Iconicity of the Uto-Aztecans : Snake Anthropomorphy in the Great Basin, the American Southwest and Mesoamerica.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mukhopadhyay, Tirtha Prasad.

Contributor:

Garfinkel, Alan Philip.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2023.

Summary:

Uto-Aztecan iconic practices are primarily conditioned by the consciousness of the snake as a death-dealing power, and as such, an animal that displays the deepest fears and anxieties of the individual. The attempt to study a snake simulacrum thus constitutes the basic objective of this volume. A long, all-embracing iconicity of snakes and related snake motifs are evident in different cultural expressions ranging from rock art templates to other cultural artifacts like basketry, pottery, temple architecture and sculptural motifs. Uto-Aztecan iconography demonstrates a symbolic memorial order of emotional valences, as well as the negotiations with death and a belief in rebirth, just as the skin shedding snake reptile manifests in its life cycle.

Contents:

Iconicity of the Uto-Aztecans

Contents

Illustrations

Foreword

Preface

Abbreviations

Chronology

Introduction

Chapter 1. In-migratons of the First Uto-Aztecans

Chapter 2. The Uto-Aztecan Homeland

Chapter 3. The Primordial Snake Religion

Chapter 4. How Does Prehistoric Iconicity Emerge and Function?

Chapter 5. Anthropomorphy of the Uto-Aztecans, Animism, and Animalism

Chapter 6. Temporal Horizons of Uto-Aztecan Iconography

Chapter 7. Hunting Tool Iconography

Chapter 8. The Coso Anthropomorph and Its Untold Secrets and Mysteries

Chapter 9. The Circular Snake of Time

Chapter 10. Outlier Indices in Aztec Icons

Chapter 11. Iconicity of Tlaloc in the Rain Praying Cultures of del Bajío

Chapter 12. The Binding Liberating Chain of Chupícuaro Pottery

Chapter 13. Mother-Earth Snakes

Conclusion

References

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781800739734

1800739737

OCLC:

1369486134