The past ahead
Subtitle: language, culture, and identity in the Neotropics
By: edited by Christian Isendahl
Series: Studies in global archaeology -- 18; Studies in global archaeology -- 18.
Publisher: Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Uppsala
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9789150622898
Subjects: Congresses; Ethnic identity; Indians of South America; Social conditions
Description: "In Andean cognition the embodiment of the past is different from many other ways to spatially relate the position of the body to time. This epistemology is for instance expressed in the Quechua word ñawpa, which signifies that the past is 'in front of us;' it is known and can be seen. Seeing and knowing the past in this way reverberates within the historical ecological argument that the present is contingent with the past and is explicitly reflected within the contributions to this volume. “The Past Ahead: Language, Culture, and Identity in the Neotropics” forms a collection of reworked papers originally presented in shorter format by archaeologists, anthropologists, and linguists atthe research symposium “Archaeology and Society in Bolivia” organized at Uppsala University by the editor. The volume includes chapters by Jan-Åke Alvarsson, Lisbet Bengtsson, Roger Blench, Sergio Calla, Christian Isendahl, Carla Jaimes, John Janusek, Adriana Muñoz, Heiko Prümers, Walter Sánchez, Per Stenborg, Juan Marcelo Ticona, and Charlotta Widmark examining a series of different aspects of agriculture, complex societies, identities, landscape, languages, and urbanism inthe highland and lowland Neotropics that all highlight the significance of the past in the present"--Back cover.
Notes: International conference proceedings, held September 2008, Uppsala University.

Includes bibliographical references.