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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