CCHA sponsored, NEH funded Summer Institute

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.

Day 1
USA-LIMA

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

Day 2
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]


Day 3
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]

Machupicchu

Day 4
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]

Day 5
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]

Day 6
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 Perœ 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]

   

Day 7
Lima/ Chiclayo

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


Days 8-11 study trip to northern Peru escorted by Carlos Velaochaga.

Day 8
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]

Day 9
Chiclayo

Study tour of Tucume Valley (Valley of the Pyramids), escorted by Carlos Velaochaga.
Reading: Stone-Miller, Art of the Andes: chap. 6. [T]


Day 10
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]


Day 11
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]


Day 12
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.


Day 13
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]


Day 14
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 and Wirth (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]

   

Day 15
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]

Day 16
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]

Day 17
Cusco
Drive to Cusco with stop at llama farm.
p.m. City orientation tour with Carlos Milla (Millaturismo agency)

Day 18
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]

   

Day 19
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]

Day 20
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."

Day 21
Cusco

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

Day 22
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]

Day 23
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]

Day 24
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]

   

Day 25
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]

Day 26
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]

 

Day 27
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]

Day 28
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]

Day 29
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):
47-8 [R]
Andrea M. Heckman, Woven Stories: Andean Textiles and Rituals, (2003): Chaps, 2, 6 and 7.

Day 30
Cusco

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

Day 31
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]

Day 32
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]

Day 33
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]

Day 34
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]

Day 35
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.

Day 36
Lima

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

   


 
 

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