New Perspectives on Moche Political

New Perspectives on Moche Political Organization
A Symposium Sponsored by
Dumbarton Oaks, Catholic University of Peru, and the Larco Herrera Museum
August 6 – 8, 2004
Friday, August 6th
9:00 – 9:30 Registration & coffee
9:30 – 9:45 Andrés Alvarez Calderón:Welcome
9:45 – 10:00 Isabel Larco, Jeffrey Quilter, and Luis Jaime Castillo B.: Opening Remarks
Morning Session Chair: Andrés Alvarez Calderón
10:00 – 10:45 Jeffrey Quilter: A Review of Past and Present Issues in Moche Political
Organization
10: 45 – 11:00 Luis Jaime Castillo: Moche Ideological Prestige and Political Power
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:00 Brian R. Billman: Investigating the Emergence of the Moche Political
Economy: A View from the Hinterland of Huaca de la Luna.
12:00 – 12:30 Discussion
12:30 – 2:30 Lunch at Larco Museum & Folkloric Dance Troupe
Afternoon Session Chair: Joanne Pillsbury
2:30 – 3:15
Steve Bourget: So Close and Yet So Far: A Comparison Between the
Huacas de Moche and Huancaco.
3:15 – 4:00
Claude Chapdelaine: Moche Political Organization in the Santa Valley:
A Case of Direct Rule through Gradual Control of the Local Population
4:00 – 4:15
Coffee Break
4:15 – 5:00
Jean-François Millaire: Moche Invasion, Moche Colonization or Moche
Influence in the Virú Valley?
5:00 – 5:30
Discussion
Saturday, August 7th
Morning Session Chair: Walter Alva
9:00 – 10:00 Coffee & pastries at museum
10:00 – 10:45 Santiago Uceda et al. Los de Arriba y Los de Abajo: Relaciones sociales, políticas y
económicas entre el templo y los habitantes en el centro urbano de las Huacas de
Moche.
10:45 – 11:30 Régulo Franco J. and César Galvez M., and Segundo Vasquez
Sanchez: Ideología y Poder Mochica en el Complejo El Brujo, Valle de Chicama.
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:30 Jose Canziani: Arquitectura y Urbanismo en el análisis de la organización
política Moche
12:30 – 1:15 Discussion
1:15 – 3:30
Lunch
Afternoon Session Chair: Jeffrey Quilter
3:30 – 4:15
George Gumerman IV, Kendall Campbell, and Gail Ryser: Moche
Politics and Food: A Synthesis of Moche Foodways in Relation to Political Organization.
4:15 – 5:00
Izumi Shimada: Moche Sociopolitical Organization: Rethinking Our
Data and Approaches
5:00 – 5:15
Coffee Break
5:15 – 6:00
Krzysztof Makowski: Religión, identidad étnica y poder en el “mundo Moche”: una
visión desde las fronteras
6:00 – 6:30 Discussion
7:00 – 9:00 Cocktail Party & Open Invitation to Noche Moche
Sunday, August 8th
8:45 – 9:15 Coffee & pastries at museum
Morning Session Chair: Andrés Alvarez Calderón
Keynote Speeches by Honorees
9:15 - 10:00
Christopher B. Donnan: Moche State Religion A Unifying Force in
Moche Political Organization (introduction by Luis Jaime Castillo B.)
10:00 – 10:45 Elizabeth P. Benson: Maya Political Structure as a Possible Moche Model (introduction by Jeffrey Quilter)
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30 William Fash: Commentary
11:30 – 12:00 Linda Manzanilla: Commentary
12:00 – 12:30 Discussion
12:30 – 12:45 Closing Remarks
12:45 – 4:30 Pachamanca – “Campesino Picnic” & Festival
North Coast Tour
Sunday, August 8th
_ Afternoon flight Lima – Trujillo, arrive hotel
_ Dinner on own
Monday, August 9th
_ Morning – tour Huaca de La Luna
_ Lunch in the Moche Valley after Huaca de La Luna tour
_ Afternoon – optional Chan Chan tour, Trujillo tour, or rest
_ Dinner – Club Central
Tuesday, August 10th
_ Breakfast at hotel, board bus
_ Morning — Tours of Huaca Brujo, Farfán, and San José de Moro
_ Lunch at San José de Moro
_ Afternoon – arrive Chiclayo; rest or tour town/market
Dinner – at hotel (?)
Wednesday, August 11th
_ Breakfast at hotel
_ Morning – Tour Sipán site & museum
_ Afternoon – return to Lima via flight from Chiclayo