HEADS OF STATE: ICONS, POWER, AND POLITICS IN THE ANCIENT AND MODERN ANDESLeft Coast Press, 15 ene 2008 - 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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... considered to represent the victorious Inka and his Coya exercising sovereignty over their subjects in a common realm , according to a system of laws and symbols of authority constituted differ- ently from today . As Platt emphasizes ...
... considered to represent the victorious Inka and his Coya exercising sovereignty over their subjects in a common realm , according to a system of laws and symbols of authority constituted differ- ently from today . As Platt emphasizes ...
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... considered to be like the flower decorations in the corners of the woven mantle that a woman weaves for the feast . In the very center of the plaza another head is buried in a pot ; it is considered to be " flowering " there at the very ...
... considered to be like the flower decorations in the corners of the woven mantle that a woman weaves for the feast . In the very center of the plaza another head is buried in a pot ; it is considered to be " flowering " there at the very ...
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... considered the center - periphery relations that derive from a world- systems approach , reworked in the Andes by La Lone ( 2000 ) and colleagues , but introducing internally generated changes as well as externally generated ones . We ...
... considered the center - periphery relations that derive from a world- systems approach , reworked in the Andes by La Lone ( 2000 ) and colleagues , but introducing internally generated changes as well as externally generated ones . We ...
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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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