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Indigenous visual cultures in Latin America : seeing, being, and meaning / edited by Tamara L. Bray and Carolyn Dean.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- ontology (metaphysics).
- animism.
- Human figure in art.
- Anthropology--Philosophy.
- Anthropology.
- Art--Philosophy.
- Art.
- Archaeology and art.
- Ontology.
- Animism.
- Material culture--Latin America.
- Material culture.
- Indigenous art--Latin America.
- Indigenous art.
- Art and anthropology--Latin America.
- Art and anthropology.
- Visual anthropology.
- Indian art--Latin America.
- Indian art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 170 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "The study of Indigenous visual culture has historically been dominated by iconographic approaches focused on the appearance of things, attempting to interpret what is being represented. (Is that a peccary? A serpent?) The goal of this volume is to consider what might lie beyond representationalist interpretations by exploring other ways that objects and images may have functioned within ancient Latin America. (This is why the book does not have chapters about perhaps the two most prominent traditions of Latin American Indigenous art, that of the Maya or Moche.) Contributors to this edited volume emphasize materiality, in which meaning inheres, at least partially, in the physical substance of a work; process, in which the interaction between maker and material are co-constitutive; relationality, in which materials and viewers are understood to co-construct meaning; and intersubjectivity, in which artworks are viewed as sentient, agentic, and/or efficacious by the people who made, viewed, used, and interacted with them"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Blurring binaries / Tamara L. Bray and Carolyn Dean
- "Is it a peccary?" or "What is a peccary? : species identity and mimetic representation in first-millennium northwest Argentina / Benjamin Alberti
- Material witnesses : the matter of presence in Inka visual culture / Carolyn Dean
- An amoxtli (much more than a book) : the Descripción de Tlaxcaca and the construction of complex beings / Federico Navarrete Linares
- (Re)collecting the gods / Molly H. Bassett
- Pattern and relational ontologies in Indigenous Amazonian aesthetics / Els Lagrou
- Thinking beyond binaries : comments / Elizabeth DeMarrais.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4773-3309-6
- 1-4773-3310-X
- 9781477333099
- OCLC:
- 1528574560
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