As Wari Weakened: Ritual Transitions in the Terminal Middle Horizon of Moquegua, Peru
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Donna Nash, Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Empires are expansive states that incorporate other groups. Their extension may result from conquest, colonization, marriage alliance, or in modern times, purchase. These processes can be disruptive to subordinate groups but may also open up new trade routes and offer opportunities to cooperative individuals. Successful, long-lived empires find ways to integrate subordinate polities and typically devise a range of strategies to do so. In other words, imperial polities that fall apart after a hundred years or so are more common than those that manage to maintain cooperation among elite ranks and stay together over the course of several centuries. The formation of strong relationships that maintain such polities are often constituted as state institutions, which involve a relatively standard set of activities, some of which were rituals. These rituals do not have to pertain to religion, but may have promoted adherence to ideals, legitimized the power of state officials, and reified the existence of the state within the natural order of things.
As Wari Weakened: Ritual Transitions in the Terminal Middle Horizon of Moquegua, Peru
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Ritual in Collapsing and Regenerating Archaic States, edited by Joanne Murphy, pp. 77-99. London: Routledge.
- Language: English
- Date: 2020
- Keywords
- Wari Empire, Moquegua, ritual, iconography, Middle Horizon