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Archaeology and Language in the Andes: Proceedings of the British Academy, cartea 173

Editat de Paul Heggarty, David Beresford-Jones
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 mai 2012
The Andes are of unquestioned significance to the human story: a cradle of agriculture and of 'pristine' civilisation with a pedigree of millennia. The Incas were but the culmination of a succession of civilisations that rose and fell to leave one of the richest archaeological records on Earth. By no coincidence, the Andes are home also to our greatest surviving link to the speech of the New World before European conquest: the Quechua language family. For linguists, the native tongues of the Andes make for another rich seam of data on origins, expansions and reversals throughout prehistory. Historians and anthropologists, meanwhile, negotiate many pitfalls to interpret the conflicting mytho-histories of the Andes, recorded for us only through the distorting prism of the conquistadors' world-view.Each of these disciplines opens up its own partial window on the past: very different perspectives, to be sure, but all the more complementary for it. Frustratingly though, specialists in each field have all too long proceeded largely in ignorance of great strides being taken in the others. This book is a long overdue meeting of minds, bringing together a worldwide cast of pre-eminent scholars from each discipline. Here they at last converge their disparate perspectives into a true cross-disciplinary focus, to weave together a more coherent account of what was, after all, one and the same prehistory.The result, instructive also far beyond the Andes, is a rich case-study in the pursuit of a more holistic vision of the human past.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197265031
ISBN-10: 0197265030
Pagini: 440
Ilustrații: 22 maps
Dimensiuni: 169 x 240 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.97 kg
Editura: OUP/British Academy
Colecția OUP/British Academy
Seria Proceedings of the British Academy

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

This book offers a splendid conspectus of issues on many aspects of the Andean past and provides a blueprint for the questions which further researchers should explore. Further examination of such questions will henceforth be unthinkable without students of the topic examining this rich and diverse collection of handsomely-edited papers.