7 The Mutable Neighborhoods of the Late Moche Period in the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-113
Author(s):  
Edward Swenson
Keyword(s):  
Jequetepeque Valley

scholarly journals Complex innovations in agriculture, environment, and health – the perceptions of rice farmers in the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 101-136
Author(s):  
Renata Távora ◽  
José Augusto Drummond ◽  
Alain Santandreu ◽  
Anita Luján ◽  
Ernesto Ráez-Luna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Northern Coast ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Wetting And Drying ◽  
Irrigated Rice ◽  
Rice Farmers ◽  
Management Efficiency ◽  
Environment And Health ◽  
Jequetepeque Valley ◽  
Agricultural Innovations

The increased use of water in irrigated rice monocultures in the Jequetepeque Valley, on the northern coast of Peru, has exacerbated environmental, socioeconomic and health problems. The Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) irrigation technique aims to increase water management efficiency in rice cultivation. The objective of the present article is to understand farmers’ perceptions about the benefits and risks of implementing AWD. Data from interviews with 319 farmers showed that they recognise nine interactions between AWD's economic, environmental and health aspects but prioritise economic factors when assessing its benefits. We also identified the main channels and spaces of communication and debate on issues related to agriculture and health that are likely to be effective in promoting the diffusion of AWD. The study demonstrated the relevance of integrated actions to encourage the adoption of agricultural innovations which consider the interactions between environmental sustainability, health issues, and producers' economic priorities.

The Meaning within Moche Masks

2020 ◽  
pp. 180-212
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
North Coast ◽  
The North ◽  
Ritual Action ◽  
The World ◽  
Jequetepeque Valley ◽  
North Coast Of Peru ◽  
Shed Light

In this chapter, the author examines the remains of broken ceramic masks recovered in feasting middens at the Moche ceremonial center of Huaca Colorada (AD 650–900) in the southern Jequetepeque Valley of the North Coast of Peru. One objective of the chapter is to demonstrate that Moche masking traditions varied in terms of the rites and social context in which they were employed. The ceramic masks depicting Moche powerful beings became deeply meaningful and engines of semiosis in their own right within specific frames of ritual action. Those masks shed light on Moche theories of being and the workings of the world (i.e., “ontology”). Their iconography suggests they were worn by officiants who reenacted heroic myths and stories of creation in rites that promoted agricultural bounty, life, and fertility.

A Chimu-Inka Ceramic-Manufacturing Center from the North Coast of Peru

1997 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher B. Donnan
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
North Coast ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
The North ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Northern Peru ◽  
Jequetepeque Valley ◽  
Ceramic Manufacturing ◽  
North Coast Of Peru

A Chimú-Inka ceramic-manufacturing center, dating ca. A.D. 1470-1532, has been located in the Jequetepeque Valley of northern Peru. An analysis of a large sample of molds and over-fired sherds from the site indicates that the potters produced both local and Inka-derived forms—primarily mold-made utility wares. Since Inka aryballoid bottles were produced here, their production, and presumably their use, was more akin to utility wares for commoners than to ceremonial/administrative ware for the elite. Although there were numerous potters involved in the production of large numbers of vessels, the production was not organized with strict division of labor, but rather with each individual potter working on most stages of production.

A MOCHE CEMETERY AT MASANCA, JEQUETEPEQUE VALLEY, PERU

Ñawpa Pacha ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher B. Donnan
Keyword(s):  
Jequetepeque Valley
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