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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