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Titre(s) : Sacred matter [Texte imprimé] : animacy and authority in the Americas / Steve Kosiba, John Wayne Janusek, and Thomas B.F. Cummins, editors
Publication : Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xi, 457 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm
Collection : Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia
Lien à la collection : Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Sacred Matter: Animacy and Authority in the Americas examines animism in Pre-Columbian
America, focusing on how objects and places played central social roles in practices
that expressed and sanctified political authority in the Andes, Amazon, and Mesoamerica.
Pre-Columbian peoples staked claims to their authority when they animated matter by
giving life to grandiose buildings, speaking with deified boulders, and killing valued
objects. Likewise, things and places often animated people by demanding labor, care,
and nourishment. In these practices of animation, things were cast as active subjects,
agents of political change, and representatives of communities. People were positioned
according to specific social roles and stations: workers, worshippers, revolutionaries,
tribute payers, or authorities. Such practices manifested political visions of social
order by defining relationships between people, things, and the environment. Contributors
to this volume present a range of perspectives (archaeological, art historical, ethnohistorical,
and linguistic) to shed light on how Pre-Columbian social authority was claimed and
sanctified in practices of transformation and transubstantiation-that is, practices
that birthed, converted, or destroyed certain objects and places, as well as the social
and natural order from which these things were said to emerge"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Kosiba, Steve. Éditeur scientifique
Janusek, John Wayne (1963-....). Éditeur scientifique
Cummins, Thomas B. F.. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Animisme -- Amérique latine
Indiens d'Amérique -- Amérique centrale -- Religion
Indiens d'Amérique -- Amérique du Sud -- Religion
Indiens d'Amérique -- Mexique -- Religion
Indice(s) Dewey : 299.8 (23e éd.) = Religions des Autochtones d'Amérique du Sud
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780884024668. - ISBN 0884024660 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45865125m
Notice n° :
FRBNF45865125
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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
