Oracles, Divine Kingship, and Political Representation in the Inka State

Gose, Peter

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“…Female prevalence, in contrast, may be due to a separate combination of dietary and physiological etiologies related to lower proportionate meat consumption among younger adult females, and a combination of lower proportionate meat consumption and accumulated fecundity among older adult females. The association of CCP among young adult females with occlusal wear on the premolars and molars could also indicate caries among these females related to non‐dietary behavior such as masticating corn for the brewing of chicha , a common task among the acllacona or ‘chosen women’ who served the Inca nobility (Gose, ). Indeed, previous interpretations that the Machu Picchu resident population consisted primarily of yanacona and acllacona retainers (Turner et al ., , ) are tentatively supported here as well.…”

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Interpreting Oral Pathology at Machu Picchu, Peru

Turner

2013

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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This study analyzes oral pathological conditions-caries, antemortem tooth loss, and occlusal macrowearamong adults (N = 70) interred at Machu Picchu, Peru. Previous isotopic diet reconstructions at Machu Picchu suggest substantial early-life variation that may have narrowed somewhat by the last decade of life. This study seeks to further elucidate the intersection of diet, sex, and health at Machu Picchu by analyzing oral pathological conditions with existing carbon and nitrogen isotopic data. Observed caries prevalence is corrected to control for age and tooth loss, and is described for both anterior and posterior teeth; wear data are scored and reported for individual tooth types. Results indicate caries prevalence consistent with carbohydrate-rich diets and no significant difference between males and females. However, no significant isotopic parameters are associated with caries prevalence in young adult males, while caries prevalence is significantly associated only with enamel carbonate d 13 C in older adult males. Dietary protein sources, but not C 4 resources, are associated with caries prevalence in young adult females, and to a lesser degree in older adult females. Significant associations between occlusal wear and caries exist among young adult males and young adult females, but involving different tooth types. These findings suggest differential protein consumption at Machu Picchu between males and females, and separate masticatory and physiological processes shaping caries prevalence between the sexes at the site. This study therefore underscores the role that gender roles may have played in diet variation among this population and the need to account for sex in analyzing oral pathology.

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Interpreting Oral Pathology at Machu Picchu, Peru

Turner

2013

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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“…This, I suggest, encourages guardians of some traditions to devalue or deny the existence of natural creations. We see this deferral of credit for creations to supernatural others in divination and spirit possession, for example, where it allows politically problematic innovations to be attributed to an authority with traditional credentials that is higher and less subject to reprisals (e.g., see Gose 1996;Lewis 1989).…”

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Introduction: The Anthropology of Creations

Lohmann¹

2010

Anthropological Forum

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This introduction provides an overview of the contributions to this special issue on the anthropology of creations, and identifies some central concerns and definitions. Juxtaposing emic and etic perspectives, I derive several principles to guide the study of creations. Culture consists of creations, which are products of minds, and exist in three media: thoughts, behaviours and artefacts. Only by being expressed as bodily movement or material culture can creations be transmitted to others. Creations are embedded in webs of mental, behavioural, and artefactual associations that vary across individuals, groups, and time. Imaginations generate creations by representing and manipulating mental images, primarily through recombining and recontextualising elements of preexisting representations. Purposeful imagining is conscious, goal-directed, and subject to agents' executive control. Autonomous imagining generates imagery independent of conscious control, typically in dream or trance; its creations are often attributed to spiritual others. Innovation is the process of imaginative conception, realisation, social adoption, and cultural incorporation of creations. Innovation not only changes but also maintains living traditions.

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“…Similarly, the diversity of subjects, media, and forms of Andean art cautions us against essentializing patterns in art across time and space in the Andes. Yet, at the same time, the implications of an animacy approach are far-reaching, as illustrated by Allen (2015, 36), who recently cited Gose (1996) and Curatola (2008) to argue that the Inka state is best seen as 'an immense and delicate meshwork of personal relations woven by the Inka ruler, the impalpable and fragile strands of which had to be constantly reinforced and renewed' (Allen's translation of Curatola 2008, 57). Finely crafted objects were crucial to the forging and maintenance of these relationships.…”

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Animacy, Abstraction, and Affect in the Andean Past: Toward a Relational Approach to Art

DeMarrais¹

2017

CAJ

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In this article, I set out a relational approach to Andean art, with the aim of investigating, in broad terms, the making, viewing and experience of art among pre-Hispanic peoples. The analysis draws upon the ideas of art historians, as well as upon the work of ethnographers and archaeologists, to integrate theoretical approaches that consider animacy and the ways art objects gain significance as part of assemblages. Examining four aspects of Andean art: (1) insistence; (2) abstraction; (3) networks and linkages; and (4) affect and embodied experience, I conclude that the term ‘art’ (as an analytic category) overlaps poorly with Andean categories of cognition, sociality and material practice. Archaeologists can usefully refocus attention on the ways these craft items were made, used in daily life, displayed in rituals and ultimately deposited in the places where they were found.

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Oracles, Divine Kingship, and Political Representation in the Inka State

Cited by 102 publications

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Interpreting Oral Pathology at Machu Picchu, Peru

Interpreting Oral Pathology at Machu Picchu, Peru

Introduction: The Anthropology of Creations

Animacy, Abstraction, and Affect in the Andean Past: Toward a Relational Approach to Art

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