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This book is a study of the ways places are created and how they attain meaning. Smith presents archaeological data from Khonkho Wankane in the southern Lake Titicaca basin of Bolivia to explore how landscapes were imagined and constructed during processes of political centralization in this region. In particular he examines landscapes of movement and the development of powerful political and religious centers during the Late Formative period (200 BC–AD 500), just before the emergence of the urban state centered at Tiwanaku (AD 500–1100).

Late Formative politico-religious centers, Smith notes, were characterized by mobile populations of agropastoralists and caravan drovers. By exploring ritual practice at Late Formative settlements, Smith provides a new way of looking at political centralization, incipient urbanism, and state formation at Tiwanaku.

This book is a study of the ways places are created and how they attain meaning. Smith presents archaeological data from Khonkho Wankane in the southern Lake Titicaca basin of Bolivia to explore how landscapes were imagined and constructed during processes of political centralization in this region. In particular he examines landscapes of movement and the development of powerful political and religious centers during the Late Formative period (200 BC–AD 500), just before the emergence of the urban state centered at Tiwanaku (AD 500–1100).

Late Formative politico-religious centers, Smith notes, were characterized by mobile populations of agropastoralists and caravan drovers. By exploring ritual practice at Late Formative settlements, Smith provides a new way of looking at political centralization, incipient urbanism, and state formation at Tiwanaku.

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  1. Front Cover
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  1. Half Title, Series Page, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. p. vii
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  1. List of Illustrations
  2. pp. ix-xii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xiii-xvi
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  1. Chapter 1: Biographies of Place
  2. pp. 1-18
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  1. Chapter 2: Place-Making and Politics
  2. pp. 19-38
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  1. Chapter 3: The Lake Titicaca Basin, Past and Present
  2. pp. 39-54
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  1. Chapter 4: The Site of Khonkho Wankane
  2. pp. 55-94
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  1. Chapter 5: Making Ritual Places: Caravan Routes and the Founding of Khonkho Wankane
  2. pp. 95-132
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  1. Chapter 6: Experiencing Ritual Places: Stelae, Sunken Courts, and the Creation of an Axis Mundi
  2. pp. 133-164
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  1. Chapter 7: The Power of Ritual Places: Politics and Social Difference through Time
  2. pp. 165-188
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  1. Chapter 8: The Political Cartography of an Axis Settlement
  2. pp. 189-216
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  1. Appendix
  2. pp. 217-224
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 225-232
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  1. References
  2. pp. 233-266
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 267-277
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  1. Back Cover
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