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  • Rethinking Empire

    Materiality, Metaphysics, and Imperial Politics

    Modifié par Tamara L. Bray, Lori Khatchadourian ...
    Collections series School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series
    A new and characteristically innovative work from the School for Advanced Research's Seminar Series.This groundbreaking volume explores how dynamic interactions between human actors, material objects, and metaphysical beliefs shaped and sustained empires. From Han Chinese water management to Xiongnu drinking vessels, from Hittite royal imagery to Teotihuacan animal sacrifices, from Andean anti ... En savoir plus

    $42.04 CAD

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  • Indigenous Visual Cultures in Latin America

    Seeing, Being, and Meaning

    Modifié par Tamara L. Bray, Carolyn Dean ...
    Reframing the study of Indigenous visual cultures, this volume explores how images and objects generate affect and relation in non-Western contexts, foregrounding alternative modes of material engagement and meaning-making.While traditional approaches to Indigenous visual cultures have often centered on iconography and representation, this volume turns toward other ways that images and objects act ... En savoir plus

    $68.99 CAD

  • The Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feasting in Early States and Empires

    Modifié par Tamara L. Bray ...
    Collections series Social Sciences (R0)
    Food and feasting are increasingly recognized as having played a prominent role in the emergence of social hierarchies and the negotiation of power. Given the culinary nature of feasts, the archaeological visibility of such events is increased by the use of containers for both food preparation and consumption. The papers in this volume examine the commensal politics of early states and empires and ... En savoir plus

    $115.99 CAD

  • Archaeology of Wak'as

    Explorations of the Sacred in the Pre-Columbian Andes

    Modifié par Tamara L. Bray ...
    In this edited volume, Andean wak'as—idols, statues, sacred places, images, and oratories—play a central role in understanding Andean social philosophies, cosmologies, materialities, temporalities, and constructions of personhood. Top Andean scholars from a variety of disciplines cross regional, theoretical, and material boundaries in their chapters, offering innovative methods and theoretical ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

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  • Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica

    par Rosemary A. Joyce ...
    Gender was a fluid potential, not a fixed category, before the Spaniards came to Mesoamerica. Childhood training and ritual shaped, but did not set, adult gender, which could encompass third genders and alternative sexualities as well as "male" and "female." At the height of the Classic period, Maya rulers presented themselves as embodying the entire range of gender possibilities, from male ... En savoir plus

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  • The Teotihuacan Trinity

    The Sociopolitical Structure of an Ancient Mesoamerican City

    par Annabeth Headrick ...
    Collections series The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere
    Northeast of modern-day Mexico City stand the remnants of one of the world's largest preindustrial cities, Teotihuacan. Monumental in scale, Teotihuacan is organized along a three-mile-long thoroughfare, the Avenue of the Dead, that leads up to the massive Pyramid of the Moon. Lining the avenue are numerous plazas and temples, which indicate that the city once housed a large population that ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Rituals of the Past

    Prehispanic and Colonial Case Studies in Andean Archaeology

    Modifié par Silvana Rosenfeld, Stefanie Bautista ...
    Rituals of the Past explores the various approaches archaeologists use to identify ritual in the material record and discusses the influence ritual had on the formation, reproduction, and transformation of community life in past Andean societies. A diverse group of established and rising scholars from across the globe investigates how ritual influenced, permeated, and altered political authority, ... En savoir plus

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  • Maya Figurines

    Intersections between State and Household

    par Christina T. Halperin ...
    Collections series Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture Publication Initiative, Mellon Foundation
    Rather than view the contours of Late Classic Maya social life solely from towering temple pyramids or elite sculptural forms, this book considers a suite of small anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and supernatural figurative remains excavated from household refuse deposits. Maya Figurines examines these often neglected objects and uses them to draw out relationships between the Maya state and its ... En savoir plus

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  • Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica

    Modifié par Joshua Englehardt, Michael D. Carrasco ...
    Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica explores the role of interregional interaction in the dynamic sociocultural processes that shaped the pre-Columbian societies of Mesoamerica. Interdisciplinary contributions from leading scholars investigate linguistic exchange and borrowing, scribal practices, settlement patterns, ceramics, iconography, and trade systems, presenting a variety of ... En savoir plus

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  • Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América

    par Rodolfo Kusch, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Traduit par María Lugones, Joshua M. Price ...
    Collections series Latin America Otherwise
    Originally published in Mexico in 1970, Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América is the first book by the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch (1922–79) to be translated into English. At its core is a binary created by colonization and the devaluation of indigenous practices and cosmologies: an opposition between the technologies and rationalities of European modernity and the popular mode of ... En savoir plus

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  • The Social Life of Spirits

    Modifié par Ruy Blanes, Diana Espírito Santo ...
    Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else—symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. The Social Life of Spirits challenges this notion. By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Repeating Island

    The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective

    par Antonio Benitez-Rojo, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Traduit par James E. Maraniss ...
    Collections series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely new chapters that add a Lacanian perspective and a view of the carnivalesque to an already ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD