean states; Part I: Theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of the ancient Andean states; Chapter 2. Previous research on the ancient Andean states in Peru; Chapter 3. A proposal for the study of ancient Andean states; Part II: Case studies; Section I: the precursors of the ancient Andean states; Chapter 4. Caral; Chapter 5. Sechín; Chapter 6. Chavín; Section 2: the ancient Andean states; Chapter 7. Moche; Chapter 8. Wari; Chapter 9. Chimú; Chapter 10. Inca; Part III: Summary; Chapter 11. The ancient Andean states: discontinuities and continuities.; Chapter 12. Epilogue

O autorze

Henry Tantaleán is a Peruvian archaeologist from Lima. He studied archaeology at the National University of San Marcos, where he is currently a full professor. He obtained a master's degree and Ph.D. from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. His interests are social theory and archaeological applications, Andean archaeology, and origins of the Andean pre-Hispanic states. He is the author of several academic publications. Recently, he published Peruvian Archaeology: A Critical History (Routledge, 2016) and edited the volume Andean Ontologies: New Archaeological Perspectives.