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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... initial taking of a trophy head to found a new household , and its sub- sequent transformations in the hands of the newly married couple , also seem to structure the way that the house itself is perceived . In Qaqachaka and else- where ...
... initial taking of a trophy head to found a new household , and its sub- sequent transformations in the hands of the newly married couple , also seem to structure the way that the house itself is perceived . In Qaqachaka and else- where ...
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... Initial Period , located to the south . These group burials go back thousands of years earlier , to river dwellings at the edge of the Atacama Desert . At Paracas , the elaboration of each burial in its distinct wrapping first caught ...
... Initial Period , located to the south . These group burials go back thousands of years earlier , to river dwellings at the edge of the Atacama Desert . At Paracas , the elaboration of each burial in its distinct wrapping first caught ...
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... initial rituals in these contexts may also prepare warriors for their intermittent skirmishes on the frontiers of the polity . Contemporary and historical Qaqachaka seem to be examples of the former centrifugal political system ...
... initial rituals in these contexts may also prepare warriors for their intermittent skirmishes on the frontiers of the polity . Contemporary and historical Qaqachaka seem to be examples of the former centrifugal political system ...
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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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