Predation And Sacrifice In Andean War. Towards A Comparison Between Highlands And Lowlands
Abstract
Traditionally, anthropologists have considered the highland and lowland societies of South America as distinct and have attempted to find associations, connections, and boundaries between them. In this article, I propose, instead, to view them as two ethnographically defi ned confi gurations, allowing to identify two models, or ethea, that interact within a particular social or conceptual domain, such as warfare. In Andean ritual combat or tinku, the two models are simultaneously at work, while in Inca warfare, an Amazonian ethos is present at the heart of the Inca State together with a human sacrifi ce which ensures the unity of the empire. Lastly, I wonder if the two models found in Andean warfare, predation and sacrifice, correspond to animism and analogism (Descola 2013a [2005].).
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