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Heads of state : icons, power, and politics in the ancient and modern Andes / Denise Y. Arnold, Christine A. Hastorf.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arnold, Denise Y.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of South America--Andes Region--Politics and government.
- Indians of South America.
- Indians of South America--Andes Region--Kings and rulers.
- Indians of South America--Andes Region--Antiquities.
- Head--Political aspects--Andes Region.
- Head.
- Head--Religious aspects--Andes Region.
- Andes Region--Kings and rulers.
- Andes Region.
- Andes Region--Antiquities.
- Andes Region--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- First published 2008 by Left Coast Press, Inc.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-279) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-42755-9
- 1-315-42756-7
- 1-315-42757-5
- 1-59874-800-9
- 9781315427577
- OCLC:
- 680622603
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