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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... living and the dead , for example , how one can feed the dead by force - feeding one's body , the idea being that some of these nutrients pass into the bodies of the dead . Living persons who do this are thus able to open the channels ...
... living and the dead , for example , how one can feed the dead by force - feeding one's body , the idea being that some of these nutrients pass into the bodies of the dead . Living persons who do this are thus able to open the channels ...
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... living close to them , just as warriors kept their trophy heads close by in the very recent past . Throughout the Andes , especially during the Late Intermediate Period , the dead and the living were not always separated spatially . As ...
... living close to them , just as warriors kept their trophy heads close by in the very recent past . Throughout the Andes , especially during the Late Intermediate Period , the dead and the living were not always separated spatially . As ...
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... living beings through memory , ritual and other cultural practices , in the same economic sense dis- cussed in Part I. In a modern ethnographic setting , Allen ( 1982 , 1988 ) has shown how ancestral power permeates certain places ...
... living beings through memory , ritual and other cultural practices , in the same economic sense dis- cussed in Part I. In a modern ethnographic setting , Allen ( 1982 , 1988 ) has shown how ancestral power permeates certain places ...
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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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