IMHICIHU   13380
INSTITUTO MULTIDISCIPLINARIO DE HISTORIA Y CIENCIAS HUMANAS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
capítulos de libros
Título:
Social Landscapes in pre-Inka Northwestern Argentina
Autor/es:
JUAN B. LEONI, FÉLIX A. ACUTO
Libro:
Handbook of South American Archaeology
Editorial:
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Referencias:
Lugar: Nueva York; Año: 2006;
Resumen:
In this chapter we present an overview of the societies that inhabited Northwestern Argentina before the arrival of the Inka. As part of the Andean Area, the peoples that inhabited Northwestern Argentina shared a basic cultural common background with other Andean societies. Nevertheless, they seem to have followed a unique developmental trajectory that differs from the socio-cultural processes that took place in the Central Andes. We organize the discussion in three major temporal-cultural blocks, following the chronological scheme that divides the time span concerned here into three major periods: Early (ca. 500 BC-AD 650), Middle (ca. AD 650-900) and Late (ca. AD 900-1400/1470) (González and Pérez 1972). Instead of discussing each of them as evolutionary stages in a unified developmental sequence we adopt a perspective that focuses on the lived experiences of the past groups. We discuss how landscapes, places, and identities were socially constructed and negotiated in each period, stressing the importance of daily life experiences and interactions as much as the central role of material culture in these socio-cultural processes.