Early monumentality, ritual, and political complexity: Formative Peru and copper age Iberia

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Stanish, Charles; Earle, Timothy; García Sanjuán, Leonardo; Tantaleán, Henry; Barrientos, Gustavo
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2024
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Archaeology documents the critical roles that ritual played in early regional political organizations. These intermediate-scale societies represent a scalar jump in size and complexity from hunter-forager bands and farming villages. Ritual spaces and monuments materialized regional organizations, and their physical durability makes them ideal for archaeological study. Impressive monumental architecture in intermediate societies, however, has few ethnographic or historical analogs. We argue that these social formations are inherently unstable, characterized by oscillations in scale and structure. They were organized by ritual. Driven by dialectical relationships between emergent elite and commoner interests, alternative trajectories emerged. Societies oscillated between hierarchies to service the collectivity on one pole and to benefit elites on the other. Studying ritualized practices and their monumental manifestations bridges two approaches to emergent social complexity theory—collective action and political economy. We use a unified economic, anthropological approach that views these as “two sides of the same coin.” Combining them helps explain how people in egalitarian societies embraced hierarchy in the service of the community while unintentionally creating the social and material conditions for their exploitation. We illustrate this oscillation with two historically independent cases representing contrasting scales and contexts of monumentality in Formative Period Peru and Copper Age Iberia.
Fil: Stanish, Charles. University of California at Los Angeles; Estados Unidos
Fil: Earle, Timothy. Northwestern University; Estados Unidos
Fil: García Sanjuán, Leonardo. Universidad de Sevilla; España
Fil: Tantaleán, Henry. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; Perú
Fil: Barrientos, Gustavo. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. Área Antropológica; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina
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Monumentality
Ritual
Political economy
Collective action theory
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Early monumentality, ritual, and political complexity: Formative Peru and copper age Iberia
title Early monumentality, ritual, and political complexity: Formative Peru and copper age Iberia
spellingShingle Early monumentality, ritual, and political complexity: Formative Peru and copper age Iberia
Stanish, Charles
Monumentality
Ritual
Political economy
Collective action theory
title_short Early monumentality, ritual, and political complexity: Formative Peru and copper age Iberia
title_full Early monumentality, ritual, and political complexity: Formative Peru and copper age Iberia
title_fullStr Early monumentality, ritual, and political complexity: Formative Peru and copper age Iberia
title_full_unstemmed Early monumentality, ritual, and political complexity: Formative Peru and copper age Iberia
title_sort Early monumentality, ritual, and political complexity: Formative Peru and copper age Iberia
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Stanish, Charles
Earle, Timothy
García Sanjuán, Leonardo
Tantaleán, Henry
Barrientos, Gustavo
author Stanish, Charles
author_facet Stanish, Charles
Earle, Timothy
García Sanjuán, Leonardo
Tantaleán, Henry
Barrientos, Gustavo
author_role author
author2 Earle, Timothy
García Sanjuán, Leonardo
Tantaleán, Henry
Barrientos, Gustavo
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Monumentality
Ritual
Political economy
Collective action theory
topic Monumentality
Ritual
Political economy
Collective action theory
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.1
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Archaeology documents the critical roles that ritual played in early regional political organizations. These intermediate-scale societies represent a scalar jump in size and complexity from hunter-forager bands and farming villages. Ritual spaces and monuments materialized regional organizations, and their physical durability makes them ideal for archaeological study. Impressive monumental architecture in intermediate societies, however, has few ethnographic or historical analogs. We argue that these social formations are inherently unstable, characterized by oscillations in scale and structure. They were organized by ritual. Driven by dialectical relationships between emergent elite and commoner interests, alternative trajectories emerged. Societies oscillated between hierarchies to service the collectivity on one pole and to benefit elites on the other. Studying ritualized practices and their monumental manifestations bridges two approaches to emergent social complexity theory—collective action and political economy. We use a unified economic, anthropological approach that views these as “two sides of the same coin.” Combining them helps explain how people in egalitarian societies embraced hierarchy in the service of the community while unintentionally creating the social and material conditions for their exploitation. We illustrate this oscillation with two historically independent cases representing contrasting scales and contexts of monumentality in Formative Period Peru and Copper Age Iberia.
Fil: Stanish, Charles. University of California at Los Angeles; Estados Unidos
Fil: Earle, Timothy. Northwestern University; Estados Unidos
Fil: García Sanjuán, Leonardo. Universidad de Sevilla; España
Fil: Tantaleán, Henry. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; Perú
Fil: Barrientos, Gustavo. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. Área Antropológica; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina
description Archaeology documents the critical roles that ritual played in early regional political organizations. These intermediate-scale societies represent a scalar jump in size and complexity from hunter-forager bands and farming villages. Ritual spaces and monuments materialized regional organizations, and their physical durability makes them ideal for archaeological study. Impressive monumental architecture in intermediate societies, however, has few ethnographic or historical analogs. We argue that these social formations are inherently unstable, characterized by oscillations in scale and structure. They were organized by ritual. Driven by dialectical relationships between emergent elite and commoner interests, alternative trajectories emerged. Societies oscillated between hierarchies to service the collectivity on one pole and to benefit elites on the other. Studying ritualized practices and their monumental manifestations bridges two approaches to emergent social complexity theory—collective action and political economy. We use a unified economic, anthropological approach that views these as “two sides of the same coin.” Combining them helps explain how people in egalitarian societies embraced hierarchy in the service of the community while unintentionally creating the social and material conditions for their exploitation. We illustrate this oscillation with two historically independent cases representing contrasting scales and contexts of monumentality in Formative Period Peru and Copper Age Iberia.
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