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Andean peoples recognize places as neither sacred nor profane, but rather in terms of the power they emanate and the identities they materialize and reproduce. This book argues that a careful consideration of Andean conceptions of powerful places is critical not only to understanding Andean political and religious history but to rethinking sociological theories on landscapes more generally.

Presents a study of the ways places are created and how they attain meaning. Smith presents archaeological data from Khonkho Wankane in the southern Lake Titicaca basin of Bolivia to explore how landscapes were imagined and constructed during processes of political centralization in this region.

Archaeologists have long associated the development of agriculture with the rise of the state. But the archaeology of the Amazon Basin, revealing traces of agriculture but lacking evidence of statehood, confounds their assumptions. This study of the Bolivian Amazon addresses this contradiction, examining the agricultural landscape and analysing the earthworks from an archaeological perspective.

Each August staff and volunteers begin to construct a temporary city located in the hostile and haunting Black Rock Desert. Every September nearly seventy thousand people occupy the city for "Burning Man". By mid-September the infrastructure is dismantled. This book examines this process of building, occupation, and destruction.