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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... thought to help provide for the family in question over a three - year period . ( As we shall see , this three - year period is common in the rituals for the dead in general . ) This sequence of curation practices , then , cap- italizes ...
... thought to help provide for the family in question over a three - year period . ( As we shall see , this three - year period is common in the rituals for the dead in general . ) This sequence of curation practices , then , cap- italizes ...
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... thought to be the cannibalistic predator of predators . In the Andes generally , and in the region around Qaqachaka in particular , large felines in their guise as the " Master of the Animals ” are also thought to watch over the herds ...
... thought to be the cannibalistic predator of predators . In the Andes generally , and in the region around Qaqachaka in particular , large felines in their guise as the " Master of the Animals ” are also thought to watch over the herds ...
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... thought to become interwoven with the plant roots of the ayllu agricultural production , and so augment their yield . Still today , new animal heads , together with the ritual ingredients of witchcraft for ayllu defense , are carried ...
... thought to become interwoven with the plant roots of the ayllu agricultural production , and so augment their yield . Still today , new animal heads , together with the ritual ingredients of witchcraft for ayllu defense , are carried ...
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Acknowledgments | 15 |
11 | 30 |
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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