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ANDEAN WORLD:  DAILY SCHEDULE

Note: Assigned readings are designated either as [T] for Institute texts, or as [R] for Institute Readers. It is the responsibility of participants to obtain the designated texts (see Appendix B); the Readers will be supplied to participants.

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Sun June 26

               USA-LIMA

Arrival of participants from various flights; Check in to hotel in Lima. Informal meetings with project directors.
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Mon June 27

               Lima

9 a.m. Introductory talk about the program: George Scheper & Laraine Fletcher, project
directors; David Berry, project manager.

10 a.m. Half day study visit to colonial Lima/Historic city with Prof. Carlos Velaochaga.

4 p.m. Keynote address. Jeffrey Quilter (Dumbarton Oaks): New Directions in Andean Scholarship.
7 p.m. Welcome dinner.

Reading: R. Burger, Chavin and the Origins of Andean Civilization (1995): chaps. 1-3. [T]
Michael Moseley, The Incas and Their Ancestors (2001): chaps. 4 & 5. [T]

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Tues June 28
Lima

3 p.m. Seminar. Richard Burger (Yale University): Andean origins; Chavin culture.

Reading: Burger, Chavin and the Origins of Andean Civilization: chaps. 5-7. [T]
Moseley, Incas and Their Ancestors: chap. 6. [T]
Rebecca Stone-Miller, Art of the Andes (2002): chap. 2. [T]  

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Wed June 29
Lima
9 a.m. Seminar. Richard Burger: Paracas and Nazca cultures.

p.m. Optional visit to Textile Museum, escorted by curator, Mario Amano.

Reading
: Moseley, Incas and their Ancestors: chap. 7. [T]

                   Stone-Miller, Art of the Andes: chap. 3. [T]

                   Mary Frame, "Blood, Fertility, and Transformation: Interwoven themes in the Paracas Necropolis Embroideries," in Benson & Cook, Ritual Sacrifice  in Ancient Peru (2001): chap. 4. [R]


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Thurs June 30

Lima

9 a.m. Seminar. Richard Burger: Moche and Chimu cultures.

p.m. -- Visit to the Rafael Larco Herrera Museum with  Richard Burger

Reading: Moseley, Incas and their Ancestors: chaps. 8 & 9. [T]
Stone-Miller, Art of the Andes: chap. 4. [T]

 

Fri July 1

               Lima

9 a.m. Seminar - Rolena Adorno (Yale University): The Spanish/ Andean Encounter

Reading: John Hemming, "Atahualpa  and Pizarro," in The Peru Reader: History, Culture Politics, ed. Orin Starn, Carlos Degregori, and Robin Kirk (1995): 84-106. [R]

Sabine MacCormack, "Atahualpa and the Book," Dispositio XIV, nos. 36-38 (1989): 141-168. [R]

3 p.m.  Seminar --  Rolena Adorno: Guaman Poma

Reading: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, New Chronicle and Good Government. A typescript reader prepared and translated from the original Spanish by Rolena Adorno: 1-45. [R]

Rolena Adorno, Guaman Poma and His Illustrated Chronicle from Colonial Peru/ Guaman Popma y su cr—nica ilustrada del Perś colonial (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, and the Royal

           Library, 2001). [T - supplied to participants]

Rolena Adorno, Guaman Poma/ Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru (2000). [Recommended]

 

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Sat  July 2

               Lima/ Chiclayo

Morning free to pack.
p.m. Visit to the Museum of History & Anthropology, escorted by Carlos Velaochaga.

Evening flight to Chiclayo.

July 3-6 study trip to northern Peru escorted by Carlos Velaochaga.

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Sun  July 3

               Chiclayo

a.m. Study visit  to Sican Museum.escorted by Carlos Velaochaga

p.m. Study tour of Tucume Valley (Valley of the Pyramids) guided by curatorial staff..

Reading: Warren Church & Ricardo Morales Gamarra, "Tomb Raiders of El Dorado/ Conservation Dilemmas on a 'New' Archaeological Frontier in Peru,"The SAA Archaeological Record (January 2004): 24-29. [R]

Walter Alva & Christopher Donnan, Royal Tombs of Sipán (1993): Preface, and chaps.
I and VIII. [R]

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Mon  July 4
Chiclayo

Study tour of Tucume Valley (Valley of the Pyramids), escorted by Carlos Velaochaga.

Reading: Stone-Miller, Art of the Andes: chap. 6. [T]

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Tues July 5

               Trujillo

a.m. Bus to Trujillo; visit to fishing village of Huanchaco.
p.m. Study visit to Chan-Chan, escorted by Carlos Velaochaga.

Reading: Adriana von Hagen & Craig Morris, Cities of the Ancient Andes (1998): chap. 7. [R]

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Wed July 6

               Trujillo/ Lima

Full day study visit to research project at Huaca del Sol y de la Luna.
Adobe construction techniques: Dr. Ricardo Morales.

p.m. Flight to Lima

Reading: Steve Bourget, “Children and Ancestors: Ritual Practices at the Moche Site of Huaca de la Luna,” in Ritual Sacrifice, ed. Elizabeth Benson & Anita Cook (2001): chap. 5. [R]                                     

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Thurs July 7

               Lima Cusco flight/ Sacred Valley -- Pisac

Transfer from Hotel to airport in Lima Flight from Lima to Cusco; met by bus for transfer to Pisac.
Check in at  Inti Wasi Conference Center.

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Fri July 8

               Pisac

9 a.m. Seminar with Tom Cummins (Harvard University): Inka stonework.

 p.m.  Field study at Pisac ruins with Tom Cummins.

Reading: Stone-Miller, Art of the Andes: chap. 7  [T]

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Sat July 9

               Pisac

9 a.m. Seminar with Tom Cummins: Inka political organization
p.m.  Field study visit for agriculture seminar with Vidal Pino, local researcher.

Reading: John Hyslop, The Inka Road System (1984): selections. [R]

John Rowe, "Inca Policies and Institutions Relating to the Cultural Unification of the Empire," In The Inca and Aztec States 1400-1800, ed. Collier, Rosaldo andWirth (1982): chap. 4 [R]

John Murra, "The Mit'a Obligations of Ethnic Groups in the Inka State," in The Inca and Aztec States 1400-1800, ed. Collier, Rosaldo and Wirth (1982): chap. 9. [R] 


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Sun July 10

               Pisac

a.m. Early morning visit to Pisac market
late morning — Study visit to Ollantaytambo with Tom Cummins

Reading: Jean-P. Protzen, Inca Architecture and Construction at Ollantaytambo (1993):  selections. [R]

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Mon   July 11

               Pisac

Full day study visit to Machu Picchu with Tom Cummins

Reading: Morris & Hagen, Cities of the Ancient Andes (1998): chap. 8. [R]

Richard L. Burger, "Scientific Insights into Daily Life at Machu Picchu" In Machu Picchu: Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas, ed. R. Burger and Lucy C. Salazar (2004): chap. VI [R]

Flores Ochoa, Jorge, A., "Contemporary Significance of Machu Picchu," In Machu Picchu: Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas, ed. R. Burger and Lucy C. Salazar (2004): chap.VII [R]    

 

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Tues July 12

               Cusco

Drive to Cusco with stop at llama farm.
p.m. City orientation tour with Carlos Milla (Millaturismo agency)

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Wed July 13

               Cusco

9 a.m. Seminar with Tom Cummins: Colonial Cusco

p.m. Walking tour and visit to Santo Domingo and Coricancha with Tom Cummins.

Reading: Tom Cummins, “A Tale of Two Cities: Cuzco, Lima, and the Construction of Colonial Representation,” in Converging Cultures, ed. Fane (1996): 157-70. [R]

        Tom Zuidema, Inca Civilization in Cuzco (1990): selections. [R]

Tom Cummins, "Social Reorder: From Reciprocity to Redistribution" and "From Abstract to Pictorial Images," in Toasts with the Incas: Andean Abstractions and Colonial Images on Quero Vessels (2002): chaps 5 and 6 [R]

Tom Cummins, "Silver Threads and Golden Needles:" In The Inca, the Spanish, and  the Sacred World of Humanity, in The Colonial Andes: Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530-1830. ed. Elena Phipps, J. Hecht and C.E. Mart“n [R]

Frank Salomon, "Andean Opulence: Indigenous Ideas about Wealth in Colonial Peru," In The Inca, the Spanish, and the Sacred World of Humanity, ed. Elena Phipps, J. Hecht and C.E. Martìn [R]   

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Thurs July 14

               Cusco

9 a.m. Seminar -- Sara Castro-Klarén (Johns Hopkins University):
Inka religion and cosmovision

Reading: Garcilaso de la Vega, Inca. Royal Commentaries of the Incas. Part I. Trans. Harold Livermore. Austin: UT Press, 1966. Book One (9-62); Book Two (67-109); Book Four (195-215). [R]]

    Bernabe Cobo, Inca Religion and Custom. Trans. Roland Hamilton. Austin: UT
Press, 1990. Book I.    [R]

Juan de Betanzos, Narrative of the Incas. Trans. Roland Hamilton. Austin: UT Press, l996. Part I (Capitulos I-XVII). [R]

Susan Niles, The Shape of Inca History: Narrative and Architecture in the Andean Empire. Iowa City: U of Iowa Press, 1999. Chapters 1-4 and 6-9. [R]

 

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Fri July 15

               Cusco

9 a.m. Seminar -- Sara Castro-Klarén: Inka social organization

Reading: Sabine MacCormack, "Religion and Society in Inca and Spanish Peru," in The Colonial Andes/ Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530-1830, ed. Elena Phipps, Johanna Hecht, and Cristina Esteras Mart’n (2004): 101-113. [R]

Jose Antonio Mazzotti, "Mestizo Dreams: Transculturation and Heterogeneity in Inca Garcilaso de la Vega," [R]   

Sara Castro-KlarŽn, "Mimicry Revisited: Latin American Post-colonial Theory and the Location of Knowledge," in Alfonso de Toro/ Fernando de Toro (eds). El debate de la postcoloniedad en America Latina. Madrid: Vuervert. Iberoamericana, l999, 137-164. [R]

    Sara Castro-Klarén, "The Nation in Ruins: Archeology and the Rise of the Nation". In Castro-Klarén and John Chasteen (eds), Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth Century Latin America. Baltimore: JHU Press, 2003, 161-196. [R]

Sara Castro-Klarén, "Historiography  on the Ground: The Toledo Circle and Guaman Poma". In Ileana Rodriguez, ed., The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader. Durham: Duke UP, 2001, 143-171. [R]

Sabine MacCormack, Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Colonial Peru Princeton: Princeton UP, 1991. Chapter I, "Reality Represented in the Imagination", Chapter IV, "Andean Sacred Space and Time," Chapter VIII, "Religion and Philosophy."

 

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Sat July 16

               Cusco

a.m. Study tour of UNSAA Inka Museum with Prof. Flores Ochoa.

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Sun July 17

               Cusco

Study visit to Sacsahuaman and other nearby sites with local guide.

Reading: John Hyslop, Inka Settlem,ent Planning (1990): chap. 4. [R]

Vincent Lee, "The Building of Sacsahuaman," Nawpa Pacha  24 (1986): 49-60. [R]

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Mon July 18

               Cusco

9 a.m. Seminar - Frank Salomon (University of Wisconsin): Inka myth.

Reading: Gary Urton, Inca Myths ( 1999). [T]

Jeffrey Quilter, "Yncap Cimin Quipococ's Knots" In Narrative Threads: Accounting  and Recounting in Andean Khipu, ed. J. Quilter & G. Urton (2002): Chap 9 [R]

Frank Salomon, The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village. Introduction, & chaps. 6 and 9. [R]          

Frank Salomon, "Patrimonial Khipu in a Modern Peruvian Village" In Narrative  Threads, ed. J. Quilter (2002): chap. 12 [R] 

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Tues July 19

               Cusco

9 a.m. Seminar -- Frank Salomon:  Inka statecraft and communication; the kuipu.
p.m. Study visit to MAP museum

Reading: Gary Urton, Signs of the Inka Khipu (2003): chaps. 1, 2 & 7. [R]
Sabine P. Hyland, "Woven Words: The Royal Khipu of San Valera," In Narrative Threads, ed. J. Quilter and G. Urton, (2002): chap. 7 [R]

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Wed July 20

               Cusco

a.m. Seminar/ tour of Cusqueño painting, with Elizabeth Kuon

Reading: Tom Cummins, “We Are the Other: Peruvian Portraits of Colonial Kurakakuna,” in Transatlantic Encounters: Europeans and Andeans in the Sixteenth Century, ed. Andrien and Adorno (1991). [R]

                   Tom Cummins, “The Madonna and the Horse: Becoming Colonial in New Spain and Peru,” in Native Artists and Patrons in Colonial Latin America, ed. Emily Umberger and Tom Cummins, Phoebus 7 (1995): 52-83. [R]

                   Carolyn Dean, “The Renewal of Old World Images and the Creation of Peruvian Visual Culture,” in Converging Cultures, ed. Fane: 171-182. [R]

                   Teresa Gisbert, “Andean Painting,” in Gloria in Excelsis: the Virgin and Angels in Viceregal Paintings of Peru and Bolivia (1986): 22-31. [R]

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Thurs July 21

               Cusco

p.m. p.m. Study tour of Cathedral, with  Jorge Escobar

Reading: Carolyn Dean, “Creating a Ruin in Colonial Cusco: Sacsahuamán and What Was Made of It,” Andean Past 5 (1998): 159-81. [R]
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 Fri July 22

               Cusco

9 a.m. Seminar with Regina Harrison  (Univ. of Maryland): Quechua cultural survival

Reading: R. Harrison, Signs, Songs, and Memory in the Andes (1989): chaps. 1-3. [T]

                 Jeremy Mumford, “The Taki Onquoy and the Andean Nation,” Latin American                  Research Review 33 (1998): 150-65. [R]

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Sat July 23

               Cusco

9 a.m. Seminar with Regina Harrison: Quechua oral tradition

Reading: R. Harrison, Signs, Songs, and Memory in the Andes (1989): chaps. 4-7. [T]

Billie Jean Isbell, "Violence in Peru: Performances and Dialogues,"American Anthropologist, 100.2 (June 1998): 282-292. [R]     

Kevin Healy and Elayne Zorn, "Tquiles's Homnespun Tourism." In Cultural Expression and Grassroots Development: Case Studies from Latin America and the Caribbean, ed. Charles David Kleymeyer (1994): Chap. 9. [R]  


Sun July 24

               Cusco

9 a.m. Seminar with Nilda Callañaypa:  Inka textiles

Reading: John Murra, “Cloth and its Functions in the Inca State,” American Anthropologist  64 (1962): 710-28. [R]

                   Susan Niles, “Artist and Empire in Inca and Colonial Textiles,” in To Weave for the                   Sun, ed. Stone-Miller (1994). [R]

                   Mary Frame, “The Visual Images of Fabric Structure in Ancient Peruvian Art,” in The                   Junius B. Bird Conference on Andean Textiles, ed. Ann Rowe (1986):
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[R]

Andrea M. Heckman, Woven Stories: Andean Textiles and Rituals, (2003): Chaps, 2, 6 and 7.

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Mon   July 25

               Cusco

9 a.m.Seminar with Dr. Gladis Oblitas, Traditional Andean healing 

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Tues July 26

               Cusco/ Puno

Check out of Cusco --  Bus to Puno; Sites en route.

p.m. Meeting with Charles Stanish (UCLA): orientation to Puno.

Reading: Moseley, The Incas and Their Ancestors (2001): chap.8. [T]
Mary Glowacki and Michael Malpass, “Water, Huacas, and Ancestor Worship: Traces of a Sacred Wari Landscape,” Latin American Antiquity 14 (2003): 431-48. [R]

Charles Stanish, Ancient Titicaca: The Evolution of Complex Society in Southern Peru and Northern Bolivia. (2003): chap 4. [R]


Alan Kolata, The Tiwanaku: Portrait of an Andean Civilization (1993): chaps.1,.2, and 5. [R]

 

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Wed July 27

               Puno

a.m. Seminar and study visit in Puno with Charles Stanish: Andean cultures of Lake Titicaca

Reading; Brian Bauer and Charles Stanish, Ritual and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes (2001): chaps. 1-3. [T]

         Stone-Miller, Art of the Andes: chap. 5. [T]                                           

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Thurs July 28

               Puno/ Bolivia

Study trip to Tiwanaku and Copacabana with Charles Stanish

Reading; Brian Bauer and Charles Stanish, Ritual and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes (2001): chaps. 8 & 9. [T]

         Veronica Salles-Reese, From Viracocha to the Virgin of Copacabana (1997): chaps.
         1 & 4. [R]

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Fri July 29

               Lake Titicaca/ Puno

Study visit to Isla del Sol and Isla del la Luna with Charles Stanish

Reading; Brian Bauer and Charles Stanish, Ritual and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes (2001): chaps.4- 7. [T]

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Sat July 30

               Puno/ Lima

Check out and drive to Juliaca. Flight to Lima

Check in to hotel in Lima for one night.

Roundtable with project directors.  Institute conclusion.

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Sun July 31

               Lima

For participants who have flights home on Sunday, transfers to airport with luggage in group blocks as suitable.