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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These historical accounts confirm how victors in battle , especially the Inka leaders , used the trophy heads of their defeated enemy leader as receptacles for drinking maize beer . ' For example , the Inka Pachakuti was known to have ...
These historical accounts confirm how victors in battle , especially the Inka leaders , used the trophy heads of their defeated enemy leader as receptacles for drinking maize beer . ' For example , the Inka Pachakuti was known to have ...
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One characteristic of the Macha tinku is that the ayllu men come drinking maize beer and dancing to the sound of panpipes ( jula jula ) . Before going out to fight , the combatants take to drinking with the right or left hand ( which ...
One characteristic of the Macha tinku is that the ayllu men come drinking maize beer and dancing to the sound of panpipes ( jula jula ) . Before going out to fight , the combatants take to drinking with the right or left hand ( which ...
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In a more corporal sense , the inscribed or painted designs on skull - like drinking vessels were read in an opposed fashion , but according to a common semantic domain , by victor and vanquished alike while drinking and speaking ...
In a more corporal sense , the inscribed or painted designs on skull - like drinking vessels were read in an opposed fashion , but according to a common semantic domain , by victor and vanquished alike while drinking and speaking ...
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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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