Andean Ecology And Civilization
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Andean Ecology And Civilization
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Author : Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Symposium
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Andean Ecology And Civilization written by Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Symposium and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with History categories.
Andean Ecology And Civilization
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Author : Shōzō Masuda
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985-01
Andean Ecology And Civilization written by Shōzō Masuda and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-01 with Andes Region categories.
Andean Ecology And Civilization
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Author : Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (N.Y.). Symposium
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Andean Ecology And Civilization written by Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (N.Y.). Symposium and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Andes Region categories.
Ecology And Exchange In The Andes
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Author : David Lehmann
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-09-17
Ecology And Exchange In The Andes written by David Lehmann and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-17 with Philosophy categories.
For centuries Andean civilization and ecology has afforded a special fascination for European travellers and officials. In this volume, eight writers - anthropologists, economists and historians working in Bolivia, Britain, France, Ireland and Peru - describe and analyse aspects of rural society in various Andean regions. They focus on the impact of capitalist development on both the peasant economy and the landed elite in the Andes and the ways in which that impact has been shaped by a specific Andean culture and a characteristic Andean ecology and climate. Their discussion of Andean specificity centres on the notion of verticality, first developed by John Murra to describe political and economic adaptation to climatic variation in the Andean eco-system. The volume represents a substantial contribution to our understanding of Andean rural society and the nature of the Latin American peasantry and peasant economy. It will appeal to all those interested in economic anthropology, Latin America, peasant studies and the capitalist world-economy.
Reciprocity And Redistribution In Andean Civilizations
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Author : John V. Murra
language : en
Publisher: Hau
Release Date : 2017
Reciprocity And Redistribution In Andean Civilizations written by John V. Murra and has been published by Hau this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Andes Region categories.
John V. Murra's Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, originally given in 1969, are the only major study of the Andean "avenue towards civilization." Collected and published for the first time here, they offer a powerful and insistent perspective on the Andean region as one of the few places in which a so-called "pristine civilization" developed. Murra sheds light not only on the way civilization was achieved here--which followed a fundamentally different process than that of Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica--he uses that study to shed new light on the general problems of achieving civilization in any world region. Murra intermixes a study of Andean ecology with an exploration of the ideal of economic self-sufficiency, stressing two foundational socioeconomic forces: reciprocity and redistribution. He shows how both enabled Andean communities to realize direct control of a maximum number of vertically ordered ecological floors and the resources they offered. He famously called this arrangement a "vertical archipelago," a revolutionary model that is still examined and debated almost fifty years after it was first presented in these lecture. Written in a crisp and elegant style and inspired by decades of ethnographic fieldwork, this set of lectures is nothing less than a lost classic, and it will be sure to inspire new generations of anthropologists and historians working in South America and beyond.
The Tiwanaku
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Author : Alan L. Kolata
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 1993-12-08
The Tiwanaku written by Alan L. Kolata and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-12-08 with History categories.
The Tiwanaku The city of Tiwanaku lies ruined in the rugged Andean steppe of Bolivia twelve thousand feet above sea level, the highest urban settlement of the ancient world. Its wide streets open towards ramparts of glaciated mountain peaks and the intense blue waters of Lake Titicaca. Gigantic stone sculptures and shattered architectural blocks suggest profound antiquity and the passage of great events, now lost and unremembered. Here, two and a half thousand years ago, a distinct society emerged which over the course of thirteen centuries developed one of the greatest civilizations and the first empire of the ancient Americas. This book, the first published history of the Tiwanakan peoples from their origins to their present survival, is a feat of scholarly and archaeological detection undertaken and led by the author. Alan Kolata draws together the evidence of historical documents from the time of the Iberian conquest, accounts and legends of the contemporary inhabitants, and the results of extensive excavations in order to provide a narrative covering three thousand years. In doing so he addresses and explains features of Tiwanakan culture that have long puzzled scholars: the origins of their uniquely massive architecture, the nature of their sophisticated hydraulically-engineered agriculture, their obsession with decapitation and the display of severed heads, and not least the reasons for their mysterious and sudden decline at the end of the tenth century. The book is illustrated throughout with photographs, maps and drawings, and is fully referenced and indexed. Although written to appeal to the nonspecialist and assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, this is a book of scholarly import, and likely to become the standard work for many years.
Vicos And Beyond
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Author : Tom Greaves
language : en
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Release Date : 2010-10-16
Vicos And Beyond written by Tom Greaves and has been published by Rowman Altamira this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-16 with Social Science categories.
In 1952, Professor Allan Holmberg arranged for Cornell University to lease the Hacienda Vicos, an agricultural estate in the central Peruvian highlands on which some 1800 Quechua-speaking highland peasants resided. Between 1952 and 1957 Holmberg, with colleagues and students, initiated a set of social, economic, and agrarian changes, and nurtured mechanisms for community-based management of the estate by the resident peasants. By the end of a second lease in 1962, sufficient political pressure had been brought to bear on a reluctant national government to force the sale of Vicos to its people. Holmberg's twin goals for the Vicos Project were to bring about community possession of their land base and to study the process as it unfolded, advancing anthropological understanding of cultural change. To describe the process of doing both, he invented the term 'participant intervention.' Despite the large corpus of existing Vicos publications, this book contains much information that here reaches print for the first time. The chapter authors do not entirely agree on various key points regarding the nature of the Vicos Project, the intentions of project personnel and community actors, and what interpretive framework is most valid; in part, these disagreements reflect the relevance and importance of the Vicos Project to contemporary applied anthropologists and the contrasting ways in which any historical event can be explained. Some chapters contrast Vicos with other projects in the southern Andean highlands; others examine new developments at Vicos itself. The conclusion suggests how those changes should be understood, within Andean anthropology and within anthropology more generally.
Andean Ecology
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Author : Gregory Knapp
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-03-07
Andean Ecology written by Gregory Knapp and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-07 with Political Science categories.
This book describes and analyzes the adaptive strategies of traditional and prehistoric farmers in one part of the Andes, in an effort to understand the varying interactions between people and their habitat over the last five hundred years.
The Andean World
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Author : Linda J. Seligmann
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-11-08
The Andean World written by Linda J. Seligmann and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-08 with Social Science categories.
This comprehensive reference offers an authoritative overview of Andean lifeways. It provides valuable historical context, and demonstrates the relevance of learning about the Andes in light of contemporary events and debates. The volume covers the ecology and pre-Columbian history of the region, and addresses key themes such as cosmology, aesthetics, gender and household relations, modes of economic production, exchange, and consumption, postcolonial legacies, identities, political organization and movements, and transnational interconnections. With over 40 essays by expert contributors that highlight the breadth and depth of Andean worlds, this is an essential resource for students and scholars alike.
The Political History Of Andean Production
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Author : James Krippner-Martínez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The Political History Of Andean Production written by James Krippner-Martínez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with categories.