The Drink Embodied: Theorizing an Integrated Bioarchaeological Approach to the Investigation of Chicha de Maiz Consumption

Gagnon, Celeste Marie; Juengst, Sara L.

doi:10.5744/bi.2018.1024

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“…The details of C 4 /CAM plant consumption may also speak to Hastorf's (2017:545) assertion that “foods are not only linked to economic value but also to their associated ideological importance.” It is possible that C 4 /CAM plant consumption is integrated into ritual activities surrounding chicha , as elsewhere in the Andes, and that that role was limited to a select few. As Gagnon and Juengst (2018, p. 206) argue, “Given the social and political importance of chicha , gender, age, status, ethnicity, or other social distinctions in consumption were likely important in the construction of networks and the practices of power.” This would sync with Larache 358 who carries the accoutrements of feasting to the grave in a particularly opulent fashion. However, the intriguing patterns of radiogenic strontium isotope values among the Larache C 4 outliers could suggest that again what we have here is an intersection of possibilities, the value of maize chicha in the ritual sphere overlain on dietary patterns that reflect other places and the influence of sex on consumption.…”

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A multiplicity of identities: The intersections of cranial vault modification, paleodiet, and sex in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

Torres‐Rouff

Knudson

Pestle

2022

American Journal of Biological Anthropology

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Objectives Intentional cranial modification and diet serve as markers of identity. Here, we explore the intersection between the body and social persona in the San Pedro oases through the complex relationship(s) between these markers and other aspects of society and the individual. Methods Skeletal remains of 1190 individuals were analyzed for evidence of intentional head shaping and classed as unmodified, tabular, or annular. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses of bone (n = 203) focused on the contribution of C3 plants, C4/CAM plants, beans, and terrestrial animal meat per the Bayesian model, FRUITS. Strontium isotope data from dental enamel was considered for more detailed analyses. Results Cranial modification was present in 520 individuals (43.7%; N = 1190). Modification was significantly more common among females (χ2 = 7.403, p = 0.007). There was no significant difference in presence or type between periods. Average values for the four modeled food groupings differ significantly. There is a significant difference in consumption of C4/CAM plants by those individuals with modified heads consuming more (26.5 ± 9.9% vs. 23.6 ± 9.4%, Wilcoxon signed‐rank test, p < 0.05). In the Middle Period sample, males consume significantly more C4/CAM plants (p < 0.05) and females more C3 plants (p < 0.01). Four of those with outlier C4 values were analyzed for strontium, yielding values outside the “local” range. Conclusions As head shaping is permanently imposed in infancy while dietary patterns are the consequence of ongoing choices and constraints in the social and ecological environment, these markers of identity are not parallel. The numerous points of intersection between these markers and other aspects of identity are highlighted.

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A multiplicity of identities: The intersections of cranial vault modification, paleodiet, and sex in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

Torres‐Rouff

Knudson

Pestle

2022

American Journal of Biological Anthropology

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“…In the Wari and post-Wari worlds, meat consumption does not appear to have been a key marker for gender distinction, though it may have been used to mark other social, political, or ethnic differences. Instead, the consumption of maizeperhaps in the form of chicha-may have been a powerful marker of distinction (Gagnon and Juengst 2018;Goldstein, Coleman, and Williams 2009;Moseley et al 2005) in the post-Wari world when much of the social and political order was in disarray. Perhaps gender orders were also up for renegotiation, and maize consumption in daily diets and chicha at feasting rituals may have become a new cultural correlate for marking and performing masculinity.…”

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Making and Marking Maleness and Valorizing Violence

Tung¹

2021

Current Anthropology

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The unmarked category of man and claims of innate violence have been tightly linked in the public imagination and in much scholarly work, both in views of the past and the present and in how those temporalities mutually inform one another. However, these notions of the naturally violent man eschew the evidence showing how social, political, and other processes interact to make and mark gender and connect narratives about violence with gender and other aspects of identity. Drawing on examples from the pre-Hispanic and early Spanish colonial Andean world, I explore how (bio)archaeology investigates both overt physical violence and structures of violence that can be hidden yet are deeply impactful. This kind of analysis places the archaeological body at the core, also interrogating how norms about violence become embodied. Through a consideration of this constructive process, I examine the corporal effects of various narratives about violence, gender, and the body in the (pre)historic Andes. These (bio)archaeological and ethnohistoric data are also examined to scrutinize how these stories of past violence are used in the service of normalizing and naturalizing (male) violence today.

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“…They found little difference in residence between individuals buried in the urban sector and Huaca de la Luna but temporally increasing residential variability among the sacrificial victims. However, these interpretations must be supported by additional analysis, given the effects that chicha consumption can have on human δ 18 O values (Gagnon, Andrus, Ida, & Richardson, 2015; Gagnon & Juengst, 2018). Finally, Gagnon's (2019) analysis of stress indicators suggests that individuals buried in the huaca enjoyed slightly better health than those interred in the urban sector.…”

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Nonsacrificial violence at the Huacas de Moche, north coastal Peru

Gagnon

Uceda

2020

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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The analysis of traumatic injuries provides bioarchaeologists with unique insight into patterns of violence among past human societies. This analysis explores antemortem and perimortem skeletal trauma and what it suggests about the experiences of violence among the Moche of north coastal Peru (A.D. 200-900). Violence among the Moche has been well documented, both by the Moche themselves in their iconographic communications and through the analysis of the skeletal remains of those they sacrificed. These sources provided us with an incomplete view. What has not been studied are the patterns of traumatic injury that affect those who were not among the sacrificed and what these patterns can tell us about the risk of violence among other Moche dead. To this end, the skeletal remains of 96 individuals interred in the Huacas de Moche site were examined. Excavations at this paramount urban centre have recovered remains from tombs located in two distinct contexts, Huaca de la Luna and the urban sector. Given the material investment made into the construction of Huaca de la Luna and its ritual importance particularly as a space where violence was enacted and memorialized, it is hypothesized that those buried within its precincts would have different lived experiences of skeletal trauma than those buried throughout the urban sector. This work finds that although both groups experienced very little accidental trauma, individuals buried in Huaca de la Luna experienced significantly more trauma resulting from interpersonal violence than did those interred in the urban sector. This may suggest that variation in risk of violence was among the biosocial distinctions that defined these groups.

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The Drink Embodied: Theorizing an Integrated Bioarchaeological Approach to the Investigation of Chicha de Maiz Consumption

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A multiplicity of identities: The intersections of cranial vault modification, paleodiet, and sex in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

A multiplicity of identities: The intersections of cranial vault modification, paleodiet, and sex in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

Making and Marking Maleness and Valorizing Violence

Nonsacrificial violence at the Huacas de Moche, north coastal Peru

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