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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Página 127
... curation through weaving , but now integrated at a symbolic level into the wayñu performance . Referring to this creative female aspect of head curation , the weaver Elvira Espejo relates how in the wayñu dance performed annually at ...
... curation through weaving , but now integrated at a symbolic level into the wayñu performance . Referring to this creative female aspect of head curation , the weaver Elvira Espejo relates how in the wayñu dance performed annually at ...
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... curation . procedures ( libations , anointments , etc. ) contribute to the level of a sort of ac- cumulating interest rate . This , in turn , can be channeled either to agricultural or pastoral production or to the very curation power ...
... curation . procedures ( libations , anointments , etc. ) contribute to the level of a sort of ac- cumulating interest rate . This , in turn , can be channeled either to agricultural or pastoral production or to the very curation power ...
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... curation in the practices centered on the cherished ñatita skulls in La Paz , Bolivia , where the skulls tend to be selected from those who had violent deaths or persons who were thieves or dealt in contraband , points to an association ...
... curation in the practices centered on the cherished ñatita skulls in La Paz , Bolivia , where the skulls tend to be selected from those who had violent deaths or persons who were thieves or dealt in contraband , points to an association ...
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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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