Andean peoples recognize places as neither sacred nor profane, but rather in terms of the power they emanate and the identities they materialize and reproduce. This book argues that a careful consideration of Andean conceptions of powerful places is critical not only to understanding Andean political and religious history but to rethinking sociological theories on landscapes more generally. The contributors evaluate ethnographic and ethnohistoric analogies against the material record to illuminate the ways landscapes were experienced and politicized over the last three thousand years.

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Chapter 1. Introduction: Place, Landscape, and Power in the Ancient Andes and Andean Archaeology by Edward R. Swenson and Justin Jennings
Chapter 2. Mountains and Pachakutis: Ontology, Politics, Temporality by Peter Gose
Chapter 3. Rise of the Cordillera Blanca: Orogeny and Imagination in Ancient Ancash, Peru by George F. Lau
Chapter 4. Landscape Biography of a Powerful Place: Raqchi, Department of Cuzco, Peru by Bill Sillar
Chapter 5. Cuni Raya Superhero: Ontologies of Water on Peru’s North Coast by Mary Weismantel
Chapter 6. Tiwanaku as Telluric Waterscape: Water and Stone in a Highland Andean City by John Wayne Janusek and Corey Bowen
Chapter 7. Sacrificial Landscapes and the Anatomy of Moche Biopolitics by Edward R. Swenson
Chapter 8. Moving between Homes: Landscape, Mobility, and Political Action in the Titicaca Basin by Andrew P. Roddick and John Wayne Janusek
Chapter 9. Ancestors, Animacy, and Archives: Dynamics of Heterarchy in Pre-Hispanic Northwest Argentina by Elizabeth Demarrais
Chapter 10. The View from the Top: The Materiality of Mountainscapes and the Re-creation of Society in the Andean Late Intermediate Period by Anna Guengerich
Chapter 11. A Moving Place: The Two-Millennia-Long Creation of Quilcapampa by Justin Jennings, Stephen Birquist, Giles Spence-Morrow, Peter Bikoulis, Felipe Gonzalez-Macqueen, Willy Yépez Álvarez, and Stefanie L. Bautista
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