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Abstract [en]
In Andean cognition the embodiment of the past is different from many other ways to spatiallyrelate the position of the body to time. This epistemology is for instance expressed in the Quechuaword ñawpa, which signifies that the past is “in front of us;” it is known and can be seen. Seeing andknowing the past in this way reverberates within the historical ecological argument that the presentis contingent with the past and is explicitly reflected within the contributions to this volume. “ThePast Ahead: Language, Culture, and Identity in the Neotropics” forms a collection of reworkedpapers originally presented in shorter format by archaeologists, anthropologists, and linguists atthe research symposium “Archaeology and Society in Bolivia” organized at Uppsala University bythe 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 ofdifferent 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.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Uppsala University, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, 2012. p. 262 Edition: 1
Series
Studies in Global Archaeology, ISSN 1651-1255 ; 18
Keywords
Neotropics, archaeology, historical ecology, language, culture, identity, agriculture
National Category
Archaeology
Research subject
Archaeology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-176641 (URN)978-91-506-2289-8 (ISBN)
2013-01-232012-06-212013-01-23Bibliographically approved