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Cosmology, ancestors and mortuary monuments: Principles of political authority in the Rapayán and Tantamayo region of the upper Marañón in the central Andes of Peru during the Late Intermediate Period (1000-1450 CE)
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology ( IF 2.312 ) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 , DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2022.101441
Alexis Mantha

This paper addresses the cosmological foundations of political authority in the Rapayán-Tantamayo region of the highlands of Peru during the Late Intermediate Period (1000–1450 CE). The people of this region organized their residential settlements around large and elaborate multi-storied tombs where mummified founding ancestors dwelled. The evidence presented reveals that selected families at each settlement built their houses at the foot of these above-ground tombs. By doing so, they controlled the access to the communities’ founding ancestors who were thought to hold cosmological vitalizing energy necessary for the reproduction of the collectivity. Using ethnohistorical analogy, I argue that the heads of such households, through privileged interactions with potent deceased, acted as intermediaries between the life-giving force of primordial ancestors and the well-being of their community. The manifestations of political authority built around the relationship of specific individuals with powerful ancestors represent one of the main contributions of this investigation as the relational agency among these protagonists has proven difficult to identify in the archaeological record elsewhere in the Andean highlands. The results of our investigation therefore contrast with interpretations emphasizing the collective agency of “ancestors” in the legitimization processes of depersonalized cooperate political authority.



中文翻译:

宇宙学、祖先和太平间纪念碑:中后期(公元 1000-1450 年)秘鲁中部安第斯山脉上马拉尼翁的拉帕扬和坦塔马约地区的政治权威原则

本文探讨了中后期(公元 1000-1450 年)秘鲁高地 Rapayán-Tantamayo 地区政治权威的宇宙学基础。这个地区的人们围绕着大型而精致的多层坟墓组织了他们的住宅区,木乃伊的开国祖先居住在那里。所提供的证据表明,每个定居点的选定家庭在这些地上坟墓的脚下建造房屋。通过这样做,他们控制了与社区的创始祖先的接触,这些祖先被认为拥有集体繁殖所必需的宇宙活力能量。使用民族历史的类比,我认为这些家庭的首领,通过与强权死者的特权互动,充当了原始祖先赋予生命的力量与其社区福祉之间的中介。围绕特定个人与强大祖先的关系建立的政治权威的表现形式代表了这项调查的主要贡献之一,因为这些主角之间的关系机构已被证明在安第斯高地其他地方的考古记录中难以识别。因此,我们的调查结果与强调“祖先”集体机构在非人格化合作政治权威的合法化过程中的解释形成对比。围绕特定个人与强大祖先的关系建立的政治权威的表现形式代表了这项调查的主要贡献之一,因为这些主角之间的关系机构已被证明在安第斯高地其他地方的考古记录中难以识别。因此,我们的调查结果与强调“祖先”集体机构在非人格化合作政治权威的合法化过程中的解释形成对比。围绕特定个人与强大祖先的关系建立的政治权威的表现形式代表了这项调查的主要贡献之一,因为这些主角之间的关系机构已被证明在安第斯高地其他地方的考古记录中难以识别。因此,我们的调查结果与强调“祖先”集体机构在非人格化合作政治权威的合法化过程中的解释形成对比。

更新日期:2022-08-11
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