Alexis Mantha

Champlain College, Saint-Lambert, Canada · Anthropology

This paper addresses the cosmological foundations of political authority in the Rapayán-Tantamayo region of the highlands of Peru during the Late Intermediate Period (1000–1450 CE). The people of this region organized their residential settlements around large and elaborate multi-storied tombs where mummified founding ancestors dwelled. The evidenc...

This article examines the relationship between social boundaries, territoriality and ancestor veneration during the Late Intermediate Period (1000–1450 AD) in the Rapayán Valley of the Central Andes of Peru. Constructing upon recent theoretical work on social boundaries and territoriality combined with the analyses of early historical sources, I ar...

I examine the changing patterns of territoriality generated by the Inkas upon their conquest of a middle-range society of the Rapayán Valley in the Upper Marañón drainage of the northern central Andes of Peru. The territorial-hegemonic model as well as Robert Sack's conception of territoriality—considered a strategy of social control through space—...

The impressive multi-story funerary monuments found in the Upper Marañón Drainage of the northern Central Andes of Peru have long fascinated people. Archaeologists and historians have studied their spatial distribution to define the identity of the populations occupying the region during the Late Intermediate period (A.D. 1000–1450). Rather than fo...

"NR-00046" "Thèse présentée à la Faculté des études supérieures en vue de l'obtention du grade de Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) en anthropologie" Thèse (Ph. D.)--Université de Montréal, 2004. Microfiche (Positif).