Remodeling the political economy of the Wari Empire
Extending Schreiber’s mosaic model, we construct a political economy model for how the Wari Empire could have functioned based on available evidence. We argue that Wari administrators sought to create a broadly integrating interregional system without the benefit of markets through the creation of a...
| Autor Principal: | Earle, Timothy |
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| Otros Autores: | Jennings, Justin |
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Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
2014
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http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/boletindearqueologia/article/view/9170/pdf |
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Extending Schreiber’s mosaic model, we construct a political economy model for how the Wari Empire could have functioned based on available evidence. We argue that Wari administrators sought to create a broadly integrating interregional system without the benefit of markets through the creation of a staple-based mobilization of agricultural production in order to support state-managed ceremonies, corvée labor for construction projects, a warrior class, and craft and ritual specialists. The success ofthis staple-based mobilization, likely a precedent for the Inca imperial economy, was limited because it was a novel experiment in statecraft in a world of marked regionalism. Yet top-down wealth finance and bottom-up globalization managed to further integrate outlying regions by fueling the specialized production of high-end, symbolically charged goods that materialized apopular religious ideology that had coalesced at Huari. Although wealth finance and globalization are often seen as alternative explanations for Middle Horizon dynamics, we argue that they represent complementary, and often linked, strategies pursued by Wari bureaucrats, local leaders, and craftspeople to profit off of the surging interregional interactions of the period. Nothing like Wari had existed previously in the Andes — it was the creation of a state struggling, and ultimately failing, to project itself overa vast region. |
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