New Perspectives on Moche Political Organization

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-88402-362-3
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 185 mm x 263 mm, Gewicht: 1042 g

Reihe: Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia

This volume brings together essays on the nature of political organization of the Moche, a complex pre-Inca society that existed on the north coast of Peru from c. 100 to 800 CE. Since the discovery of the royal tombs of Sipán in 1987, the Moche have become one of the best-known pre-Hispanic cultures of the Americas and the focus of a number of archaeological projects. But the nature of Moche political organization is still debated. Some scholars view the Moche as a monolithic state, others see a clear distinction between a northern and southern Moche polity, and yet others argue that the most accurate model is one in which each valley contained an independent polity. In a presentation of new data and new perspectives, the authors debate these competing theories. Based on a set of papers presented by sixteen international scholars at the Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Studies symposium held in Lima, Peru, in 2004, this volume marks an important point in the development of Moche archaeology and will be a landmark work in Pre-Columbian studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Quilter, Jeffrey

Castillo B., Luis Jaime

Weitere Mitwirkende

Benson, Elizabeth P.

Billman, Brian

Bourget, Steve

Chapdelaine, Claude

Donnan, Christopher B.

Fash, William L.

Jordan, Regulo Franco

Millaire, Jean-Francois

Shimada, Izumi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Über Autor(innen)

Castillo B., Luis Jaime
Luis Jaime Castillo Butters is Professor of Humanities and Archaeology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.

Fash, William L.
William L. Fash, Jr., is Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology and William and Muriel Seabury Howells Director of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University.

Quilter, Jeffrey
Jeffrey Quilter is past Director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, and of Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.