Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient and Modern Andes
by
Denise Y Arnold, Christine A Hastorf
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
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...