Territoriality, social boundaries and ancestor veneration in the central Andes of Peru

Registro De Máscaras en Sierra De La Ventana De La Región Pampeana Argentina: Presentación De Explicaciones Alternativas

“…La determinación de "territorios" específicos por los grupos sociales implica la ocupación y por lo tanto la apropiación de determinados espacios en donde se lleva a cabo su subsistencia ( Jochim 1981;Giménez & Héau Lambert 2007), así como los vínculos establecidos y la constitución de las respectivas identidades (Mantha 2009). En este sentido, es necesario considerar la movilidad como un mecanismo continuo adaptativo y sustancial mediante el cual se permite explotar el territorio y sus recursos, minimizar el riesgo y, fundamentalmente, aumentar el grado de información (Gamble 1990).…”

Continuity and change in the evolution of religion and political organization on pre-Columbian Puerto Rico

“…181-212;Mantha, 2009;Radcliffe-Brown, 1964, pp. 136-185;Roosevelt, 1987, p. 154;Roosevelt, 1991, pp.…”

House forms and Recuay culture: Residential compounds at Yayno (Ancash, Peru), a fortified hilltop town, AD 400–800

“…108). Such buildings were likely the dwellings of small households or families; similar forms continued into later times (Herrera et al, 2006;Mantha, 2009;Morris and Thompson, 1985).…”

“…The residential patterns are consistent with changing funerary practices, which increasingly stressed group definition based on ancestor veneration. Groups, through tomb monuments and their associated ritual, intensified segmentation within a given community (for later periods in nearby regions, see Herrera et al, 2006;Mantha, 2009;Parsons et al, 1997;Salomon, 1995). Variability in tomb size, the addition of stone sculptures, and other forms of elaboration help to distinguish groups of different means and cultural preferences 14 I employ 'plaza' tentatively here for this reason.…”