INVESTIGADORES
LUNA Leandro Hernan
artículos
Título:
Imperial ritual appropriation and violence: the severed heads from Fiambalá and Copiapó during Inca times
Autor/es:
GARRIDO, FRANCISCO; RATTO, NORMA; MORALES, CATALINA; DE STÉFANO, JULIA; ARANDA, CLAUDIA; LUNA, LEANDRO
Revista:
World Archaeology
Editorial:
Taylor & Francis
Referencias:
Año: 2023 p. 464 - 476
ISSN:
1470-1375
Resumen:
The appropriation of local ritual practices and their expansion as part of the Inca imperialideology is a well-documented mode of dominance in the Central Andes. However, there isstill no relevant evidence on how it worked in the southern areas of the empire. We showhow the Incas might have appropriated some local ritual practices that consisted of buryingcaches of skulls with perforations, possibly associated with ancestor veneration cults.However, the meanings associated with this practice seem to have changed during the Incaexpansion to Chile, serving as a device for coercion over local populations in the Copiapóvalley.
