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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... design , which he calls the " over - and - under motif , " to a weaving figure of zigzagging weft threads enclosing warp threads , said by some weavers to be like seeds in the earth ( 1999 : 120ff . ) . These vessels with zigzag designs ...
... design , which he calls the " over - and - under motif , " to a weaving figure of zigzagging weft threads enclosing warp threads , said by some weavers to be like seeds in the earth ( 1999 : 120ff . ) . These vessels with zigzag designs ...
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... designs on qiru drinking vessels , unku tunics , and the decorative painting on certain styles of tombs called chullpa dating from the Inka period , situated on the actual Chile - Bolivian border along the Lauca River . In this last ...
... designs on qiru drinking vessels , unku tunics , and the decorative painting on certain styles of tombs called chullpa dating from the Inka period , situated on the actual Chile - Bolivian border along the Lauca River . In this last ...
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... designs portray the female Coya figure as carrying a trophy head , if not actually taking the head ( Flores Ochoa 1990 : Figs . 10 , 15 , 16 ) . This might be why the focus in the qiru designs is on the youthful couple and their ...
... designs portray the female Coya figure as carrying a trophy head , if not actually taking the head ( Flores Ochoa 1990 : Figs . 10 , 15 , 16 ) . This might be why the focus in the qiru designs is on the youthful couple and their ...
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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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