1st Edition
Heads of State Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient and Modern Andes
293 Pages
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Routledge
293 Pages
by
Routledge
293 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Part I The Ethnography of Andean Head Taking and Power; Chapter 1 Heads in Small-scale Polities; Chapter 2 The Captured Fetish, the Mountain Chest, and Sacrifice; Chapter 3 Drinking the Power of the Dead; Chapter 4 The Nested Power of Modern Andean Hierarchies; Part II The Archaeology of Andean Head Taking and Power; Chapter 5 Heads and the Consolidation of Andean Political Power; Chapter 6 Heads and Andean Political Change from an Archaeological Perspective; Chapter 7 Central Andean Political Developments; Chapter 8 Conclusions;
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Denise Y Arnold, Christine A Hastorf
