Space-Time Perspectives on Early Colonial Moquegua

Rice, Prudence M.

ISBN 10: 1607322757 / ISBN 13: 9781607322757

Published by University Press of Colorado, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Space-Time Perspectives on Early Colonial Moquegua
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1607322757
• ISBN 13: 9781607322757
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.24W x 22.86H x 3.3D centimeters 15.24 centimeters width by 22.86 centimeters height by 3.3 centimeters depth
• Weight: 1.7 pounds

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Synopsis

In this rich study of the construction and reconstruction of a colonized landscape, Prudence M. Rice takes an implicit political ecology approach in exploring encounters of colonization in Moquegua, a small valley of southern Peru. Building on theories of spatiality, spatialization, and place, she examines how politically mediated human interaction transformed the physical landscape, the people who inhabited it, and the resources and goods produced in this area.

Space-Time Perspectives on Early Colonial Moquegua looks at the encounters between existing populations and newcomers from successive waves of colonization, from Indigenous, expansion states (Wari, Tiwanaku, and Inka) to the foreign Spaniards, and the way each group “re-spatialized” the landscape according to its own political and economic ends. Viewing these spatializations from political, economic, and religious perspectives, Rice considers both the ideological and material occurrences.

Concluding with a special focus on the multiple space-time considerations involved in Spanish-inspired ceramics from the region, Space-Time Perspectives on Early Colonial Moquegua integrates the local and rural with the global and urban in analyzing the events and processes of colonialism. It is a vital contribution to the literature of Andean studies and will appeal to students and scholars of archaeology, historical archaeology, history, ethnohistory, and globalization.

About the Author

Prudence M. Rice is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Department of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She has authored, edited, and co-edited nineteen books, including The Kowoj and The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands from the University Press of Colorado.