Book
Competition and cooperation in a prehispanic multi-ethnic system in the central Andes
University Microfilms International • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 2001 • Pages:
By: Dillehay, Tom D..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this dissertation, Dillehay examines the complex relationship between highland and lowland groups in the Chillón Valley of Peru and constructs a multi-ethnic interaction system model, which he uses to explain why a state did not develop in the valley prior to the Inca conquest. His model is based on ecological, economic, and political data derived from the distribution pattern of ceramics, settlement patterns, housing types, ethnohistorical sources, and contemporary ethnography. Dillehay carried out a survey of settlements in the coastal, middle, and upper segments of the Chillón Valley and an excavation at Huancayo Alto, the valley's largest settlement and principal site. He classifies pottery types and analyzes their distribution to delineate the location and movement of ethnic groups. Housing types identifies which class position each group occupied. He identities over fifteen ethnic groups in the valley. Although some groups were more powerful than others, no one group was paramount. According to Dillehay, ecological, demographic, and economic factors favored more complex political arrangements that helped preserve the autonomy of groups and flow of goods, resources, and labor.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Topography and geology
- External migration
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Water supply
- Ceramic technology
- Settlement patterns
- External trade
- Territorial hierarchy
- External relations
- Texts
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Andean Regional States
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Andes
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1973-1974
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1200-1550
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chillón Valley, Lima Province, Peru
- NotesAdditional notes
- Tommy Delton Dillehay
- UM 77-11,505
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 548-565)
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Texas, Austin, 1976
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of South America--Antiquities