Title: Visions of Tiwanaku /
Authors: Isbell, William Harris, |d 1943-; Janusek, John Wayne, 1963-; Stanish, Charles, 1956-; Vranich, Alexei, 1968-; Vranich, Alexei, 1968-; Stanish, Charles, 1956-; Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA.
Year: 2013
Subjects: Tiwanaku culture; Indians of South America Bolivia Tiwanaku River Valley Antiquities Congresses.; Excavations (Archaeology) Bolivia Tiwanaku River Valley Congresses.; Indians of South America Tiwanaku River Valley (Bolivia) Antiquities Congresses.; Excavations (Archaeology) Tiwanaku River Valley (Bolivia) Congresses.; Tiwanaku Site (Bolivia) Congresses.; Tiwanaku River Valley (Bolivia) Antiquities Congresses.
Abstract: "“What was Tiwanaku?' This question was posed to a select group of scholars that gathered for an intensive two-day conference at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. For over half a millennium, the megalithic ruins in the highlands of the Andes mountains have stood as proxy for the desires and ambitions of various empires and political agendas; in the last hundred years, scholars have attempted to answer this question by interpreting the shattered remains from a distant preliterate past. The conference pooled the decades of experience of a dozen leading scholars together with the recent field data of junior scholars (published separately in Volumes 2 and 3 of Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology).
Contents: Preface / Alexei Vranich -- Visions of Tiwanaku / Alexei Vranich -- Stylistic variation and seriation / Michael Moseley -- Tiwanaku : a cult of the masses / Patrick Ryan Williams -- Tiwanaku and Wari state expansion : demographic and outpost colonization compared / Paul Goldstein -- The cultural implications of an analysis of the textiles of Tiwanaku and Huari / William J. Conklin -- Tiwanaku influence on the central valley of Cochabamba / Karen Anderson -- Tiwanaku ritual and political transformations in the core and peripheries / Matthew T. Seddon -- Tiwanaku origins and the early development : the political and moral economy of a hospitality state / Matthew Bandy -- What was Tiwanaku? / Charles Stanish -- Nature of an Andean city : Tiwanaku and the production of spectacle / William H. Isbell -- Social diversity, ritual encounter, and the contingent production of Tiwanaku / John W. Janusek -- Tiwanaku's coming of age : refining time and style in the Altiplano / Patricia J. Knoblock -- Concluding thoughts / Alexei Vranich.