ANTHRO 114R Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Christian Pilgrimage, Tiwanaku Empire
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Nations usually saw their land as bodies. Back then when they thought of a place it wasn"t like a western map it was more like how when we say southwestern we think of cactus, beans, arizona. Mythological history is that the founding couple of the empire were born here. Many of their stories didn"t make since they overlapped with other stories but it didn"t matter b/c there wasn"t much communication. Every year there was a mass number of pilgrims going from tiwanaku to the island. There were cut stones all around the route = kenco. Thought to have been a liquid sacrifice location. The inca required every ethnicity to keep their ethnic identities. They didn"t want ppl getting together and overthrowing the empire. Your clothes is like ur social skin they told who u were and where u came from. It is not just a costume it is ur identity.
