Download or read book Visual Culture and Indigenous Agency in the Early Americas written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how visual arts functioned in the indigenous pre- and post-conquest New World as vehicles of social, religious, and political identity.
Download or read book Indigeneity and Decolonization in the Bolivian Andes written by Anders Burman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigeneity and Decolonization in the Bolivian Andes: Ritual Practice and Activism explores how Evo Morales’s victory in the 2005 Bolivian presidential elections led to indigeneity as the core of decolonization politics. Anders Burman analyzes how indigenous Aymara ritual specialists are essential in representing this indigeneity in official state ceremony and in legitimizing the president’s role as “the indigenous president.” This book goes behind the scenes of state-sponsored multiculturalist ritual practices and explores the political, spiritual and existential dimensions underpinning them.
Download or read book Art Nature and Religion in the Central Andes written by Mary Strong and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From prehistory to the present, the Indigenous peoples of the Andes have used a visual symbol system—that is, art—to express their sense of the sacred and its immanence in the natural world. Many visual motifs that originated prior to the Incas still appear in Andean art today, despite the onslaught of cultural disruption that native Andeans have endured over several centuries. Indeed, art has always been a unifying power through which Andeans maintain their spirituality, pride, and culture while resisting the oppression of the dominant society. In this book, Mary Strong takes a significantly new approach to Andean art that links prehistoric to contemporary forms through an ethnographic understanding of Indigenous Andean culture. In the first part of the book, she provides a broad historical survey of Andean art that explores how Andean religious concepts have been expressed in art and how artists have responded to cultural encounters and impositions, ranging from invasion and conquest to international labor migration and the internet. In the second part, Strong looks at eight contemporary art types—the scissors dance (danza de tijeras), home altars (retablos), carved gourds (mates), ceramics (ceramica), painted boards (tablas), weavings (textiles), tinware (hojalateria), and Huamanga stone carvings (piedra de Huamanga). She includes prehistoric and historic information about each art form, its religious meaning, the natural environment and sociopolitical processes that help to shape its expression, and how it is constructed or performed by today’s artists, many of whom are quoted in the book.
Download or read book The Colonial Andes written by Elena Phipps and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2004 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This unique volume illustrates and discusses in detail more than 160 extraordinary fine and decorative art works of the colonial Andes, including examples of the intricate Inca weavings and metalwork that preceded the colonial era as well as a few of the remarkably inventive forms this art took after independence from Spain. An international array of scholars and experts examines the cultural context, aesthetic preoccupations, and diverse themes of art from the viceregal period, particularly the florid patternings and the fanciful beasts and hybrid creatures that have come to characterize colonial Andean art."--Jacket.
Download or read book The American Ecclesiastical Review written by Herman Joseph Heuser and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Angels at Pincher Creek written by Mabel Tupper and published by TEACH Services, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do miracles like those found in the pages of the Bible still happen today? Mabel Tupper didn’t think so. She was sure that the Bible miracles were true, but she didn’t think God acted in that way anymore. Then one night at a conference Mabel found herself listening to a little old woman share about some angels who had walked beside her the previous week! Mabel tucked that story away in her heart for several years. Little by little, and then more and more often, she heard stories of people who experienced direct answers to prayer in their times of need, often through the involvement of angels. Each story was carefully filed away. By the time Mabel retired, she had fat file folders full of stories proving that God still intervenes in the lives of His servants here on earth. Angels at Pincher Creek contains many of the stories that filled those folders. As you read, you will marvel at God’s providence and protection in the lives of His children around the globe.
Download or read book The Imperial Gazetteer written by Walter Graham Blackie and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Histories of Race and Racism written by Laura Gotkowitz and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians, anthropologists, and sociologists examine how race and racism have mattered in Andean and Mesoamerican societies from the early colonial era to the present day.
Download or read book Birdman of Assisi written by Jaime Lara and published by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines images and beliefs related to birdmen among Incas and other peoples of South America, and the transformation of that phenomena in the colonial era by Christian missionaries. The author brings to light previously-unknown images of Saint Francis of Assisi with wings, flying through the air as a militant angel of the Apocalypse. Although commissioned by the Franciscan friars, these works of painting and sculpture were executed by native artists with native sensibilities. They reveal a social critique of colonial society, an expectation of an approaching end of the world, and a controversial role for Francis of Assisi at a final cosmic battle. Natural catastrophes, such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, combined with mythology, prophecy, piety and public performance, assert a "Franciscan exceptionalism" at a crucial time in Latin American history. A side trip to colonial Mexico reveals that similar dynamics were occurring there, but with different artistic solutions. Birdman of Assisi documents how a beloved medieval saint gained new life among Incas and other native civilizations of the Americas, and continues to fascinate their descendants today.
Download or read book Indians of the Andes written by Harold Osborne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history and ecology of the Aymaras and the Quechuas: the highland peoples of the Central Andes, who formed the nucleus of the great Inca Empire which extended for two thousand miles along the Pacific coast to the fringes of the tropical interior. In twenty millennia the Indians of the Andes had had no cultural contacts with the Old World yet they had already passed independently through stages of development usually associated with the Neolithic Age and had achieved a degree of technical and artistic excellence. In four centuries of contact there has of course been appreciable acculturation and osmosis. Originally published in 1952.
Download or read book The Fishes of Western South America Part I written by Carl H. Eigenmann and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Andean system on basins Watershed profiles Enhancing agricultural water productivity through strategic research written by and published by International Potato Center. This book was released on 2007 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lists of elevations principally in that portion of the United States west of the Mississippi river 2d ed Collated and arranged by H Gannett 1873 written by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lists of Elevations Principally in that Portion of the United States West of the Mississippi River written by Henry Gannett and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 6th International Symposium on Andean Geodynamics written by Institut de recherche pour le développement (França) and published by IRD Editions. This book was released on 2005 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Glaciation and climate change in the andean cordillera written by Jacob M. Bendle and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-02-27 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite in the Valley of Indianapolis District of Indiana 1863 1924 Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Scottish Rite in the U.S. and in Indiana, including profiles of administrators.
