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Heads of state : icons, power, and politics in the ancient and modern Andes / / Denise Y. Arnold, Christine A. Hastorf



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Autore: Arnold Denise Y Visualizza persona
Titolo: Heads of state : icons, power, and politics in the ancient and modern Andes / / Denise Y. Arnold, Christine A. Hastorf Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Walnut Creek, CA, : Left Coast Press, c2008
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (294 p.)
Disciplina: 323.1198
Soggetto topico: Indians of South America - Andes Region - Politics and government
Indians of South America - Andes Region - Kings and rulers
Indians of South America - Andes Region - Antiquities
Head - Political aspects - Andes Region
Head - Religious aspects - Andes Region
Soggetto geografico: Andes Region Kings and rulers
Andes Region Antiquities
Andes Region Politics and government
Altri autori: HastorfChristine Ann <1950->  
Note generali: First published 2008 by Left Coast Press, Inc.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-279) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Headhunting in the Andes; Methods and the Organization of the Book; Part I - The Ethnography of Andean Head Taking and Power; 1. Heads in Small-scale Polities; 2. The Captured Fetish, the Mountain Chest, and Sacrifice; 3. Drinking the Power of the Dead; 4. The Nested Power of Modern Andean Hierarchies; Part II - The Archaeology of Andean Head Taking and Power; 5. Heads and the Consolidation of Andean Political Power; 6. Heads and Andean Political Change from an Archaeological Perspective; 7. Central Andean Political Developments
8. ConclusionsAppendixes; Sites and Toponyms Mentioned in the Text; Andean Cultural Sequences; Glossary; Notes; References; Index; About the Authors
Sommario/riassunto: 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 fieldwo
Titolo autorizzato: Heads of state  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-315-42755-9
1-315-42756-7
1-315-42757-5
1-59874-800-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910810662003321
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