ISBN:
9780197265031
Language:
English
Pages:
XXIII, 454 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
Edition:
1. publ.
Series Statement:
Proceedings of the British Academy 173
DDC:
980.01
Keywords:
Indians of South America Antiquities
;
Indians of South America Languages
;
Quechua language History
;
Anthropological linguistics
;
Excavations (Archaeology)
;
Andes Region Languages
;
Andes Region Antiquities
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Andine Hochkulturen
;
Archäologie
;
Quechua-Sprache
Abstract:
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.00
Description / Table of Contents:
Afanasy Nikitin: west and central India, 1471-73Cesare Federici: central and south India, 1563-66 -- Father Antonio Monserrate: west and north India and Punjab, 1579-82 -- William Hawkins: west and north India, 1608-13 --Peter Mundy: north and west India, 1632-33 -- Friar Sebastien Manrique: east India, 1640 -- Niccolao Manucci: west and north India, 1655-56 -- François Bernier: north India, Punjab and Kashmir, 1664 -- Jean-Baptiste Tavernier: north and east India, 1665-66 -- Friar Domingo Fernandez de Navarrete: south and central India, 1670-71.
Note:
Introduction : archaeology, linguistics, and the Andean past : a much-needed conversation
,
Archaeology and language in the Andes : some general models of change
,
Broadening our horizons : towards an interdisciplinary prehistory of the Andes
,
Modelling the Quechua-Aymara relationship : structural features, sociolinguistic scenarios and possible archaeological evidence
,
On the origins of social complexity in the central Andes and possible linguistic connections
,
Central Andean language expansion and the Chavin sphere of interaction
,
The first millennium AD in north central Peru : critical perspectives on a linguistic prehistory
,
Cajamarca Quechua and the expansion of the Huari state
,
Middle horizon imperialism and the prehistoric dispersal of Andean languages
,
Indicators of possible driving forces for the spread of Quechua and Aymara reflected in the archaeology of Cuzco
,
Unravelling the enigma of the 'particular language' of the Incas
,
Accounting for the spread of Quechua and Aymara between Cuzco and Lake Titicaca
,
The herder-cultivator relationship as a paradigm for archaeological origins, linguistic dispersals, and the evolution of record-keeping in the Andes
,
How did Quechua reach Ecuador?
,
Quechua's southern boundary : the case of Santiago del Estero, Argentina
,
Conclusion : a cross-disciplinary prehistory for the Andes? : surveying the state of the art
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