Introduction to Status and Identity in the Imperial Andes: A Collection of Transhistorical Studies
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Introduction to Status and Identity in the Imperial Andes: A Collection of Transhistorical Studies Sarah A. Kennedy 1 & Scotti M. Norman 2,3 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2019
Abstract The papers in this special issue arise from the Status and Identity in the Imperial Andes session held at the 2017 meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Vancouver, Canada. That session focused on the role of status and power in shaping colonial interactions and identities throughout the Andes during the fifteenth to seventeenth century CE. The papers in this issue examine how Inka and colonial period individuals (indigenous, African, Iberian, mestizo, etc.) selectively incorporated or rejected Imperial goods, and how differing levels of access to these goods may have influenced social status, health, and relationships with imperial actors. Keywords Imperialism . Colonialism . Andes . Status . Identity . Transhistorical .
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Introduction The thematic conception of this special issue of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology emerged from a symposium entitled BStatus and Identity in the Imperial Andes^ held at the 2017 Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada. The goal of the symposium, as well as this issue, was to bring
Guest Editors: Scotti M. Norman and Sarah A. Kennedy
* Sarah A. Kennedy [email protected] Scotti M. Norman [email protected]; [email protected]
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Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, 3302 WWPH, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
2
Pre-Columbian Studies Program, Harvard University Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Dumbarton Oaks, 1703 32nd St. NW, Washington, DC 20007, USA
3
Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
International Journal of Historical Archaeology
together a range of studies on status, power, and identity in transhistorical and transAndean imperial contexts (see Fig. 1). Within this issue, paper topics range from the ethnicity of retainers on Inka estates in the Inka heartland, to the religious identity of indigenous practitioners of the Taki Onqoy revitalization movement in the Early Colonial Period, to the use of Huánuco Pampa as a national heritage site in modern Peruvian national identity. What ties the papers in this issue together is their focus on the material and institutional changes and continuities of daily life for subjects of the Inka and Spanish Empires. While we have tried to include examples of research from Inka, Colonial, and Republican periods throughout the Andes, many of our papers are truly transhistorical in nature. This issue attempts to trace change and continuity throughout multiple generations and time periods, bridging the Bgreat temporal divide^ between prehispanic and colonial studies (Appadurai 1991; Bray, this volume; Cobb 2005; Harris 1995; Trouillot 1991; VanValkenburgh, this volume; Wernke 2013). We choose to use Bstatus^ and Bidentity^ as the central themes in this issue to focus on the variabili
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