HEADS OF STATE: ICONS, POWER, AND POLITICS IN THE ANCIENT AND MODERN ANDESThe 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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Visual Representations on Colonial Qirus of the Potent Energy . of Trophy Heads 99 The Space above the Feline Head 103 4 The Nested Power of Modern Andean Hierarchies 107 Personal Heads 108 Initiation Rites 109 Household Heads 110 ...
Visual Representations on Colonial Qirus of the Potent Energy . of Trophy Heads 99 The Space above the Feline Head 103 4 The Nested Power of Modern Andean Hierarchies 107 Personal Heads 108 Initiation Rites 109 Household Heads 110 ...
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Here we allude to the famous Andean flying heads , head imagery painted or modeled on ceramic pots , carved in stone , and head shapes ( or real heads ) used as the basis of serving or drinking vessels as well as the more abstract ...
Here we allude to the famous Andean flying heads , head imagery painted or modeled on ceramic pots , carved in stone , and head shapes ( or real heads ) used as the basis of serving or drinking vessels as well as the more abstract ...
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We resolve these lacunae , in part , by comparing these themes from an Andean perspective with similar issues in the Amazonian region . An ample litera- ture on the Amazon region already discusses head taking , human sacrifice ...
We resolve these lacunae , in part , by comparing these themes from an Andean perspective with similar issues in the Amazonian region . An ample litera- ture on the Amazon region already discusses head taking , human sacrifice ...
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Acknowledgments | 15 |
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Heads in Smallscale Polities | 37 |
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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 - 2016 |
HEADS OF STATE: ICONS, POWER, AND POLITICS IN THE ANCIENT AND MODERN ANDES Denise Y Arnold,Christine A Hastorf Vista previa restringida - 2008 |
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