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A DISRUPTED DESERT, A BUDDING REPUBLIC: CAUDILLISMO AND POLITICAL STRUGGLES IN SOUTHERN PERU (TARAPACÁ 1842-1858)

UN DESIERTO CONVULSIONADO, UNA REPÚBLICA EN CIERNES: CAUDILLISMO Y PUGNAS POLÍTICAS EN EL EXTREMO SUR DEL PERÚ (TARAPACÁ 1842-1858)

Luis Castro Castro

The Battle of Tarapacá in 1842 was a socio-political turning point for the Tarapacá Province as it showed the consolidation of saltpeter businessmen as a corporate group with distinct economic and political interests. Eventually and rather hastily, this made them clash with the remnants of the former dominant group, whose origins lay in silver mining and agriculture. In this context, this article aims to describe and analyze a rarely addressed period and an absolutely forgotten process, namely, how the groups with power of the Tarapacá Province understood and what stance they took on the constant revolts and revolutions in Peru between 1840 and 1850, where the unique scenario, on the one hand, strained the local dynamics with the general processes and, on the other, aggravated the continuing conflict arising from the efforts of the Tarapacá inhabitants to promote the saltpeter industry and the emergence of a local caudillismo willing to fight for small amounts of power.

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OF TIMES AND TIDES: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF TIME AMONG SMALL- SCALE FISHERMEN IN THE SOUTH OF CHILE. THE CASE OF CHILOÉ

DE TIEMPOS Y DE MAREAS: CONSTRUCCIÓN SOCIAL DEL TIEMPO ENTRE PESCADORES ARTESANALES DEL SUR DE CHILE. EL CASO DE CHILOÉ

Guadalupe Valencia García, Asunción Díaz Álvarez, Francisco Ther-Ríos and Gonzalo Saavedra Gallo

We believe that time as a social representation and a form of arranging collective experience can express the ways in which small-scale fishermen from Chiloé organize and ensure their survival as a defined social group. To this purpose, they use a common memory and time-related orientations towards the future. In this paper, we aim to analyze how they perceive, organize, and experience time as strategies to creatively confront new conditions of life, fostered by accelerated transformations of their environment. The results that we present here are sorted out into two sections: one showing how the time-space conceptual coupling in Chiloé gains great richness in the bordering life of the shores; the other analyzing the main narratives that organize the existence of small-scale fishermen and fisherwomen in Chiloé timewise.

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CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFICACY OF THE LEAST-COST PATH IN THE PREDICTIVE STUDY OF QHAPAQ ÑAN

EVALUACIÓN CRÍTICA DE LA EFICACIA DEL CAMINO DE MENOR COSTE PARA EL ESTUDIO PREDICTIVO DEL QHAPAQ ÑAN

Pablo Mignone

The Inca road system, with an extension of 60,000 km, is the largest archaeological object in the Americas. This substantial characteristic makes it an object of study and preservation from a scientific and heritage perspective. Accordingly, different methodologies have begun to be adopted to record it and interpret it, including geomatic modeling. In this context, this work aims to assess whether the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) techniques, such as the Least-Cost Path calculation, which is commonly used in archeology, can be applied to the study of the Qhapaq Ñan, or, on the contrary, and as the few historical data show in this regard, it is better to use other less economistic techniques that include a more comprehensive look of the human experience in the landscape. To assess the applicability of this space technique, four sections of Inca roads were studied in the Prepuna and Puna areas of the province of Salta, Argentina, which, during the Cuzco occupation, played a key role in the control of productive activities and in symbolic terms.

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OSTEOARTHROSIS IN HUNTER-GATHERERS OF CENTRAL-SOUTHERN PATAGONIA (SANTA CRUZ, ARGENTINA) DURING THE LATE HOLOCENE: AN APPROXIMATION TO THE ACTIVITY PATTERNS

OSTEOARTHROSIS IN HUNTER-GATHERERS OF CENTRAL-SOUTHERN PATAGONIA (SANTA CRUZ, ARGENTINA) DURING THE LATE HOLOCENE: AN APPROXIMATION TO THE ACTIVITY PATTERNS

Milena Constanza Morlesín y Solana García Guraieb

Osteoarthrosis (OA), a condition caused, among many other factors, by repeated physical activity, is the most commonly found pathological bone modification in human skeletal remains. Accordingly, it has been frequently studied from a bioarchaeological perspective, in order to identify the patterns of activity of populations that preceded us. This study aims to analyze the bone modifications in the spine and the appendicular joints of 14 adult individuals of both sexes from the Late Holocene found in the Salitroso Lake basin (Santa Cruz, Argentina). The objectives are (a) to evaluate the paleoepidemiology patterns and its relationship with other arthropathies (e.g. Schmorl’s nodes); and (b) to explore the connection between OA variation patterns and aspects such as sex and age. This information will contribute to the knowledge of human behavior regarding body use and performed activities within the context of the climatic shifts and organizational changes that affected this population during the late Holocene. The data reveal that, with few differences between sexes, all the individuals exhibit OA and that the prevalence of OA is higher in older individuals and in those whose chronology is between ca. 800 and 350 years BP.

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AN INCA “EPIC HYMN” IN A COLONIAL QUERO: PRESENTATION AND PRELIMINARY STUDY

UN “CANTAR DE GESTA” INCA EN UN QUERO COLONIAL: PRESENTACIÓN Y ESTUDIO PRELIMINAR

Mariusz Ziółkowski and Sylwia Siemianowska

The existence of an Inca tradition of narrative pictorial representations, acting as historical records, has been substantiated by both a group of works of art, very probably of pre-Hispanic origin, and written sources. Clearly, the best known reference to “historical paintings” of the Incas is that regarding the famous, today dissapeared “tables of Poquen Cancha,” which existed and were consulted until mid-1560s at least. It has been postulated that, during the Colonial period, part of these “historical paintings” may have been copied on different types of media, such as canvases and queros. In this article, the authors analyze the scene of an armed conflict represented in a quero, unusual in terms of its complexity and richness of detail, and put forth the hypothesis that it may be the representation of the conflict between the Incas and the Chancas.

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