Dante Angelo

Assembling ritual, the burden of the everyday: an exercise in relational ontology in Quebrada de Humahuaca, Argentina

Abstract In this article, I advance understanding of the political dimensions of ritual in archaeology. Ritual practice has been commonly identified within a dualistic schema in which common or everyday activities are set against (and apart from) those practices that have special significance. Conventionally, the latter belong to the realm of ritual in which the sacred, the mysterious, the symbolically significant and the uncommon become institutionalized. Such a rationale constrains ritual within the core economic, social and ideological mechanisms that constitute social structures. After a brief discussion of traditional approaches to ritual in the Andes, I present an alternative interpretation grounded in a relational approach to ritual. Exploring contemporary archaeological contexts in Andean north-west Argentina, I attempt to bridge this divide by emphasizing that ritual is part of social performance.

Internacionalización de Revistas Científicas en Campos Emergentes como Antropología: Desafíos y Oportunidades para Chungara

as an international forum to spread ideas and innovation among both specialized and general audiences.In this regard, one of the most important steps for the Journal has been its open access, thanks to which it can be consulted worldwide. Today, with the exponential growth of scientific knowledge and the need to expose and discuss innovative ideas, one of the central challenges concerns the demo -cratic access to information, as evidenced by the efforts of groups such as SciELO and other online platforms in which the Journal is listed (Santoro and Standen 2012).The challenge of expanding the international network implies raising the quality of the selected manuscripts, getting a greater flow of mainstream specialized manuscripts, or ones of more global geographical coverage as well as emerging themes including authors with international scientific

South America, Archaeology of

The archaeology of South America provides long-term context for problems in many disciplines, including history, anthropology, linguistics, ethnohistory, political science, biology, and ecology. Using a comparison between the Andes Mountains and the Amazon River, this article briefly reviews the history of the discipline, and outlines recent developments. The placement of South American archaeology is considered within scholarship both in South America and around the world.

Monumentalidad y paisaje en la producción de fronteras: Explorando paisajes nacionales/istas del extremo norte de Chile

espanolResumen: El presente articulo analiza, mediante una mirada arqueologica, la construccion de la frontera moderna. Tomando como caso de estudio una seccion de la frontera del actual norte chileno y lo que podria definirse como un “pequeno parche” en la inmensidad del desierto de Atacama, busco interrogar la relacion entre paisaje y monumentalidad en la produccion de las fronteras nacionales. Para tal efecto, empleo un marco metodologico y conceptual que explora algunos de los principios de la arqueologia de paisajes, corriente que se ha popularizado en la arqueologia de los Andes en las ultimas decadas. A partir de este analisis se busca contribuir a debates sobre la modernidad, enfatizando como estos espacios marginales fueron centrales en la configuracion de los espacios nacionales y constituyeron lo moderno desde la periferia. EnglishAbstract: In this article, I archaeologically scrutinize the construction of modern frontiers. By considering a small section of the current Chilean northernmost border and a patch of the Atacama Desert territory, I interrogate the relationship between landscape and monumentality, used in the production of national borders. In order to accomplish my goal, I recourse to a conceptual and meth- odological framework, exploring and inquiring about some of the principles of landscape archaeology, a theoretical trend that gained relevance in the archaeology of the Andes in the last decades. Thus, by highlighting the role that these marginal settings had in the configuration of a national territory, I expect to contribute to the study of modernity and how it builds itself from the outskirts of the Nation.

SIN UNA CRÓNICA QUE LO ANUNCIARA FRANCISCO ROTHHAMMER RECIBE PREMIO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES 2016

Recently, without a chronicle foretold (to paraphrase Gabriel García Márquez), Dr. Francisco Rothhammer, academic of the Universidad de Tarapacá, was distinguished with the National Science Award 2016 given a long history of research, developed by him in part in northern Chile for the last fifty years. Dr. Rothhammer’s connections with this university, and in particular with the Anthropology Department and the Archaeological Museum San Miguel de Azapa are not new; on the contrary, they date from the beginning of the 1970s, when he settled in Arica for several months with a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional research project, co-directed by Dr. William J. Schull (American geneticist). They established their center of operations in what was the Hotel Arica, from where they organized and carried out extensive and extenuating expeditions to the Andean pre-cordillera and altiplano of Arica, aiming to transversely understand human adaptation to environmental stress caused by altitude and lack of oxygen in the high Andes, a phenomenon known as hypoxia (soroche in Quechua). In addition to the local support granted by the Junta de Adelanto de Arica, through the Plan Andino directed by Carlos Solari, the project had funding from several organization from the United States1. From Chile, they received support from the MAB project from UNESCO and the Universidad de Chile. In the epilogue of the book edited by Schull and Rothhammer (1990), that summarizes the main results of this project, they write: EDITORIAL SIN UNA CRÓNICA QUE LO ANUNCIARA FRANCISCO ROTHHAMMER RECIBE PREMIO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES 2016