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Understanding Middle Horizon Peru

Hermeneutic Spirals, Interpretative Traditions, and Wari Administrative Centers

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ID4777569
AuthorsJ Jennings (0000-0003-1323-153X, Royal Ontario Museum, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume17
Issue3
Pages265-285
Publication date2006-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1045-6635 • E-ISSN: 2325-5080
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/25063053
OpenAlexW2323375801
LanguageEN
Citations received25
References cited100

During the Middle Horizon (A.D. 600-1000), the Wari state extended its influence over much of Peru. One popular view of the Wari expansion is that the state constructed a system of administrative centers that ruled through an idiom of generalized reciprocity and extracted, stored, and redistributed goods from local groups. This paper considers how this model of the Wari periphery was constructed over the last 100 years, and argues that interpretations that fit within this model have been given added weight in academic literature because they fit our expectations of what the past should be like. I suggest that there are significant problems in this understanding of the Wari periphery that need to be addressed, and offer an alternative model that better fits the available evidence

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