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Of Enemies & Venison: First Materials for an Aztec Cosmotechnic.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arsenault, Lou Manuel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anti-Colonial Struggle.
- Anti-imperialist movements.
- Cosmology.
- Indigenous labor.
- Philosophy.
- Genre:
- Critical Writing.
- Creative nonfiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Becoming Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "Situated deep within the ontological turn, this book brings together the philosophical anthropology of Descola and Viveiros de Castro, with the discourse that runs, through Heidegger, towards the world-building technics of Yuk Hui. Through a detailed study of the sacrificial and symbolic practices of Warfare & Hunting, Lou Manuel Arsenault uses these philosophies as tools to uncover a Cosmotechnic of the Aztecs. In the cosmology and way of life of Nahuatl-speaking populations of the Valley of Mexico and the surrounding regions during the post-classical period, Warfare & Hunting were inseparable ritual practices within which the distinction between beings-Human, Jaguar, and Deer, or Aztec, Mimixcoa, or Mother and Enemy-became blurred. Articulated here as an Aztec Cosmo-Technique of identification, it is argued that these ritual practices enacted a world with its own destiny, one which was trampled by colonial violence. Yet this destiny-Batalla's "Deep Mexico"-lies dormant, buried underground, buried in the literature, and in the archaeological record; this book works to unearth it."-- provided by distributor.
- Notes:
- Archived and cataloged by Library Stack
- Standard Copyright.
- Description based on online resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 2026-05-11).
- ISBN:
- 9925-8207-6-6
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