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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The greater male capacity to manage this spiritual power , espe- cially in the context of head taking , is thought to engender both the cycles of agricultural , pastoral , and family production and the domain of political power ...
The greater male capacity to manage this spiritual power , espe- cially in the context of head taking , is thought to engender both the cycles of agricultural , pastoral , and family production and the domain of political power ...
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We suggest that both terms refer to the male “ desire ” for political power and authority originally derived from having taken a trophy head , now directed toward the stone heads of the ritual .
We suggest that both terms refer to the male “ desire ” for political power and authority originally derived from having taken a trophy head , now directed toward the stone heads of the ritual .
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Similarly , male authorities are charged with rainmaking rituals and female authorities with rituals associated with the land . A fourth example , particularly pertinent here , is how language maintains this dual system of political ...
Similarly , male authorities are charged with rainmaking rituals and female authorities with rituals associated with the land . A fourth example , particularly pertinent here , is how language maintains this dual system of political ...
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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 |
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| Título | HEADS OF STATE: ICONS, POWER, AND POLITICS IN THE ANCIENT AND MODERN ANDES |
| Autores | Denise Y Arnold, Christine A Hastorf |
| Edición | ilustrada |
| Editor | Left Coast Press, 2008 |
| ISBN | 1598741705, 9781598741704 |
| N.º de páginas | 293 páginas |
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