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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... image , enclosing head and flower - like seed images in their inter- stices , as images of the male warp ( see again Figure 3.2 ) . In the qiru designs studied by Allen , the role of the female as weaver is implicit . However , in other ...
... image , enclosing head and flower - like seed images in their inter- stices , as images of the male warp ( see again Figure 3.2 ) . In the qiru designs studied by Allen , the role of the female as weaver is implicit . However , in other ...
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... images become increasingly stylized as the earlier spaces are filled in . For most of the Nasca sequence , the images are clearly identifiable . Although some of the ceramic shapes and images are realistic portrayals of animals and ...
... images become increasingly stylized as the earlier spaces are filled in . For most of the Nasca sequence , the images are clearly identifiable . Although some of the ceramic shapes and images are realistic portrayals of animals and ...
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... images ( for example , the mucus coming out of the nostrils ) are associated here with the taking of certain plants to reach this stage of transformation . These images suggest that those who participated within the mound were involved ...
... images ( for example , the mucus coming out of the nostrils ) are associated here with the taking of certain plants to reach this stage of transformation . These images suggest that those who participated within the mound were involved ...
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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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