Title: The teleoscopic polity : Andean patriarchy and materiality /
Authors: Dillehay, Tom D.,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Mounds Chile Araucani´a.; Excavations (Archaeology) Chile Araucani´a.; Patrilineal kinship Chile Araucani´a.; Patriarchy Chile Araucani´a.; Mapuche Indians Material culture Chile Araucani´a.; Mapuche Indians Chile Araucani´a Politics and government.; Mapuche Indians Chile Araucani´a Antiquities.; Araucanía (Chile) Antiquities.
Abstract: "This volume provides an up-to-date and in-depth summary and analysis of the political practices of pre-Columbian communities of the Araucanians or Mapuche of southcentral Chile and adjacent regions. This synthesis draws upon the empirical record documented in original research, as well as a critical examination of previous studies. By applying both archaeological and ethnohistorical approaches, the latter including ethnography, this volume distinguishes itself from many other studies that explore South American archaeology. Archaeological and traditional-historical narratives of the pre-European past are considered in their own terms and for the extent to which they can be integrated in order to provide a more rounded and realistic understanding than otherwise of the origins and courses of ecological, economic, social and political changes in the south-central Andes from late pre-Hispanic times, through the contact period and up to Chile’s independence from Spain (ca. AD 1450-1810). Both the approach and the results are discussed in the light of similar situations elsewhere.
Contents: Introduction / Tom D. Dillehay -- The estado as a proto-state polity / Tom D. Dillehay -- The Spanish-Araucanian world of the Purén and Lumaco Valley in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / José Manuel Zavala C. -- Data, methods, and background / Tom D. Dillehay -- Archaeological material manifestations / Tom D. Dillehay -- Environmental responses to climatic and cultural changes / Ana M. Abarzúa [and six others] -- The archaeological record / Tom D. Dillehay and José Saavedra Zapata -- Archaeobotanical remains / Claudia Silva Díaz -- Ceramics and other artifacts / Tom D. Dillehay -- Site distribution and settlement pattern / Tom D. Dillehay, J. Paige Silcox and Carlos Ocampo E. -- The kuel and ceremonial fields as places of patriotism and patriarchy / Tom D. Dillehay -- Appendix 1. Radiocarbon and thermoluminescence dates / Tom D. Dillehay and J. Paige Silcox -- Appendix 2. Carbonized botanical remains from sites in Purén and Lumaco / Renée M. Bonzani -- Appendix 3. Analysis of wood charcoal remains from kuel and domestic sites / Maria Eugenia Solari -- Appendix 4. Phytolith analysis of sites LU-60 and PU-165 / José Iriarte -- Appendix 5. Soil samples from three kuel / Oscar Seguel, Mario Pino Q. and Tom D. Dillehay.