Espacios de poder en la Huerta, quebrada de Humahuaca

Abstract

The building and resignification of space was a conquest strategy of the Inca Empire deployed throughout its territory. This paper aims to examine the problem by considering the archaeological site of La Huerta (quebrada of Humahuaca, Jujuy, Argentina) We seek to understand how imperial power imposed its spatiality on conquered population, by re-building and re-signifying the socially-built landscape, and how the ideological representation of this spatiality, both produced and reproduced the empire's power relationships of domination. For this purpose, we humanize the landscape by thinking about it with people, analyzing how its inhabitants would have behaved in that tridimensional space, experiencing and perceiveing it.