IEH   26794
INSTITUTO DE ESTUDIOS HISTORICOS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Household dynamics and the reproduction of early village societies in Northwest Argentina (200BC-AD 850).
Autor/es:
JULIÁN SALAZAR
Lugar:
Clinton, NY
Reunión:
Workshop; Windlslow Seminar at Hamilton College; 2019
Institución organizadora:
Hamilton College, NY, USA
Resumen:
Long term evolutionary narratives on South Andean pre-Columbian history have stressed lineal processes of complexity intensification, defined by progressive and cumulative changes on subsistence strategies, from small and egalitarian hunter gatherer groups to complex multi-communitarian chiefdoms. These changes were thought to influence or even determine the structure of households and consequently daily life of people. Nevertheless, recent household archaeology studies have demonstrated that the reproduction of quotidian practices within specific material settings were creative spheres where the whole society was set up, reproduced or challenged. In this contribution I present new researches on early villager settlements (BC 500 ? 1000 AD) from valleys and eastern piedmont of the South Andes (NW Argentina) addressing the material dynamics of houses and the constitution of assemblages which allowed the formation of early villages. Rather than being determined by mandatory structural or subsistence forces that affected a seamless society, the early village setting was continually re-created by heterogeneous collectives, formed by the complex mesh of daily life, house materiality and household relationships. On the other hand, these performative creations were not multiple free willing actions, but defined by the long history of other precedent material meshes, whose milestone was kinship, built upon the veneration of ancestors.