Heads of State: Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient and Modern AndesRoutledge, 1 jul 2016 - 293 páginas The human head has had important political, ritual and symbolic meanings throughout Andean history. Scholars have spoken of captured and trophy heads, curated crania, symbolic flying heads, head imagery on pots and on stone, head-shaped vessels, and linguistic references to the head. In this synthesizing work, cultural anthropologist Denise Arnold and archaeologist Christine Hastorf examine the cult of heads in the Andes—past and present—to develop a theory of its place in indigenous cultural practice and its relationship to political systems. Using ethnographic and archaeological fieldwork, highland-lowland comparisons, archival documents, oral histories, and ritual texts, the authors draw from Marx, Mauss, Foucault, Assadourian, Viveiros del Castro and other theorists to show how heads shape and symbolize power, violence, fertility, identity, and economy in South American cultures. |
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... societies” (Harrison 2006:831). Rather, we study the relationship between early political formations and indigenous warfare to contextualize historically the phenomenon of head taking in a wider Andean regional perspective. By ...
... societies” (Harrison 2006:831). Rather, we study the relationship between early political formations and indigenous warfare to contextualize historically the phenomenon of head taking in a wider Andean regional perspective. By ...
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... societies, historians have tended to overlook it. In Blood Rites (1997:196), Barbara Ehrenreich criticizes both Benedict Anderson and Eric Hobsbawm for having ignored the function of war as a vital factor in the forging of modern nation ...
... societies, historians have tended to overlook it. In Blood Rites (1997:196), Barbara Ehrenreich criticizes both Benedict Anderson and Eric Hobsbawm for having ignored the function of war as a vital factor in the forging of modern nation ...
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... societies in Burma as two sides of the same coin. Friedman argues that headhunting societies that practiced competitive feasting and continual warfare, and with tendencies toward reciprocal exchange, were, in fact, “structural ...
... societies in Burma as two sides of the same coin. Friedman argues that headhunting societies that practiced competitive feasting and continual warfare, and with tendencies toward reciprocal exchange, were, in fact, “structural ...
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... societies can be categorized as either more centrifugal and expansive in nature or more centripetal and inward looking, with more limited relations. The first category would be characterized by more offensive interethnic relations, and ...
... societies can be categorized as either more centrifugal and expansive in nature or more centripetal and inward looking, with more limited relations. The first category would be characterized by more offensive interethnic relations, and ...
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... societies in sociopolitical and economic relations and in institutional practices and their representations, including warfaring practices and head taking. As a result, these authors prefer to study these interrelations rather than the ...
... societies in sociopolitical and economic relations and in institutional practices and their representations, including warfaring practices and head taking. As a result, these authors prefer to study these interrelations rather than the ...
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Heads of State: Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient and Modern Andes Denise Y Arnold,Christine A Hastorf Vista previa restringida - 2016 |
HEADS OF STATE: ICONS, POWER, AND POLITICS IN THE ANCIENT AND MODERN ANDES Denise Y Arnold,Christine A Hastorf Vista previa restringida - 2008 |
HEADS OF STATE: ICONS, POWER, AND POLITICS IN THE ANCIENT AND MODERN ANDES Denise Y Arnold,Christine A Hastorf Vista de fragmentos - 2008 |
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