Dinámica ritual en un “centro administrativo” inka: paradojas, contradicciones y encerronas de las categorías

Abstract

In this presentation we wish to discuss the interpretative categories with which narratives about Inka sites were produced and continue to be produced, especially what have been considered as "administrative centers". Based on our studies in El Shincal, we focused on four contexts – a domestic space for what could be an elite, a site with evidence of ritual practices, a complex with a carved rock, and a large-scale grinding space- to reflect critically on the categories with which we give meanings a priori. A set of questions arise from these criticisms and an attempt is made to build interpretations from new approaches focused on models that highlight the native constructions of the world and senses of political practice that start from the ontological difference