Born 1948, Auburn California. BA, Ph.D. Harvard University (1977). Professor Emeritus, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario. Married to Theresa Lange Topic. Two daughters, Wendy and Katie.
... evolution. Aside from its innovative theoretical approach to the nature and origin of politic... more ... evolution. Aside from its innovative theoretical approach to the nature and origin of political inequality, Archaeology and the onset of political inequality before the Inka is a substantive study of prehistoric .agricultural systems. Hastorf ...
Archaeologists working with complex societies are concerned with the administration of political ... more Archaeologists working with complex societies are concerned with the administration of political economies. Beginning with the premise that there are differing forms of administration and that bureaucracy, in the classic formulation of Max Weber, is one of these, I develop a heuristic dichotomy between two types of administrators: stewards (who closely supervise goods and people) and bureaucrats (who process and control information). Bureaucracy is often linked to written records, but in the Central Andes alternative methods of record keeping were developed, such as the quipu or knotted string record. I argue that one alternative record-keeping device was an architectural form, the U-shaped structure. U-shaped structures are closely identified with the administrative architecture of the Chimu kingdom (ca. A.D. 850–1470) on the north coast of Peru. Four independent lines of argument demonstrate the development of bureaucracy from stewardship at Chan Chan, the capital of the Chimu kingdom. Brief comparisons are made between the Chimu administrative pattern and commodity and information flow in the earlier Huari and Tiwanku civilizations, and with the later Inka pattern. These comparisons show how record-keeping technology affects political economy and the strategy of expansion.
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú eBooks, 2023
In El quipu colonial: estudios y materiales, edited by Marco Curatola Petrocchi and Jose Carlos d... more In El quipu colonial: estudios y materiales, edited by Marco Curatola Petrocchi and Jose Carlos de la Puente Luna, pp. 33-63. Coleccion Estudios Andinos. Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Lima. 2013.
... evolution. Aside from its innovative theoretical approach to the nature and origin of politic... more ... evolution. Aside from its innovative theoretical approach to the nature and origin of political inequality, Archaeology and the onset of political inequality before the Inka is a substantive study of prehistoric .agricultural systems. Hastorf ...
Archaeologists working with complex societies are concerned with the administration of political ... more Archaeologists working with complex societies are concerned with the administration of political economies. Beginning with the premise that there are differing forms of administration and that bureaucracy, in the classic formulation of Max Weber, is one of these, I develop a heuristic dichotomy between two types of administrators: stewards (who closely supervise goods and people) and bureaucrats (who process and control information). Bureaucracy is often linked to written records, but in the Central Andes alternative methods of record keeping were developed, such as the quipu or knotted string record. I argue that one alternative record-keeping device was an architectural form, the U-shaped structure. U-shaped structures are closely identified with the administrative architecture of the Chimu kingdom (ca. A.D. 850–1470) on the north coast of Peru. Four independent lines of argument demonstrate the development of bureaucracy from stewardship at Chan Chan, the capital of the Chimu kingdom. Brief comparisons are made between the Chimu administrative pattern and commodity and information flow in the earlier Huari and Tiwanku civilizations, and with the later Inka pattern. These comparisons show how record-keeping technology affects political economy and the strategy of expansion.
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú eBooks, 2023
In El quipu colonial: estudios y materiales, edited by Marco Curatola Petrocchi and Jose Carlos d... more In El quipu colonial: estudios y materiales, edited by Marco Curatola Petrocchi and Jose Carlos de la Puente Luna, pp. 33-63. Coleccion Estudios Andinos. Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Lima. 2013.
This book is the result of a comparative effort to address storage, administration and control in... more This book is the result of a comparative effort to address storage, administration and control indicators in the Near East, Mesoamerica, and the Andean Region.
This book presents a series of Mesoamerican capitals where houses and neighborhoods have been stu... more This book presents a series of Mesoamerican capitals where houses and neighborhoods have been studied. Three subjects are of interest: indicators of craft specialization, ethnicity and hierarchy.
This book addresses different Mesoamerican and Andean capitals where domestic archaeology has pro... more This book addresses different Mesoamerican and Andean capitals where domestic archaeology has provided data on craft specialization, ethnicity and hierarchy.
Perspectives on Andean Prehistory and Protohistory: Papers from the Third Annual Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory, 1986
This volume contains the following papers: "Preface" by Daniel H. Sandweiss and D. Peter Kvietok;... more This volume contains the following papers: "Preface" by Daniel H. Sandweiss and D. Peter Kvietok; "General Introduction" by D. Peter Kvietok and Daniel H. Sandweiss; "Wandering Shellfish: New Insights into Intra-Regional Distribution Networks from Southeastern Coastal Ecuador" by Patricia J. Netherly; "Late Prehispanic Terracing at Chijra in the Colca Valley, Peru: Preliminary Report" by Michael A. Malpass; "The Topara Tradition: An Overview" by Dwight T. Wallace; "The Peruvian North Central Coast During the Early Intermediate Period: An Emerging Perspective" by Richard E. Daggett; "A Sequence of Monumental Architecture from Huamachuco" by John R. Topic; "Dualaity in Public Architecture in the Upper Zena Valley, Northern Peru" by Patricia J. Netherly and Tom D. Dillehay; Piruru: A Preliminary Report on the Archaeological Botany of a Highland Andean Site" by Lawrence Kaplan and Elisabeth Bonnier; "Analysis of Organic Remains from Huamachuco Qollqas" by Coreen E. Chiwsell; "Aspects of Casting Practice in Perhispanic Peru" by Stuart V. Arnold; "Representations of the Cosmos: A Comparison of the Church of San Cristobal de Pampachiri with the Coricancha Drawing of Santacruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamaygua" by Monica Barnes.
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