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Experiencing Community: Continuity and Transformation of Residential Life under the Inka Empire in Huarochirí (Lima, Peru)

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Carla Hernández Garavito*
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Department of Anthropology, Wake Forest University, PO Box 7807, Winston-Salem, NC27109, USA
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Abstract

Most archaeological research on the impact of Inka imperialism at the domestic level centers on the intrusion of Inka-style buildings into pre-Inka domestic settlements as transforming the experience of domestic life and actively hindering interhousehold interaction. Results from excavations in the site of Ampugasa in Huarochirí (Lurín valley, Lima, Peru) show that pre-Inka residential spaces (patio-groups) were replaced by enclosures with a single access to an internal patio for domestic activities. My analysis shows that pre-Inka houses were ritually closed, directly connected to the site's ritual core, and remained part of the everyday life experience of people in the settlement. I argue that Ampugasa's transformation corresponds to a pattern of Inka imperialism in Huarochirí that enshrined rather than erased the collective ritual practices through which the people of Huarochirí maintained a broad regional identity. I propose that the interplay between Inka transformation of domestic space in Ampugasa and the continuity of ritual and secular practices among the site's inhabitants shows a space of negotiation where Inka imperialism still relied heavily on local practices that fostered the continuity of collective identities.

La mayoría de los estudios arqueológicos sobre el impacto del imperialismo Inka a nivel doméstico se centran en la intrusión de construcciones estilo Inka en asentamientos domésticos pre-Inka, y en cómo estas intrusiones transformaron la experiencia de la vida doméstica, a la vez que limitaban la capacidad de interacción entre unidades domésticas. Los resultados de las excavaciones en el sitio de Ampugasa (valle de Lurín, Lima, Perú) muestran que los espacios residenciales pre-Inka (grupos-patio) fueron reemplazados por recintos cercados con acceso único a un patio interno para actividades domésticas. Mi análisis muestra que las casas pre-Inka fueron clausuradas ritualmente, conectadas con el centro ritual del sitio, y se mantuvieron como parte de la experiencia diaria de las personas del asentamiento. Propongo que la transformación de Ampugasa corresponden a patrones de imperialismo Inka en Huarochirí que sacralizaron en lugar de borrar las prácticas rituales colectivas por las que población mantuvo una amplia identidad regional. Argumento que la continuidad de prácticas rituales y seculares entre los habitantes del sitio muestran un espacio de negociación en el que el imperialismo Inka se arraigó fuertemente en prácticas locales que reforzaban identidades colectivas.

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Andean archaeologyInka Empirecommunity ritualsresidential architecturearqueología andinaImperio Inkarituales de comunidadarquitectura residencial
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Latin American Antiquity , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , June 2021 , pp. 255 - 273
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for American Archaeology

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