Peopling Pachacamac

I began my research on people Pachacamac by focusing more on the ritual and sacred activities that would have taken place at the site. From the following sources I was able to come up with this rough sketch of what life would have looked like for the religious side of the site. I'm not quite sure how to make the Excel sheet available to the project short of a Google doc (is there a way to embed a document in this post?) so I'll continue to work on it and if anyone would like to see it I can e-mail it to you. Accordingly, now I will begin more research on the people who worked at the site such as stonemasons, ceramicists (potentially), painters, roofers, food preparers, etc.

Bibliography (please ignore the helter skelter reference style):

Gose, Peter. “Oracles, Divine Kingship and Political Representation in the Inka State”. Ethnohistory. 43:1 (winter 1996) American Society for Ethnohistory.

Randall, Robert. “Qoyllur Rit’I, An Inca Fiesta of the Pleiades: Reflections on Time and Space in the Andean World”. Bull. Inst. Fr. Et. And. 1982, XI, No 1-2 pp. 37 – 81

Moore, Jerry D. “The Social Basis of Sacred Spaces in the Prehispanic Andes: Ritual Landscapes of the Dead in Chimu and Inka Societies”. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. Vol II No 1, Part 1 (March 2004) pp. 83 – 124

Eeckhout, Peter and Lawrence Stuart Owens. “Human Sacrifice at Pachacamac”. Latin American Antiquity. Vol 19 No 4 (Dec 2008) pp. 375-398.

Paterson, Thomas C. “Pachacamac – An Andean Oracle Under Inca Rule”. Ed. D. Peter Kvietok and Daniel H. Sandweiss. Recent Studies in Andean Prehistory and Protohistory. Cornell Univ: 1983. p 159-175.

 

Steele, Paul R. and Catherine J. Allen. Handbook of Inca Mythology. ABC-CLIO, Inc: Santa Barbara, 2004.

Salomon, Frank. Urioste, Jorge. Avila, Francisco de. Ca 1573-1647. The Huarochiri Manuscript: A Testament of ancient and colonial Andean religion. Univ of Texas Press: c 1991.

MacCormack, Sabine. Religion in the Andes: vision and imagination in early colonial Peru. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ Press, c1991.

MacCormack, Sabine. "Gods, Demons and Idols in the Andes". Journal of the History of Ideas. Vol 67 No 4 Oct 2006, pp. 623-648.

Vanstan, Ina. "The Fabrics of a Peruvian Mummy Bale Found Beneath the Pachacamac Temple". Bulletin de liaison du Centre international d'e'tude des textiles anciens. Vol 19 1964 p. 20 - 37.
 

The 2 articles by Shimada, Segura, et al. listed on the PAP page here. And of course the Uhle reprint from 1991 with Izumi Shimada's preface.

- Jeanette