Prompt week12

I believe Stern shares the same sense of ideology being an agent of change when he describes the society that existed in the Huamanga region.  The ideology that Stern states is one of community and family.  Stern describes on pg. 23 that even though the Inca had taken over the region and even with the collapse of the Incan regime that the local tradition of family ayllus remained how the region structured there society.  Stern also states that the belief of community and kinship created the interworking's of the regions societal structure.  Stern describes throughout the first chapter how the region developed bonds of kinship so that they could create communities to deal with the environment and other neighboring communities.  He states that each community developed there own personal identities.  The description of how these communities is a description of an ideology of family ties that links with the ancestor worship in the region.  The way that communities bonding in a form of kinship allowed for and identity to grow and structured the way that production and property were distributed.