Narrating from landscape in Andean archaeology: The problem with the suni natural region

IF 1.6 2区 历史学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Journal of Social Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI:10.1177/14696053221094319
G. Ramón, M. Bell
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Archaeologists use the landscape to explain the past, often referring to traditional or indigenous knowledge to better understand that landscape. But how is this analogical process performed, and how is indigenous knowledge understood and recorded? This article examines Peruvian geographer Javier Pulgar Vidal’s concept of suni—a term with several definitions in Aymara and Quechua, but which was transformed by Pulgar Vidal into a “Natural Region,” in other words a meaningful portion of the landscape—as an entry point into this broader issue. Suni is important because it is a poorly defined part of a wider Andean landscape model supposedly based on indigenous knowledge and because it is commonly used by archaeologists to explain precolonial land use and landscapes. Through analysis of the creation and application of suni, we define major challenges faced by archaeologists when interpreting sites and materials in landscape perspective and present suggestions for moving forward.
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安第斯考古中的景观叙事:苏尼自然区的问题
考古学家利用景观来解释过去,经常参考传统或土著知识来更好地理解景观。但是,这种类比过程是如何进行的,土著知识是如何被理解和记录的?这篇文章探讨了秘鲁地理学家哈维尔·普尔加·维达尔的suni概念——这个词在艾马拉和克丘亚有几个定义,但被普尔加·维达尔转变为“自然区域”,换句话说,是景观的一个有意义的部分——作为这个更广泛问题的切入点。苏尼之所以重要,是因为它是更广泛的安第斯景观模型中定义不清的一部分,该模型据称基于土著知识,而且考古学家通常使用它来解释殖民前的土地使用和景观。通过分析苏尼的创作和应用,我们定义了考古学家在从景观角度解读遗址和材料时面临的主要挑战,并提出了前进的建议。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Social Archaeology is a fully peer reviewed international journal that promotes interdisciplinary research focused on social approaches in archaeology, opening up new debates and areas of exploration. It engages with and contributes to theoretical developments from other related disciplines such as feminism, queer theory, postcolonialism, social geography, literary theory, politics, anthropology, cognitive studies and behavioural science. It is explicitly global in outlook with temporal parameters from prehistory to recent periods. As well as promoting innovative social interpretations of the past, it also encourages an exploration of contemporary politics and heritage issues.
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