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Indigenous Visual Cultures in Latin America

Seeing, Being, and Meaning
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Reframing the study of Indigenous visual culture, this volume explores how images and objects generate affect and relation in non-Western contexts, foregrounding alternative modes of material engagement and meaning-making
List of Illustrations Chapter 1. Blurring Binaries (Tamara L. Bray and Carolyn Dean) Chapter 2. "Is It a Peccary?" or "What Is a Peccary?": Species Identity and Mimetic Representation in First-Millennium Northwest Argentina (Benjamin Alberti) Chapter 3. Material Witnesses: The Matter of Presence in Inka Visual Culture (Carolyn Dean) Chapter 4. An Amoxtli (Much More than a Book): The DescripciOn de Tlaxcala and the Construction of Complex Beings (Federico Navarrete Linares) Chapter 5. (Re)collecting the Gods (Molly H. Bassett) Chapter 6. Pattern and Relational Ontologies in Indigenous Amazonian Aesthetics (Els Lagrou) Chapter 7. Thinking Beyond Binaries: Comments (Elizabeth DeMarrais) Contributors Index
The diverse contributions to this volume bring focus to the important issue of representation in Indigenous arts of Latin America, seeking to upend Euro-American approaches to reading images that often predominate in scholarship. - Andrew James Hamilton, Art Institute of Chicago, author of The Royal Inca Tunic: A Biography of an Andean Masterpiece This volume digs deep to seed an exciting new approach to the arts and cultures of Indigenous Latin America. Its chapters encourage a refreshed kind of theoretical regimen that moves away from traditional frames (e.g., iconography, Cartesian binaries, and Western epistemologies). And they combine to offer novel considerations of materiality by privileging natively held beliefs and practices centered on making, objects-subjects, and their social relations. This compact volume succeeds because the contributors find value in the region's heterogeneity and an openness to Indigenous knowledge and perspectives. It is a volume well worth visiting and revisiting. - George Lau, University of East Anglia, author of An Archaeology of Ancash: Stones, Ruins, and Communities in Andean Peru
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