Doing DH 2015 –Digital Humanities Workshop

This site will be an inquiry into digital humanities as applied to research of art, objects, textiles and landscape in the colonial Andes.

Things to think about with regard to textiles and landscape:

*Do we know how textiles moved between communities, storehouses and centers of power in Inka Empire? And how did textiles move/transact under colonial power?

*Can we trace common practices, measures, communication systems re: textiles?

*How was textile production managed locally and regionally in Inka period, and versus colonial period?…and do we see corresponding variation or contraction of textile practices/communications system as result?

*What are the patterns, relationships, trends to look for…