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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A bioarchaeological study of chosen women's labor, identity, and health in the Inka ceremonial center of SaqsaywamanChosen Women and Inka Statecraft illuminates the intersections between foodways, diet, gender, and power in the expansive Inka ceremonial complex of Saqsaywaman, Peru. Bioarchaeologist Bethany L. Turner weaves together geochemical and osteological research techniques to create osteobiographies for people who were likely special servants to the Inka royalty in the heart of the vast empire. These skeletal individuals, interred in a special cemetery atop Saqsaywaman, date to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and were previously excavated by Peruvian archaeologists.By weaving her own data together with existing archaeological, osteological, and ethnohistoric studies of Saqsaywaman, Turner opens a rare window into everyday life among the aqllakuna, "chosen women" who grew, prepared, and served food and drink to the Inka elite. She argues that the embodied experiences of these individuals underscore the ways in which they were "made performative artifacts of Inka statecraft." This statecraft was based on reciprocity, "to feed and be fed," and the lived experiences of the people who lived under it left telltale signs in their bones and teeth. An important finding is that the aqllakuna, who prepared lavish feasts and heroic quantities of the finest maize beer, chicha, were likely not consuming it. However, they showed poor dental health as a result of chewing the maize to process it during brewing. This significant oral decay likely made them susceptible to chronic diseases and may have shortened their lives. Turner also asserts that the aqllakuna at Saqsaywaman included individuals whose skeletons were estimated to have been male but who likely performed feminine roles, reflecting the fluidity of gendered duality in indigenous Andean cosmology. In Chosen Women and Inka Statecraft, archaeologists, anthropologists, Andeanists, and food scholars will find new ways to consider life in the Inka past. Chosen Women and Inka Statecraft explores how gendered labor, food production, and ceremonial service shaped identity and health in the Inka Empire. Through osteobiographical analysis, Bethany L. Turner reveals how elite servants embodied key aspects of Inka statecraft, particularly through their roles in preparing and serving food and drink. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book synthesizes in-depth bioarchaeological research into diet, subsistence regimes, and nutrition-and corresponding insights into adaptation, suffering, and resilience-among indigenous north-coastal Peruvian communities from early agricultural through European colonial periods.The Spanish invasion and colonization of Andean South America left millions dead, landscapes transformed, and traditional ways of life annihilated. However, the nature and magnitude of these changes were far from uniform. By the time the Spanish arrived, over four millennia of complex societies had emerged and fallen, and in the 16thcentury, the region was home to the largest and most expansive indigenous empire in the western hemisphere.Decades of Andean archaeological and ethnohistorical research have explored the incredible sophistication of regional agropastoral traditions, the importance of food and feasting as mechanisms of control, and the significance of maritime economies in the consolidation of complex polities. Bioarchaeology is particularly useful in studying these processes. Beyond identifying what resources were available and how they were prepared, bioarchaeological methods provide unique opportunities and humanized perspectives to reconstruct what individuals actually ate, and whether their diets changed within their own lifespans.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Chosen Women and Inka Statecraft | Bioarchaeology, Gender, and Foodways at Saqsaywaman | Bethany L Turner | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2026 | University of Alabama Press | EAN 9780817362652 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, 4831 GR BREDA, NIEDERLANDE, gpsr[at]mare-nostrum[dot]co[dot]uk | Anbieter: preigu.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Diet, Nutrition, and Foodways on the North Coast of Peru | Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Adaptive Transitions | Bethany L. Turner (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | xviii | Englisch | 2021 | Springer | EAN 9783030426163 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. A bioarchaeological study of chosen women's labor, identity, and health in the Inka ceremonial center of SaqsaywamanChosen Women and Inka Statecraft illuminates the intersections between foodways, diet, gender, and power in the expansive Inka ceremonial complex of Saqsaywaman, Peru. Bioarchaeologist Bethany L. Turner weaves together geochemical and osteological research techniques to create osteobiographies for people who were likely special servants to the Inka royalty in the heart of the vast empire. These skeletal individuals, interred in a special cemetery atop Saqsaywaman, date to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and were previously excavated by Peruvian archaeologists.By weaving her own data together with existing archaeological, osteological, and ethnohistoric studies of Saqsaywaman, Turner opens a rare window into everyday life among the aqllakuna, "chosen women" who grew, prepared, and served food and drink to the Inka elite. She argues that the embodied experiences of these individuals underscore the ways in which they were "made performative artifacts of Inka statecraft." This statecraft was based on reciprocity, "to feed and be fed," and the lived experiences of the people who lived under it left telltale signs in their bones and teeth. An important finding is that the aqllakuna, who prepared lavish feasts and heroic quantities of the finest maize beer, chicha, were likely not consuming it. However, they showed poor dental health as a result of chewing the maize to process it during brewing. This significant oral decay likely made them susceptible to chronic diseases and may have shortened their lives. Turner also asserts that the aqllakuna at Saqsaywaman included individuals whose skeletons were estimated to have been male but who likely performed feminine roles, reflecting the fluidity of gendered duality in indigenous Andean cosmology. In Chosen Women and Inka Statecraft, archaeologists, anthropologists, Andeanists, and food scholars will find new ways to consider life in the Inka past. Chosen Women and Inka Statecraft explores how gendered labor, food production, and ceremonial service shaped identity and health in the Inka Empire. Through osteobiographical analysis, Bethany L. Turner reveals how elite servants embodied key aspects of Inka statecraft, particularly through their roles in preparing and serving food and drink. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…