Full Description
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
Contents
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 DescripciÓn 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
