Sound and Fury: Dancing Platforms, Holy Mountains and Encroaching Empire in the Upper Ica Drainage, AD 1000-1615

KEVIN LANE

Berkeley

Congreso; Institute of Andean Studies 61st Annual Meeting; 2021

Institute of Andean Studies

The Ica Highlands during the late Prehispanic Period and early Spanish Colony were a contested area between the Chocorvos, the Incas and the Spanish. The settlement site of Viejo Sangayaico (3,600 m) and the sacred mountain-top (or apu) site of Huinchocruz encapsulates these dichotomies of conquest and colonization, and how they played out in the wider landscape. Using soundscape, local memories, and ethnography we recreate possible patterns of pilgrimage that linked Viejo Sangayaico and Huinchocruz to its landscape. Finally, we also reflect on cultural hybridity, synchronicity, and substitution during the occupation, colonization and abandonment of the settlement at Viejo Sangayaico.