Format:
Online-Ressource (XXVII, 388 p. 102 illus., 60 illus. in color, online resource)
ISBN:
9783319031286
Series Statement:
Contributions to global historical archaeology 38
Content:
This volume provides an up-to-date and in-depth summary and analysis of the political practices of pre-Columbian communities of the Araucanians or Mapuche of southcentral Chile and adjacent regions. This synthesis draws upon the empirical record documented in original research, as well as a critical examination of previous studies. By applying both archaeological and ethnohistorical approaches, the latter including ethnography, this volume distinguishes itself from many other studies that explore South American archaeology. Archaeological and traditional-historical narratives of the pre-European past are considered in their own terms and for the extent to which they can be integrated in order to provide a more rounded and realistic understanding than otherwise of the origins and courses of ecological, economic, social and political changes in the south-central Andes from late pre-Hispanic times, through the contact period and up to Chile’s independence from Spain (ca. AD 1450-1810). Both the approach and the results are discussed in the light of similar situations elsewhere. Throughout its treatment, the volume continually comes back to two central questions: (1) how did the varied practices, institutions, and worldviews of the Mapuche’s ancient communities emerge as a historical process that resisted the Spanish empire for more than 250 years, and (2) how were these communities reproduced and transformed in the face of ongoing culture contact and landscape change during the early Colonial period? These questions are considered in light of contemporary theoretical concepts regarding practice, landscape, environment, social organization, materiality, community, and what the author refers to as a teleoscopic political formation that will make the book relevant for students and scholars interested in similar processes elsewhere
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Description based upon print version of record
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Preface; Abstract; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; About the Author; List of Figures; List of Tables; Part I; History and Polity; Chapter 1; Introduction; Turbulence, Leadership, and the Composite Polity; The Analytical Approach; Setting the Historical Scene; Unity and Disunity; Organization of the Book; References; Chapter 2; The Estado as a Proto-State Polity; Scholarly Considerations of Polity/State Formation; The Matter of State in the Andes; Political Authority and Legitimacy; Ancestral and Ritual Authority; Standardization and Incorporation
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Social Reciprocity and Political ObligationCoalescing the Private and Public: The Ascent of Patriarchicalism; Warriorhood; References; Chapter 3; The Spanish-Araucanian World of the Purén and Lumaco Valley in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Introduction; The Regional Nahuelbuta Cordillera System: Definition and General Characteristics; The Nahuelbuta Cordillera System and the First Spanish Contacts in the Sixteenth Century; The Spanish Presence in the Nahuelbuta Cordillera of the Sixteenth Century: Gold and the Distribution and Control of the Population
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The Four Sixteenth-Century Provinces or "Estado" and their LevosThe Province of Purén from the Sixteenth Century to the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century; Conclusions; Archives; References; Part II; The Setting and Evidence; Chapter 4; Data, Methods, and Background; Introduction; Triangulation; Domains and Styles; Prior Historical Perspectives; Historical Araucanian Archaeology; Rituals and Mound Complexes; Research Setting and Plan; Archaeological Field and Laboratory Methods; Surface Collections; Topographic Mapping; Surface Collection Strategy
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Geophysical Testing through Electromagnetic Induction SurveyExcavation Strategy; Chronological Scheme for Radiocarbon and Thermoluminescence Dates and Ceramic Types; Archaic Period (~ 6000 BC-AD 400); Early Pre-Hispanic Period (EPH, ~ AD 400-1000); Late Pre-Hispanic Period (LPH, ~ AD 1000-1550); Early Hispanic Period (EH, ~ AD 1550-1700); Epilogue; References; Chapter 5; Archaeological Material Manifestations; Introduction; Mounds, Ceramics, and Settlement Patterns; Ethnographic Houses; Archaeological Houses and Community; Public Ceremony; Sacred Hilltops; Ceremonial Fields
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The Nguillatun CeremonyKuel Mounds; Sacred Trees; Burials; Miscellany; Patrilineality, Simple Materiality, and Social Integration; References; Chapter 6; Environmental Responses to Climatic and Cultural Changes; Introduction; Environmental Setting; Methods; Results and Interpretations; Geochemical Sediment Description and Chronology; Biological Proxies: Pollen, Diatoms, Chironomids, and Charcoal Records; Calibration of Z. mays Pollen; Discussion; References; Chapter 7; The Archaeological Record; Introduction; Results of Electromagnetic Induction Survey; Off-Mound Soil Profile
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Mound Stratigraphy and Construction Sequence
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783319031279
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The teleoscopic polity Cham : Springer, 2014 ISBN 9783319031279
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Ethnology
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-03128-6
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