 BAR S1478 2006: Kay Pacha: Cultivating Earth and Water in the Andes edited by Penelope Dransart. ISBN 1841719137. £37.00. iv+245 pages; illustrated throughout with tables, figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs. Papers in English and Spanish.
This volume derives from a symposium held at the University of Wales, Lampeter, in April 1998. The 24 papers cover a wide range of archaeological and ethnographical interests. (1) Introduction: terrains of significance in the Andes (Penelope Dransart); (2) Pacha – space and time in the Huarochirí manuscript (Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz); (3) Mountains historicized: ancestors and landscape in the colonial Andes (Peter Gose); (4) Tierra, producción y música en el área agrícola de Parinacota: el caso del rito de Pachallampi (Manuel Mamani Mamani); (5) The Devil and María Picha Picha at San Antonio del Nuevo Mundo: a pachakuti in the colonial past of a mining area (Maggie Bolton); (6) A visual representation of pachakuti: the role of footwear in Guaman Poma (Adrian Locke); (7) Boundary practice and historical consciousness in Spain and Peru (David Guillet); (8) Stone: Spanish ‘mojon’ as a translation of Quechua and Aymara terms for ‘limit’ (Lindsey Crickmay); (9) Mapping contested boundaries: Andean and Andeanist mapping in the central Ecuadorian Andes (Nicole Bourque); (10) ‘Vengeance is sweet’: a herdswoman’s recompense in the music of the Mantaro Valley (Barbara Bradby); (11) The animated soundscape and the mountain’s bones (Henry Stobart); (12) Reading without words: landscapes and symbolic objects as repositories of knowledge and meaning (Astvaldur Astvaldsson); (14) Taira rock art: a powerful setting for camelid herders (Flora Vilches); (15) El contexto ecológico y económico del arte rupestre en la arqueología de la puna meridional argentina (M. Mercedes Podestá and Daniel Olivera); (16) The role of the challada in llama culling (Puna of Atacama, Argentina)(Hugo Yacobaccio and Marcela Malmierca); (17) Changing subsistence, settlement and administrative strategies during the late Preceramic and Initial Period in the Casma Valley of Peru (Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski); (18) Prehistoric Chimú irrigation strategies on the Peruvian north coast (Thomas Pozorski and Shelia Pozorski); (19) Cultural and environmental change in the Cuzco region of Peru: the rural development implications of combined archaeological and palaeoecological evidence (Ann Kendall and Alex Chepstow-Lusty); (20) Ritual movements in Cuzco (R. Tom Zuidema); (21) Somos como Incas: los varayoq de Pisac en los 90 (Beatriz Perez); 22. Mimesis as participation: imagery, style and function of the Michael C. Carlos Museum paccha, an Inka ritual watering device (Rebecca Stone-Miller); (23) The potter’s art in the Andes: art or ritual? (George Bankes); (24) Rumi: an ethnolinguistic approach to the symbolism of stone(s) in the Andes (Rosaleen Howard).
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