monuments, empires, and resistance

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2、ofpoliticalresistancetotheintrudingSpanishempire.Inthisbook,TomD.DillehayexaminestheresistancestrategiesoftheAraucaniansandhowtheyincorporatedAndeanknowledgeandusedmoundsandothersacredmonumentstoreorganizetheirpoliticalandculturallifeinordertouniteagainsttheSpanish.Drawingonant

3、hropologicalresearchconductedoverthreedecades,Dillehayfocusesonthedevelopmentofleadership,shamanism,rituallandscapes,andpowerrelations,andonhowhealingceremoniesperformedatactivelyusedmoundstodaygivemeaningtothepastandrevealthesocialandcosmologicalprinciplesbywhichtheAraucanians

4、haveorganizedtheirsociety.Hisstudycombinesrecentdevelopmentsinsocialtheorywiththearchaeological,ethnographic,andhistoricalrecords.Boththeoreticallyandempiricallyinformed,thisbookisafascinatingaccountofanindigenousethnicgroupthatsuccessfullyresistedoutsidersformorethanthreecentu

5、riesandflourishedundertheseconditions.Monuments,Empires,andResistanceisanindispensabletextforallarchaeolo-gistsinterestedinthesocial,ideological,anddemographicprocessesthatconstructandmaintainmoundbuildingandmoundworshipinthepast.Thisbookdetailsforthefirsttimeethnographicritualna

6、rrativesthatrevealthekinrelationsbetweenmoundsandlivingshamans.Dillehayilluminatesthesecomplexprocessesandthechangingconsciousnessofthepeoplewhobuiltandlivewiththemounds.TomD.DillehayisDistinguishedProfessorandChairofAnthropologyatVan-derbiltUniversity.Hehasconductedextensivean

7、thropologicalresearchinPeru,Chile,andtheUnitedStates.HehaspublishedextensivelyinbothEnglishandSpanish.Heistheauthorofseveralbooks,includingTheSettlementoftheAmericas:ANewPrehistory,andtheeditorofTombsforLiving:AndeanMortuaryPracticesandhasbeenavisitingprofessoratmorethanfifteenu

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