TY - BOOK ID - 7764096 TI - The Teleoscopic Polity : Andean Patriarchy and Materiality PY - 2014 SN - 3319031279 3319031287 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Andes -- Antiquities. KW - Anthropology. KW - Archaeology. KW - History & Archaeology KW - Archaeology KW - Andes KW - Antiquities. KW - Archeology KW - Andean Mountain Range KW - Andean Mountains KW - Andean Range KW - Andes Mountain Range KW - Andes Mountain Ranges KW - Andes Mountains KW - Andes Range KW - Andes Ranges KW - Anti (Mountains) KW - Antis (Mountains) KW - Cordillera de los Andes KW - Los Andes KW - The Andes KW - Social sciences. KW - History. KW - Social Sciences. KW - History, general. KW - Anthropology KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - History KW - Antiquities KW - Annals KW - Human beings KW - Primitive societies KW - Social sciences KW - Araucanía (Chile) KW - IX Región (Chile) KW - Región IX (Chile) KW - Novena Región (Chile) KW - 9a Región (Chile) KW - Araucanie (Chile) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7764096 AB - This volume provides an up-to-date and in-depth summary and analysis of the political practices of pre-Columbian communities of the Araucanians or Mapuche of southcentral Chile and adjacent regions. This synthesis draws upon the empirical record documented in original research, as well as a critical examination of previous studies. By applying both archaeological and ethnohistorical approaches, the latter including ethnography, this volume distinguishes itself from many other studies that explore South American archaeology. Archaeological and traditional-historical narratives of the pre-European past are considered in their own terms and for the extent to which they can be integrated in order to provide a more rounded and realistic understanding than otherwise of the origins and courses of ecological, economic, social and political changes in the south-central Andes from late pre-Hispanic times, through the contact period and up to Chile’s independence from Spain (ca. AD 1450-1810). Both the approach and the results are discussed in the light of similar situations elsewhere.   Throughout its treatment, the volume continually comes back to two central questions: (1) how did the varied practices, institutions, and worldviews of the Mapuche’s ancient communities emerge as a historical process that resisted the Spanish empire for more than 250 years, and (2) how were these communities reproduced and transformed in the face of ongoing culture contact and landscape change during the early Colonial period? These questions are considered in light of contemporary theoretical concepts regarding practice, landscape, environment, social organization, materiality, community, and what the author refers to as a teleoscopic political formation that will make the book relevant for students and scholars interested in similar processes elsewhere. ER -