análisis del espacio urbano y arqueología histórica de América
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Ciudad, espacio urbano y arqueología
Author: Henri Galinié
Publisher: Universitat de València
Published: 2015-05-16
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13: 8437089476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLa "fábrica urbana" plantea un marco conceptual y un utillaje teórico para comprender por qué una ciudad es como es en su estado final, en su resultado observable. A partir del producto final de la ciudad, del espacio, como la percibimos hoy, y de la visión del proceso histórico que nos ofrece la arqueología, podemos entender cómo fue la acción social que le otorgó una determinada identidad y configuración, el «texto» primigenio que otorga carta de nacimiento a ese espacio. Las aportaciones de Weber, Bourdieu, Elias o el geógrafo Di Méo ayudan al autor a construir una lectura de las sociedades en el espacio. El libro plantea un marco conceptual y un utillaje teórico para formular los interrogantes adecuados que permitan comprender por qué una ciudad es como es en su estado final, en su resultado observable.
Las ciudades mayas: un urbanismo de America Latina
Author: Schavelzon Daniel
Publisher: CP67
Published: 2021-06-01
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9873409629
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEste libro, un poco insólito en nuestro medio tan urbano, occidental aunque de ciudades trazadas en base a grillas reticuladas, y en una Facultad en que ha primado el pensamiento y la reflexión basada en cánones externos al continente, trata no sólo sobre las ciudades sino sobre la forma en que se construyó el conocimiento sobre ellas, de las personas y mecanismos intelectuales que lentamente fueron colocando los ladrillos necesarios para edificar esa estructura, a veces endeble por cierto, pero que ya existe; dicho en forma simple: cómo se logró que unas ruinas desconocidas para Occidente fueran entendidas, comprendidas e interpretadas; y de los errores, los caminos recorridos inútilmente y las causas de estos desvíos. ¿En qué medida los estudios recientes sobre los asentamientos y el territorio maya sufren de los mismos problemas que los estudios sobre la estructura interna de todas las ciudades prehispánicas? Este texto intenta revisar el recorrido de estos estudios, sus resultados y mostrar lo que se ha logrado y lo que conlleva como carga historiográfica producto de la misma evolución del conocimiento tanto arqueológico como de historia urbana y de la arquitectura. Muestra cómo algunos conceptos relacionados con las formas del uso social del espacio surgieron y se aceptaron; y cómo, a pesar de la información arqueológica contraria ya existente en ese entonces, se fueron igualmente difundiendo. Fue necesario mucho trabajo y medio siglo para lograr romper con eso y aceptar la compleja urbanización de estas grandes ciudades, para luego comenzar a estudiar su entorno y su territorio. Esta obra trata de revisar estos problemas y entender así el estado actual del tema.
International Handbook of Historical Archaeology
Author: Teresita Majewski
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-06-07
Total Pages: 689
ISBN-13: 0387720715
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn studying the past, archaeologists have focused on the material remains of our ancestors. Prehistorians generally have only artifacts to study and rely on the diverse material record for their understanding of past societies and their behavior. Those involved in studying historically documented cultures not only have extensive material remains but also contemporary texts, images, and a range of investigative technologies to enable them to build a broader and more reflexive picture of how past societies, communities, and individuals operated and behaved. Increasingly, historical archaeology refers not to a particular period, place, or a method, but rather an approach that interrogates the tensions between artifacts and texts irrespective of context. In short, historical archaeology provides direct evidence for how humans have shaped the world we live in today. Historical archaeology is a branch of global archaeology that has grown in the last 40 years from its North American base into an increasingly global community of archaeologists each studying their area of the world in a historical context. Where historical archaeology started as part of the study of the post-Columbian societies of the United States and Canada, it has now expanded to interface with the post-medieval archaeologies of Europe and the diverse post-imperial experiences of Africa, Latin America, and Australasia. The 36 essays in the International Handbook of Historical Archaeology have been specially commissioned from the leading researchers in their fields, creating a wide-ranging digest of the increasingly global field of historical archaeology. The volume is divided into two sections, the first reviewing the key themes, issues, and approaches of historical archaeology today, and the second containing a series of case studies charting the development and current state of historical archaeological practice around the world. This key reference work captures the energy and diversity of this global discipline today.
Archaeology of Culture Contact and Colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America
Author: Pedro Paulo A. Funari
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-11-11
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 3319080695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volume contributes to disrupt the old grand narrative of cultural contact and colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America in a wide and complete sense. This edited volume aims at exploring contact archaeology in the modern era. Archaeology has been exploring the interaction of peoples and cultures from early times, but only in the last few decades have cultural contact and material world been recognized as crucial elements to understanding colonialism and the emergence of modernity. Modern colonialism studies pose questions in need of broader answers. This volume explores these answers in Spanish and Portuguese America, comprising present-day Latin America and formerly Spanish territories now part of the United States. The volume addresses studies of the particular features of Spanish-Portuguese colonialism, as well as the specificities of Iberian colonization, including hybridism, religious novelties, medieval and modern social features, all mixed in a variety of ways unique and so different from other areas, particularly the Anglo-Saxon colonial thrust. Cultural contact studies offer a particularly in-depth picture of the uniqueness of Latin America in terms of its cultural mixture. This volume particularly highlights local histories, revealing novelty, diversity, and creativity in the conformation of the new colonial realities, as well as presenting Latin America as a multicultural arena, with astonishing heterogeneity in thoughts, experiences, practices, and, material worlds.
Current Research in Archaeology of South American Pampas
Author: Gustavo Federico Bonnat
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 303155194X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Inka Empire
Author: Izumi Shimada
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2015-06-01
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 1477303936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMassive yet elegantly executed masonry architecture and andenes (agricultural terraces) set against majestic and seemingly boundless Andean landscapes, roads built in defiance of rugged terrains, and fine textiles with orderly geometric designs—all were created within the largest political system in the ancient New World, a system headed, paradoxically, by a single, small minority group without wheeled vehicles, markets, or a writing system, the Inka. For some 130 years (ca. A.D. 1400 to 1533), the Inka ruled over at least eighty-six ethnic groups in an empire that encompassed about 2 million square kilometers, from the northernmost region of the Ecuador–Colombia border to northwest Argentina. The Inka Empire brings together leading international scholars from many complementary disciplines, including human genetics, linguistics, textile and architectural studies, ethnohistory, and archaeology, to present a state-of-the-art, holistic, and in-depth vision of the Inkas. The contributors provide the latest data and understandings of the political, demographic, and linguistic evolution of the Inkas, from the formative era prior to their political ascendancy to their post-conquest transformation. The scholars also offer an updated vision of the unity, diversity, and essence of the material, organizational, and symbolic-ideological features of the Inka Empire. As a whole, The Inka Empire demonstrates the necessity and value of a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates the insights of fields beyond archaeology and ethnohistory. And with essays by scholars from seven countries, it reflects the cosmopolitanism that has characterized Inka studies ever since its beginnings in the nineteenth century.
Approaches to the historical archaeology of Mexico, Central & South America
Author: Patricia Fournier Garcia
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Published: 1997-12-31
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1950446069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Buenos Aires Reader
Author: Diego Armus
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2024-09-20
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1478059850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Buenos Aires Reader offers an insider’s look at the diverse lived experiences of the people, politics, and culture of Argentina’s capital city primarily from the nineteenth century to the present. Refuting the tired cliché that Buenos Aires is the “Paris of South America,” this book gives a nuanced view of a city that has long been attentive to international trends yet never ceases to celebrate its local culture. The vibrant opinions, reflections, and voices of Buenos Aires come to life through selections that range from songs, poems, letters, and essays to interviews, cartoons, paintings, and historical documents, many of which have been translated into English for the first time. These selections tell the story of the city’s culture of protest and celebration, its passion for soccer and sport, its gastronomy and food traditions, its legendary nightlife, and its musical, literary, and artistic cultures. Providing an unparalleled look at Buenos Aires’s history, culture, and politics, this volume is an ideal companion for anyone interested in this dynamic, disruptive, and inventive city.
Entangled Heritages
Author: Olaf Kaltmeier
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07-01
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1317142810
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelying on the concept of a shared history, this book argues that we can speak of a shared heritage that is common in terms of the basic grammar of heritage and articulated histories, but divided alongside the basic difference between colonizers and colonized. This problematic is also evident in contemporary uses of the past. The last decades were crucial to the emergence of new debates: subcultures, new identities, hidden voices and multicultural discourse as a kind of new hegemonic platform also involving concepts of heritage and/or memory. Thereby we can observe a proliferation of heritage agents, especially beyond the scope of the nation state. This volume gets beyond a container vision of heritage that seeks to construct a diachronical continuity in a given territory. Instead, authors point out the relational character of heritage focusing on transnational and translocal flows and interchanges of ideas, concepts, and practices, as well as on the creation of contact zones where the meaning of heritage is negotiated and contested. Exploring the relevance of the politics of heritage and the uses of memory in the consolidation of these nation states, as well as in the current disputes over resistances, hidden memories, undermined pasts, or the politics of nostalgia, this book seeks to seize the local/global dimensions around heritage.
