INVESTIGADORES
NIELSEN Axel Emil
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Corporate practices and interregional trade in the Late prehispanic history of the Circumpuna Andes.
Autor/es:
AXEL E. NIELSEN
Lugar:
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Reunión:
Congreso; 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology; 2006
Institución organizadora:
Society for American Archaeology
Resumen:
At the beginning of the second millenium AD interregional trade became more intense in the Andes of NW Argentina, SW Bolivia, and N Chile. This seems at odds with other data that indicate a shift from a network to a corporate mode of political action at the time. This apparent contradiction derives from the the concept of prestige goods, the main tool for theorizing the social value of foreign items. Instead, we propose to think of them as corporate emblems, collectively owned inalienable possessions whose value lies in symbolic connections to the cosmological model that forms the basis of authority.