Andean Ontologies : New Archaeological Perspectives

385 Pages·2019·25.93 MB·English

by  María Cecilia Lozada and Henry Tantaleán

Andean Ontologies
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ANDEAN
ONTOLOGIE S
New Archaeological Perspectives
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Edited by María Cecilia Lozada and Henry Tantaleán
University Press of Florida
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Copyright 2019 by María Cecilia Lozada and Henry Tantaleán
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Lozada, María Cecilia, editor. | Tantaleán, Henry, 1974– editor.
Title: Andean ontologies : new archaeological perspectives / edited by María
Cecilia Lozada and Henry Tantaleán.
Description: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2019. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018047756 | ISBN 9780813056371 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Ontology—History. | Indians of South America—Andes
Region—History. | Ontologism—History.
Classification: LCC BD357 .A53 2019 | DDC 111.0985/0902—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018047756
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Contents
List of Figures ix
List of Tables xiii
Preface xv
Henry Tantaleán and María Cecilia Lozada
1. Andean Ontologies: An Introduction to Substance 1
Henry Tantaleán
2. Huaca Salango: A Sacred Center on the Coast of Ecuador 49
Richard Lunniss
3. Analogism at Chavín de Huántar 79
Nicco La Mattina and Matthew Sayre
4. Indigenous Anatomies: Ontological Dissections of the Indigenous
Body 99
María Cecilia Lozada
5. Moche Corporeal Ontologies: Transfiguration, Ancestrality, and Death;
A Perspective from the Late Moche Cemetery of San José de Moro,
Northern Peru 116
Luis Armando Muro, Luis Jaime Castillo, and Elsa Tomasto-Cagigao
6. Moche Mereology: Synecdochal Ontologies at the Late Moche Site
of Huaca Colorada, Peru 150
Giles Spence-Morrow and Edward Swenson
7. The Head as the Seat of the Soul: A Medium for Spiritual Reciprocity
in the Early Andes 183
Mary Glowacki
8. Toward a Situated Ontology of Bodies and Landscapes in the
Archaeology of the Southern Andes (First Millennium AD, Northwest
Argentina) 213
Benjamin Alberti and Andres Laguens
9. Ontological Foundations for Inka Archaeology 240
Bruce Mannheim
10. A Past as a Place: Examining the Archaeological Implications of the
Aymara Pacha Concept in the Bolivian Altiplano 271
Juan Villanueva Criales
11. Rock Art, Historical Ontologies, and the Genealogy of Landscape:
A Case Study from the Southern Andes (30° lat. S) 301
Andrés Troncoso
12. Final Commentaries: A Matter of Substance, and the Substance
of Matter 332
Catherine J. Allen
List of Contributors 347
Index 351
Figures
0.1. The main archaeological sites and cities in the volume xvii
2.1. Map showing the relation of Salango to other coastal Ecuadorian sites
mentioned 51
2.2. Map of the area of the Salango sanctuary 53
2.3. Plan of the Middle Engoroy House 55
2.4. Plan of the Late Engoroy Platform 58
2.5. The head of a spirit being modeled on the Late Engoroy whistling bottle
from the shaman’s grave 60
2.6. Sector 141B of the Bahía II funerary enclosure 62
2.7. The spirit being on a Salaite ware double bottle 65
2.8. Heads of the male-female spirit being 66
2.9. Early Guangala male anthropomorphic whistling figurine 66
2.10. Bahía II female anthropomorphic whistling figurine 68
2.11. Composite Early Guangala vessel base in the form of a spirit
being 69
3.1. Chavín de Huántar and site sectors 80
3.2. Roll-out drawing of the Black and White Portal 86
3.3. Tello Obelisk 88
5.1. Evidence of feasting associated with Late Moche chamber tombs
MU-1525 and MU-1727 123
5.2. Moche sculptural vessel depicting an act of corpse manipulation 126
5.3. Evidence of postmortem corporeal modifications within Chamber
MU-1525 127
5.4. Evidence of postmortem corporeal modifications within Chamber
MU-1727 129