The mountain embodied head shaping and personhood in the ancient Andes / Matthew C. Velasco.
| Author/creator | Velasco, Matthew Carlos |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2025. |
| Description | xiii, 255 pages illustrations 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
Deformities, Artificial--Political aspects. --Peru. --Colca River Valley (Arequipa). --History. --To 1500. Deformities, Artificial--Social aspects. --Peru. --Colca River Valley (Arequipa). --History. --To 1500. |
| Physical medium | illustrations |
| Series | The Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/e211b2be-44b6-2eb9-ad9c-e0bb00365093 ^A441638 |
| Contents | Of heads and mountains -- The specter of ethnicity -- The substance of personhood -- Emergence and entombment -- Embodiment and life course -- Becoming the mountain. |
| Abstract | "The ancient Andean practice of head-shaping--literally binding and reshaping an infant's head--has long served as a convenient marker of ethnic identity. What is less understood is what it meant within the cultures that practiced it. Head shaping was entangled with the politics of gender, kinship, and status at the local level, leading to different life experiences even among those with similar head shape. The approach strikes me as a kind of ancient intersectionalism; the author suggests we can think of head shape as we sometimes do skin color--it creates different conditions for different individuals based on many factors. Velasco is drawing on both ethnohistory and the actual bones to understand how head shaping functioned in the making of personhood for the people of Peru's Colca Valley. By situating cranial modification in both a local cultural history and in the individual life histories written in bone, he argues for a more dynamic understanding of what it meant to be modified--one that takes seriously the Indigenous worldviews and practices that animated relations between mountains and the heads shaped to resemble them"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024036148 |
| ISBN | 9781477331514 hardcover |
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| ISBN | epub |
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