Sacred matter : animacy and authority in the Americas /

Sacred matter : animacy and authority in the Americas / Steve Kosiba, John Wayne Janusek, and Thomas B.F. Cummins, editors.

"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 clai...

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Other Authors: Kosiba, Steve (Editor), Janusek, John Wayne, 1963- (Editor), Cummins, Tom, 1949- (Editor)
Other title:Sacred matter (2020)
Animacy and authority in the Americas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2020]
Series:Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia.
Subjects:
To 1821
Animism > Latin America > Congresses.
Authority > Congresses.
Indians of Mexico > Religion > Congresses.
Indians of Central America > Religion > Congresses.
Indians of South America > Religion > Congresses.
Indians of Mexico > Politics and government > Congresses.
Indians of Central America > Politics and government > Congresses.
Indians of South America > Politics and government > Congresses.
Animisme > Amérique latine > Congrès.
Autorité > Congrès.
Peuples autochtones > Mexique > Religion > Congrès.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
Animism.
Authority.
Indians of Central America > Politics and government.
Indians of Central America > Religion.
Indians of Mexico > Politics and government.
Indians of Mexico > Religion.
Indians of South America > Politics and government.
Indians of South America > Religion.
Politics and government.
Animismus.
Indianer.
Kultgegenstand.
Religionsausübung.
Animisme > Amérique latine.
Indiens d'Amérique > Amérique centrale > Religion.
Indiens d'Amérique > Amérique du Sud > Religion.
Indiens d'Amérique > Mexique > Religion.
Mexico > Politics and government > To 1519 > Congresses.
Central America > Politics and government > To 1821 > Congresses.
South America > Politics and government > Congresses.
Mexique > Politique et gouvernement > Jusqu'à 1519 > Congrès.
Amérique centrale > Politique et gouvernement > Jusqu'à 1821 > Congrès.
Amérique du Sud > Politique et gouvernement > Congrès.
Central America.
Latin America.
Mexico.
South America.
Amazonas.
Anden.
Mesoamerika.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Table of Contents:
  • 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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