{"product_id":"the-archaeology-of-wakas-tamara-l-bray-9781607327318","title":"The Archaeology of Wak'as: Explorations of the Sacred in the Pre-Columbian Andes","description":"In this edited volume, Andean wak'as--idols, statues, sacred places, images, and oratories--play a central role in understanding Andean social philosophies, cosmologies, materialities, temporalities, and constructions of personhood. Top Andean scholars from a variety of disciplines cross regional, theoretical, and material boundaries in their chapters, offering innovative methods and theoretical frameworks for interpreting the cultural particulars of Andean ontologies and notions of the sacred.\u003cp\u003eWak'as were understood as agentive, nonhuman persons within many Andean communities and were fundamental to conceptions of place, alimentation, fertility, identity, and memory and the political construction of ecology and life cycles. The ethnohistoric record indicates that wak'as were thought to speak, hear, and communicate, both among themselves and with humans. In their capacity as nonhuman persons, they shared familial relations with members of the community, for instance, young women were wed to local wak'as made of stone and wak'as had sons and daughters who were identified as the mummified remains of the community's revered ancestors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntegrating linguistic, ethnohistoric, ethnographic, and archaeological data, \u003ci\u003eThe Archaeology of Wak'as\u003c\/i\u003e advances our understanding of the nature and culture of wak'as and contributes to the larger theoretical discussions on the meaning and role of-\"the sacred\" in ancient contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tamara L. Bray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1607327317\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781607327318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Colorado\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10d","brand":"Tamara L. Bray","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44598746972415,"sku":"9781607327318","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_31b71c73-a13f-4440-b25f-086f90d3b3c0.jpg?v=1702384203","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-archaeology-of-wakas-tamara-l-bray-9781607327318","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}