Darryl Wilkinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Darryl Wilkinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Darryl |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilkinson |
| SIGNATURE | WILKINSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7017-3802 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Cities and Citadels: An Archaeology of Inequality and Economic Growth
Cities and Citadels provides an urgent update of archaeology’s engagement with economic theory. Recent events have forced a major reassessment of economic thinking. In the wake of the 2008 Great Recession and the economic impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the world finds itself in unprecedented times. Even though archaeology typically concerns itself with the remote past, it must also help us understand how we got to where we are today. This book …
The Incas and the Enlightenment: Andean Idols and European Discourses on Religion, 1550–1900
This article examines the shifting status of Inca religion in European discourse between 1550 and 1900. It is argued that a trope of Inca Exceptionalism—the idea that Inca religion was uniquely rational and admirable—can be discerned throughout this period, albeit to varying degrees, ultimately reaching a crescendo during the Enlightenment. Contrasting accounts of Aztec religion are also discussed, given the widespread tendency among European aut…
Ancient Roots of Today’s Emerging Renaissance in Psychedelic Medicine
The Geoglyph as a Medium for Anarchist Ritual
Geoglyphs are widely seen as an expression of past sacred landscapes. In this article, I offer a new theoretical approach to geoglyphs, interpreting them as a distinctly anarchic and decentralized medium for ritual activity. When we define geoglyphs as large-scale images, and exclude other phenomena such as earthworks, it is clear that their occurrence is actually quite limited in space and time. Almost all known examples of geoglyphs are located…
Infrastructure and inequality: An archaeology of the Inka road through the Amaybamba cloud forests
One of the most important ways in which material inequalities are reproduced is through state infrastructure projects. Although infrastructure has long been studied in archaeology, this has mainly been as an index of complexity and centralized government-and less so as a means to create social distinctions among human subjects. This article therefore examines a precolonial highway built under the auspices of the Inka Empire, located in the cloud …
Towards an Archaeological Theory of Infrastructure
Infrastructure makes up a considerable portion of the material culture that archaeologists study. Whether measured in terms of spatial extension or just sheer mass, infrastructural entities are often among the biggest artifacts that archaeologists encounter in the field. Yet there is no overarching theoretical framework for the archaeological study of infrastructure, and its different varieties tend to be treated in a rather piecemeal fashion. Th…
The influence of Amazonia on state formation in the ancient Andes
This article challenges the prevailing view that Amazonia played a minimal role in the development of Andean civilizations. Wilkinson argues that the Amazon basin, far from being a peripheral and isolated region, exerted a significant influence on the trajectory of state formation in the Andes. He examines archaeological and historical evidence to demonstrate the extensive networks of exchange and interaction that connected Amazonian communities …
Is There Such a Thing as Animism
Journal Article Is There Such a Thing as Animism? Get access Darryl Wilkinson Darryl Wilkinson *Darryl Wilkinson, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing St., University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK. E-mail: [email protected]. An earlier version of this article was circulated among the members of the A. W. Mellon Seminar housed in the Center for the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I particularly…
The Emperor's New Body: Personhood, Ontology and the Inka Sovereign
This article engages with current debates in archaeology with respect to matters of ontological difference — particularly in terms of bodies, personhood and the much-contested category of the individual. Drawing on early Spanish historical accounts of the material and bodily practices through which the Inka sovereign was constituted, I argue that although he was certainly not a Cartesian individual, neither was he a kind of fractal or partible pe…
The apartheid of antiquity
The term ‘antiquity’ can be used in different contexts to describe both the prehistoric past and the classical age of Graeco-Roman civilization in the western part of the Old World, a usage which glosses over the ways in which the experiential and discursive surrounds of these two pasts have been, and to some degree still are, radically different. This paper develops the notion of an ‘artefactual apartheid’ of the material remnants of the ancient…
Infrastructure and inequality: An archaeology of the Inka road through the Amaybamba cloud forests
One of the most important ways in which material inequalities are reproduced is through state infrastructure projects. Although infrastructure has long been studied in archaeology, this has mainly been as an index of complexity and centralized government-and less so as a means to create social distinctions among human subjects. This article therefore examines a precolonial highway built under the auspices of the Inka Empire, located in the cloud …
Towards an Archaeological Theory of Infrastructure
Infrastructure makes up a considerable portion of the material culture that archaeologists study. Whether measured in terms of spatial extension or just sheer mass, infrastructural entities are often among the biggest artifacts that archaeologists encounter in the field. Yet there is no overarching theoretical framework for the archaeological study of infrastructure, and its different varieties tend to be treated in a rather piecemeal fashion. Th…
The influence of Amazonia on state formation in the ancient Andes
This article challenges the prevailing view that Amazonia played a minimal role in the development of Andean civilizations. Wilkinson argues that the Amazon basin, far from being a peripheral and isolated region, exerted a significant influence on the trajectory of state formation in the Andes. He examines archaeological and historical evidence to demonstrate the extensive networks of exchange and interaction that connected Amazonian communities …
The Emperor's New Body: Personhood, Ontology and the Inka Sovereign
This article engages with current debates in archaeology with respect to matters of ontological difference — particularly in terms of bodies, personhood and the much-contested category of the individual. Drawing on early Spanish historical accounts of the material and bodily practices through which the Inka sovereign was constituted, I argue that although he was certainly not a Cartesian individual, neither was he a kind of fractal or partible pe…
The apartheid of antiquity
The term ‘antiquity’ can be used in different contexts to describe both the prehistoric past and the classical age of Graeco-Roman civilization in the western part of the Old World, a usage which glosses over the ways in which the experiential and discursive surrounds of these two pasts have been, and to some degree still are, radically different. This paper develops the notion of an ‘artefactual apartheid’ of the material remnants of the ancient…
The Geoglyph as a Medium for Anarchist Ritual
Geoglyphs are widely seen as an expression of past sacred landscapes. In this article, I offer a new theoretical approach to geoglyphs, interpreting them as a distinctly anarchic and decentralized medium for ritual activity. When we define geoglyphs as large-scale images, and exclude other phenomena such as earthworks, it is clear that their occurrence is actually quite limited in space and time. Almost all known examples of geoglyphs are located…
Is There Such a Thing as Animism
Journal Article Is There Such a Thing as Animism? Get access Darryl Wilkinson Darryl Wilkinson *Darryl Wilkinson, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing St., University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK. E-mail: [email protected]. An earlier version of this article was circulated among the members of the A. W. Mellon Seminar housed in the Center for the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I particularly…
The apartheid of antiquity
The term ‘antiquity’ can be used in different contexts to describe both the prehistoric past and the classical age of Graeco-Roman civilization in the western part of the Old World, a usage which glosses over the ways in which the experiential and discursive surrounds of these two pasts have been, and to some degree still are, radically different. This paper develops the notion of an ‘artefactual apartheid’ of the material remnants of the ancient…
The Emperor's New Body: Personhood, Ontology and the Inka Sovereign
This article engages with current debates in archaeology with respect to matters of ontological difference — particularly in terms of bodies, personhood and the much-contested category of the individual. Drawing on early Spanish historical accounts of the material and bodily practices through which the Inka sovereign was constituted, I argue that although he was certainly not a Cartesian individual, neither was he a kind of fractal or partible pe…
Is There Such a Thing as Animism
Journal Article Is There Such a Thing as Animism? Get access Darryl Wilkinson Darryl Wilkinson *Darryl Wilkinson, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing St., University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3ER, UK. E-mail: [email protected]. An earlier version of this article was circulated among the members of the A. W. Mellon Seminar housed in the Center for the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I particularly…
Towards an Archaeological Theory of Infrastructure
Infrastructure makes up a considerable portion of the material culture that archaeologists study. Whether measured in terms of spatial extension or just sheer mass, infrastructural entities are often among the biggest artifacts that archaeologists encounter in the field. Yet there is no overarching theoretical framework for the archaeological study of infrastructure, and its different varieties tend to be treated in a rather piecemeal fashion. Th…
The influence of Amazonia on state formation in the ancient Andes
This article challenges the prevailing view that Amazonia played a minimal role in the development of Andean civilizations. Wilkinson argues that the Amazon basin, far from being a peripheral and isolated region, exerted a significant influence on the trajectory of state formation in the Andes. He examines archaeological and historical evidence to demonstrate the extensive networks of exchange and interaction that connected Amazonian communities …
Infrastructure and inequality: An archaeology of the Inka road through the Amaybamba cloud forests
One of the most important ways in which material inequalities are reproduced is through state infrastructure projects. Although infrastructure has long been studied in archaeology, this has mainly been as an index of complexity and centralized government-and less so as a means to create social distinctions among human subjects. This article therefore examines a precolonial highway built under the auspices of the Inka Empire, located in the cloud …
The Geoglyph as a Medium for Anarchist Ritual
Geoglyphs are widely seen as an expression of past sacred landscapes. In this article, I offer a new theoretical approach to geoglyphs, interpreting them as a distinctly anarchic and decentralized medium for ritual activity. When we define geoglyphs as large-scale images, and exclude other phenomena such as earthworks, it is clear that their occurrence is actually quite limited in space and time. Almost all known examples of geoglyphs are located…
Ancient Roots of Today’s Emerging Renaissance in Psychedelic Medicine
Cities and Citadels: An Archaeology of Inequality and Economic Growth
Cities and Citadels provides an urgent update of archaeology’s engagement with economic theory. Recent events have forced a major reassessment of economic thinking. In the wake of the 2008 Great Recession and the economic impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the world finds itself in unprecedented times. Even though archaeology typically concerns itself with the remote past, it must also help us understand how we got to where we are today. This book …
The Incas and the Enlightenment: Andean Idols and European Discourses on Religion, 1550–1900
This article examines the shifting status of Inca religion in European discourse between 1550 and 1900. It is argued that a trope of Inca Exceptionalism—the idea that Inca religion was uniquely rational and admirable—can be discerned throughout this period, albeit to varying degrees, ultimately reaching a crescendo during the Enlightenment. Contrasting accounts of Aztec religion are also discussed, given the widespread tendency among European aut…
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