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2 Caving Wi ne Manone Stee and Sie A dni Ppt thepag ‘ee dn Mier eran 2cot arcane dun ope gtd: Ln kaif rec am Gun ea oa S94 he Ce Sen of Cu: Theron fs ‘na ned ps See yhand itor at et Te of Sect hoy on Mt icy Rs en Tey ene ‘eka Cuni Raya Superhero ies of Water on Peru's North Coast , ontologies of water on er’ North Coast ake slant thee of this volume, and at pre-Columbian archaea! sets lf an admit imposible ask by asking imaginaies of water something we can, by debiion, reconstruct. It then assembles divers kind ference Periods an thnohistorc documenta Quechua word, pot—in search oanewers. Such project sme exo unlike a neatly designed empirical stay, whi ca tion of wel dctmented coclson ett x ty and unsettle any compacences we might have our work al pics neo the bedrock questions of wheter, and how our conceptl categories muy pre rome ofthe things the archaeological record ha 0 indigenous ontologies of water in the pst maya on conversions about the plies of mater inthe present pus cra fal eons to rowing public sep Project desig to“ wercome nature" Ane plies {i the Andes during the 2000 Baia water wars and in afer the 2005 food of New Orleans daring Huriane Americas activi are linking environmental cases 0 coalition that Bote symbolic frit inthe 2008 tio, which explikl rants plc ight nd agency ‘oPacha Mama, or Mother Earth Aathropogenilinute urgency to the question of how tive with dangerous a weather events sich a mas Hoang the lng istry ft North Cassone plc ooo or answers ‘Thearchacologial eo of he North Coast of Peril fa places from the cals monumental architecture the imperial Chan Chan nly cultural devopees ws dant martin sources and ft river valleys oer tine transformed vast expanses of desert int productive acl Postivesignifcance of watrn the human history of the lished in Michel Mosley’ pthresking wrk The Marine “Andean Civilization (979, bt archaeoogists—and rsd long een aware ofits the poten a force for destruct tavironment hati described inthe archalogical iterate ony fertile as reguerty described as anustally dif Fisk prone” (Dilhay and Kolats 2004373 se lo Cara Dillehay apd Kaas 2004339. ‘Waters most destructive form sa El Ni, which Angh ‘ero as EI Nido southern oxilation (ENSO) which the cold wate ofthe Hum Current i displaced a Intrusion of warm wae. Bers, researchers also employ {fenomeno FLNito (FEN). Thisterm optresthe on ton: torrential ais, aesive flooding, and changing water The region’ rich marin ie dsrptds ome specie dsp ‘erssudenly appear. On the shore, het of water strike wi ‘coming dwn fom the sky nd p fom the ocean and ters receding fodwaters eval a tanslormed geography (oat {avado-Casimir etal. 201; Mad 2000, This per ask ow Inhabitants the North Coast epondd tothis eniltin snd destrcton, Inasking his question, 1am mindful of the words of Pe logis Marisol dels Caden, who says that we and onjancture. converging on ecological, economia (@ela Caden 2010326 This confluence vas ingens mental activism nthe Americas, wel a intelectual ing devon studies, politcal ecolgy andthe "ontlgial un strong resonances betwen these emergent idea nd extblibe Cnt Raya Soper sree we hae long been invaved in mapping whatare now romolgis Bat den Cadena calls thisconjuncturean is that we hate aot yet fully grasped and she urges as “low in the fe of ofthis ome, hv tit sdow dowaou thinking ender re feming terms ofr le powerful place a ther dfstionl limits. This paper asks whether we might nto Andean pehistory~and into human relationships 0 and place more generally by urnngtoconeps tha are less hman-cntered, and more uid tha those weiner nineteenth and twenh-centuy predcesors Swenson an enings ate in hindu, the word tv diferent orm ni vole rdona sens for orn nthe Ande, pita Sinan and» chal cena agente ees” human and Ine fot eto fs pape “lid Thoughts tel ew aeton othe erm vi foes (Benne 209) 8 tas ean ies. or he ot part went cent ec ed the clash between hes wo kindof power nan nto, secngplical eso preceding band in pester corel ove nature which nora bee by elies pri A dicas a er me ve uioned dee buna dorian of natarewith t cer dei oie usclChisinn/uni radon on he onehand and Japon onthe other nies appicae And while his en mon pointed in contri rately egalitarian ci West some Andean ave rgd fori redevance 0 otc soch be peri Ik nhs eth oper alent cthnopapic record eplre Mtneoos mig hve concerned hel reatoships herman worl and withthe geopysea nd metrogel! myrtle cod section, Sopeera” Tet hans rode! of human dination set ner hing on for tae eltins mht eben hat fRnsip form ‘of relation between persons that was dynamic, unequal, nd Places. By including this paper which deals wih weather and Volume on “powerful places” the editors offer an expended the archcologial study a place On the North Coast water a fore that shapes local ansapes, bt otis landscape oe ‘Weather and water are not “lan” and ther kinetic, evanescent exceed and overrun the word cape Acording to Beat Mat Edgeworth such cneeptal mismatches reve eno the archacology of landscape, where fort to capre the social, materia, geolgi, meteorlogcl, nd biological change ith the inherent sass ofthe concep of cape (Edgeworth sou lng from the “archaeology of landscape” to an “archaeology of mayb adopting forms of thinking that moe col appoint ancient Andean. In the third section of this pape parse ha ‘ought through an analysis ofthe ionography and farm of Sel asking whether it might not nly representa deity in human sso wea more material language to embry thei force of thes Following Manheim (21) argu tht we push past our own ‘on things rather than processes, oles cathe han elatonsipn rather than verbs, we may more fully understand the natura ‘word ofthe North Coast whee indigenous Peruvians cohabated Jong and so sccesfully wth the mobile, volatile aquatic fore that both kin and foe Anesth intoductio this volume, Jennings and Swenson agus despite important dieencesin Andean philosophies and costa Place between Moche, Inka, Wai and ethers, the Andes basco ‘coherence "an exceptional socio spatil world characerined by 2 relational ontlogy in which places, peoples, and things formed pat ‘eterdependent and animated celctivity. history is the produce "pl imerconnected agents, bth human ad nonhuman, and mature

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