Sacred matter : animacy and authority in the Americas

Weitere Verfasser: Kosiba, Steve , [HerausgeberIn]
Janusek, John Wayne, 1963- , [HerausgeberIn]
Cummins, Tom, 1949- , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Washington, D. C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2020].
Umfang/Format: xi, 457 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (some colour) ; 29 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia
ISBN: 9780884024668
0884024660
Schlagworte:
Animism > Latin America.
Authority
Indians of Mexico > Religion.
Indians of Central America > Religion.
Indians of South America > Religion.
Indians of Mexico > Politics and government.
Indians of Central America > Politics and government.
Indians of South America > Politics and government.
Mexico > Politics and government > To 1519.
Central America > Politics and government > To 1821.
South America > Politics and government.
Inhaltsangabe:
  • The nature of the world, the stuff of politics: exploring animacy and authority in the indigenous Americas / Steve Kosiba
  • Chiefly jaguar, chiefly tree: mastery and authority in the Upper Xingu / Carlos Fausto
  • Soul proprietors: durable ontologies of Maya deep time / Patricia A. McAnany
  • Burning sorrow: engaging the animacy of social-ecological life processes in native Amazonian death rituals / Beth A. Conklin
  • Descartes, Jesus, and Huitzilopochtli: ontologies / Byron Ellsworth Hamann
  • "Metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties": incarnation, incantations, animism, and the powers of Pre-Columbian visual imagery / Thomas B. F. Cummins
  • The Lanzón's tale / Mary Weismantel
  • Cosmopolitical bodies: living monoliths, vital tectonics, and the production of Tiwanaku / John Wayne Janusek
  • On the threshold of the huaca: sanctuaries of sound in the ancient Andean world / Marco Curatola Petrocchi
  • Buried alive: buildings, authority, and gradients of being in Northern Yucatan, Mexico / Scott Hutson, Jacob Welch, Shannon Plank, and Barry Kidder
  • Animating public buildings in Formative Period Oaxaca: political and ontological implications / Arthur A. Joyce
  • The material ambivalence of health and spirituality in colonial northeastern New Spain / Diana DiPaolo Loren
  • Southern Quechua ontology / Bruce Mannheim
  • Purpose, belief, and political action in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta / Santiago Giraldo
  • Shifts in the light: a journey through varied perspectives on animacy and authority in the Americas / Catherine J. Allen.

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