Iconicity of the Uto-Aztecans

Snake Anthropomorphy in the Great Basin, the American Southwest and Mesoamerica

Tirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay, Alan Philip Garfinkel (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

266 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-972-7 (ISBN)

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Uto-Aztecan iconic practices are primarily conditioned by the consciousness of the snake as a death-dealing power, and as such, an animal that displays the deepest fears and anxieties of the individual. The attempt to study a snake simulacrum thus constitutes the basic objective of this volume. A long, all-embracing iconicity of snakes and related snake motifs are evident in different cultural expressions ranging from rock art templates to other cultural artifacts like basketry, pottery, temple architecture and sculptural motifs. Uto-Aztecan iconography demonstrates a symbolic memorial order of emotional valences, as well as the negotiations with death and a belief in rebirth, just as the skin-shedding snake reptile manifests in its life cycle.

Tirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay is Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico. He has taught at the University of Calcutta and Presidency College, India, and also briefly at the University of Texas at Dallas prior to his appointment in Mexico. An interdisciplinary scholar and former Fulbright Fellow, he travelled extensively across the American Southwest and Mexico to develop an interpretative view of Native American iconography.

Introduction

Chapter 1. Inmigrations of the First Uto-Aztecans

Chapter 2. The Uto-Aztecan Homeland

Chapter 3. The Primordial Snake Religion

Chapter 4. How Does Prehistoric Iconicity Emerge and Function?

Chapter 5. Anthropomorphism of the Uto-Aztecans, Animism, and Animalism

Chapter 6. Temporal Horizons of Uto-Aztecan Iconography

Chapter 7. Hunting Tool Iconography

Chapter 8. The Coso Anthropomorph and its Untold Secrets and Mysteries

Chapter 9. The Circular Snake of Time

Chapter 10. Outlier Indices in Aztec Icons

Chapter 11. Iconicity of Tlaloc in the Rain Praying Cultures of del Bajio

Chapter 12. The Binding Liberating Chain of Chupicuaro Pottery

Chapter 13. Mother Earth Snakes

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	18.04.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80073-972-9 / 1800739729
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-972-7 / 9781800739727
Zustand	Neuware