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Accepted Paper
Contemporary indigenous perspectives on ancient cities in Amazonia
Peter Gow
(University of St Andrews)
Paper short abstract
The present paper seeks to show how the potential links between myth, as a
body of ethnographic data and as an object of analysis, can be brought into
alignment with archaeological materials in the elucidation of the past of
Peruvian Amazonia.
Paper long abstract
The present paper seeks to show how the potential links between myth, as a body of ethnographic data and as an object of analysis, can be brought into alignment with archaeological materials in the elucidation of the past of Peruvian Amazonia. I look at a curious feature of a set of myths about a kind of wild pig, and suggest that this feature once had a material referent, namely, cities. These cities have disappeared, but have left their imprint on the mythic system.
Panel
P14
Exploring the dangers and virtues of ancient things
Session 1