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Textiles, women, and political economy in late prehispanic Peru
Research in economic anthropology • 14 • Published In 1993 • Pages: 3-28
By: Costin, Cathy Lynne.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Costin examines textile production as it is portrayed in the ethnohistoric literature and in the archaeological remains found throughout the Yanamarca Valley in Peru. For the sake of simplification, as gender can not be distinguished in the archaelogical data and as it is usually produced by women, Costin treats cloth production as solely women's work. She specifically looks at how rough cloth ('ANASQA) and fine cloth (QOMPI) were made during the Wanka II period as shown by the archaeological data and contrasts that with the changes seen in the Wanka III period, after the Inkan conquest, based on archaeological and ethnohistoric data. Some of the changes seen in the Wanka III period include towns that showed no sign of spinning or weaving and indications that women gained even less direct benefit from the textiles they wove than they had earlier. Although women made most of the CHICHA and cloth given as gifts by the Inka state they rarely participated in the ceremonies where these items were distributed. Instead, men were the usual receipients.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cordage
- Woven and other interworked fabrics
- Production and supply
- Division of labor by gender
- Social relationships and groups
- Household
- Taxation and public income
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Inka
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Andes
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2003
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1977-1979, 1982-1983
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1350-1533
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Yanamarca Valley; Peru
- NotesAdditional notes
- Cathy Lynne Costin
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 25-28)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 79640245
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Incas