Objects in the World Townsend Working Group
Reference Syllabus
Texts from Recent Anthro230 Seminar on New Materialisms
Sara Ahmed Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
Karen Barad Meeting the Universe Halfway
Jane Bennet Vibrant Matter
William Connolly The Fragility of Things
Manuel de Landa 1000 Years of Nonlinear History
Brian Massumi What Animals Teach Us About Politics
Timothy Morton Realist Magic
Pierre Descola
Beyond Nature and Culture
The Ecology of Others
Eduardo Kohn How Forests Think
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
Cannibal Metaphysics
Radical Dualisms
Diana Coole and Samantha Frost New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics
(Open Access Humanities):
http://openhumanitiespress.org/new-materialism.html
Rick Dolphijn and Iris van der Tuin (eds) New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies
Texts from History of Art203 Seminar on Material Culture and Interpretation of Objects
Arjun Appadurai, "Introduction: commodities and the politics of value,” from The
Social Life of Things (1986).
Igor Kopytoff, “The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process,” from A.
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Clifford Geertz, "Deep Play: Notes on a Balinese Cockfight," Daedalus (1972)
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George Kubler, The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things (1962).
Mary and Elizabeth Kirby, Aunt Martha’s Corner Cupboard (1928).
M.M. Lovell, “Food Photography: Inverted Narratives of Desire,” Exposure 34: ½
(Summer 2001).
Craig Clunas, "Oriental Antiquities/Far Eastern Art," in Tani E. Barlow, ed., Formations
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Timothy O’Brien, The Things They Carried (1990), pp. 1-26, 67-85, 117-31.
Karen Lucic and Bruce Bernstein, “In Pursuit of the Ceremonial: The Laboratory of
Anthropology’s ‘Master Collection’ of Zuni Pottery,” Journal of the Southwest, v.
50, no.1 (Spring 2008), pp. 1-102.
Walter Benjamin, "Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Book Collecting, " from
Illuminations, Jarry Zohn, translator (New York: Schocken Books, 1985).
(High and Low (academic and folk art); Original and Replica; Crafting the Object)
Henry Glassie, "Tradition," Journal of American Folklore 108/430 (Fall 1995).
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, "An Indian Basket," from The Age of Homespun (2001).
Patricia Berger, "Pious Copies," from Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political
Authority in Qing China (2003).
David Pye, The Nature and Art of Workmanship (London: Cambridge U. Press, 1968).
(Collecting and Exhibiting)
Susan Stewart, “The Souvenir,” from On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the
Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection (1984).
John Elsner and Roger Cardinal, The Cultures of Collecting (1994)
Judith Zeitlin, "The Petrified Heart," Bulletin of Sung and Yuan Studies (1995).
James Clifford, “On Collecting Art and Culture,” from The Predicament of Culture
(1988).
Jean Baudrillard, The System of Objects (1968), translated by James Benedict (2000).
(Theorizing Consumerism I)
Grant McCracken, “The Evocative Power of Things,” “Diderot Unities and the Diderot
Effect,” and “Consumption, Change and Continuity,” from Culture and
Consumption: New Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods
and Activities (1990).
T.J. Lears, “From Salvation to Self-Realization,” from Richard Wightman Fox and T. J.
Jackson Lears, eds., The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American
History 1880-90 (1983).
Lothar Ledderose, “Casting Bronze the Hard Way,” in Ledderose, Ten Thousand Things:
Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art (2001), Chapter 2.
Craig Clunas, Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern
China (1991), Chapters 5-6.
(Gender)
Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959), Introduction.
M.M. Lovell, “The Empirical Eye: Copley’s Women and the Case of the Blue Dress," in
Art in a Season of Revolution (2005), pp. 49-93.
Angela Zito, “Signifying Emperorship: Of Portraits and Princes,” from Of Body and
Brush (1997) .
Bernard Herman, “Tabletop Conversations: Material Culture and Everyday Life in the
18thc Atlantic World,” in John Styles and Amanda Vickery, ed., Gender, Taste,
and (Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830 (2006).
(Theorizing Consumerism II)
Mary Douglas and Baron Isherwood, The World of Goods (1979).
M.M. Lovell, “The Forest, The Copper Mine, and the Sea: The Alchemical and Social
Materiality of Greene and Greene,” in A. Mallek and E. R. Bosley, eds.,A ‘New
and Native’ Beauty: The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene (2008), pp. 84-109.
Mimi Hellman, “The Joy of Sets: The Uses of Seriality in the French Interior,” in
furnishing the 18th c: What Furniture Can Tell Us About the European and
American Past, ed. Dena Goodman and Kathryn Norberg (2007).
(Space Culturally Constructed)
W.D. Meinig, "The Beholding Eye: Ten Versions of the Same Scene," from The
Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes: Geographical Essays (1979).
Dell Upton," Inventing the Metropolis: Civilization and Urbanity in Antebellum New
York,” in C. H. Voorsanger and J. K. Howat, Art and the Empire City: New
York, 1825-61 (2000), pp. 3-46.
Steven West, “Playing with Food: Performance, Food and the Aesthetics of Artificiality
in Sung China,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 57/1 (1997).
(The Interpreting Project)
Richard Shusterman, "Somaesthetics: A Disciplinary Proposal," from Pragmatist
Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art (2000).
Wu Hung, “Introduction: The Screen” and “The Night Entertainment of Han Xizai,” from
The Double Screen (1998).
Patricia Berger, “The Problem of Authenticity: A Historical Geography of Buddhist Art
in Eighteenth-Century China,” in Art of Merit: Studies in Buddhist Art and its
Conservation, ed. David Park, Kuenga Wangmo and Sharon Cather (London:
Archetype Publications, 2013).
Margaretta Lovell, “Dashing for America: Frederic Remington, National Myths,
and Art Historical Narratives” (draft).
Adapted syllabus from Image, Object, and Being in Latin America (600-1650 CE) course
courtesy of Lisa Trever, History of Art
the Iconic Turn, the Ontological Turn
--- Benjamin Alberti and Tamara L. Bray, “Introduction” to Special Section “Animating
Archaeology: Of Subjects, Objects and Alternative Ontologies,” Cambridge
Archaeological Journal 19, no. 3: 337–343.
--- Benjamin Alberti, Severin Fowles, Martin Holbraad, Yvonnne Marshall, and
Christopher Witmore, “‘Worlds Otherwise’: Archaeology, Anthropology, and
Ontological Difference,” Current Anthropology 52, no. 6 (2011): 896–912.
--- Keith Moxey, “Visual Studies and the Iconic Turn,” Journal of Visual Culture 7, no. 2
(2008):131–146.
--- Mieke Bal and Norman Bryson, “Semiotics and Art History,” Art Bulletin 73, no. 2
(1991): 174–208 [on the “linguistic turn”].
--- W.J.T. Mitchell, “The Pictorial Turn,” in Picture Theory; Essays on Verbal and
Visual Representation (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994), pp. 11–
34.
Pictures and Things in Literary Studies
--- Bill Brown, A Sense of Things; The Object Matter of American Literature (Chicago:
University of Chicago 2003).
--- Bill Brown (ed.). Things (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004).
--- Bill Brown, “Thing Theory,” Critical Inquiry 28, no. 1 “Things” (2001): 1–22.
--- Bill Brown, “Reification, Reanimation, and the American Uncanny,” Critical Inquiry
32, no. 2 (2006): 175–207.
--- Nelson Goodman, Languages of Art; An Approach to a Theory of Symbols
(Indianapolis an Chicago: Hackett Publishing, 1976).
--- W.J.T. Mitchell, Picture Theory; Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation
(Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994).
--- W.J.T. Mitchell, “Pictures and Paragraphs. Nelson Goodman and the Grammar of
Difference,” in Iconology; Image, Text, Ideology (Chicago and London: The University
of Chicago Press, 1986), pp. 53–74.
--- W.J.T. Mitchell, “What Do Pictures Want,” in What Do Pictures Want? The Lives
and Loves of Images (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005), pp.
28–56.
Alfred Gell, Bruno Latour, and Hans Belting: Anthropology of Art, Science Studies,
and Bildwissenschaft
--- Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter; A Political Ecology of Things (Durham and London:
Duke University Press, 2010).
--- Bruno Latour, “A Collective of Humans and Nonhumans; Following Daedalus’s
Labyrinth,” in Pandora’s Hope; Essays on the Reality of Science Studies” (Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1999), pp. 174–215.
--- Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social; An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
(Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).
--- Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, translated by Catherine Porter
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993).
--- Alfred Gell, Art and Agency; An Anthropological Theory (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1998), pp. 1–72.
--- Alfred Gell, “Vogel’s Net; Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps,” Journal of
Material Culture 1, no. 1 (1996): 15–38.
--- Hans Belting, “Image, Medium, Body: A New Approach to Iconology,” Critical
Inquiry 31, no. 2 (2005): 302–319.
--- Hans Belting, Anthropology of Images; Picture, Medium, Body, translated by Thomas
Dunlap (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011).
--- Hans Belting, Likeness and Presence; A History of the Image before the Era of Art,
translated by Edmund Jephcott (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).
--- Liana Chua and Mark Elliott (eds.), Distributed Objects; Meaning and Mattering after
Alfred Gell (New York: Berghahn, 2013).
--- Lorraine Daston (ed.), Things that Talk; Object Lessons from Art and Science (New
York: Zone Books, 2008).
--- Lorraine Daston (ed.) Biographies of Scientific Objects (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2000).
--- Robin Osborne and Jeremy Tanner (eds.), Art’s Agency and Art History, New
Interventions in Art History (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007).
Animism, Agency, Objects, and Materiality in Archaeology and Anthropology
--- Nurit Bird-David, “‘Animism’ Revisited: Personhood, Environment, and Relational
Epistemology,” Current Anthropology 40, no. S1, Special Issue “Culture—A Second
Chance?” (1999): S67–S91.
--- Linda A. Brown and William W. Walker, “Prologue: Archaeology, Animism, and
Non-Human Agents,” Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 15, no. 4
“Archaeology, Animism, and Non-Human Agents” (2008): 297–299.
--- Fiona Candlin and Raiford Guins (eds.), The Object Reader (London and New York:
Routledge, 2009).
--- Michael Carrithers et al. “Ontology is Just Another Word for Culture. Motion tabled
at the 2008 meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory (GDAT),
University of Manchester,” Critique of Anthropology 30, no. 2 (2010): 152–200.
--- Phillipe Descola, Beyond Nature and Culture, translated by Janet Lloyd (Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press, 2013).
--- Marcia-Anne Dobres and John E. Robb, “Agency in Archaeology; Paradigm or
Platitude?,” in Agency in Archaeology, edited by Marcia-Anne Dobres and John E. Robb
(London and New York: Routledge, 2000), pp. 3–17.
--- Paul Graves-Brown (ed.), Matter, Materiality, and Modern Culture (London and New
York: Routledge, 2000).
--- Graman Harvey (ed.), The Handbook of Contemporary Animism (Acumen, 2013).
--- Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad, and Sari Wastell (eds.), Thinking through Things;
Theorising Artefacts Ethnographically (London and New York: Routledge, 2007).
--- Ian Hodder (ed.), The Meaning of Things; Material Culture and Symbolic Expression
(London and Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989).
--- Ian Hodder, Chapter 1 “Thinking about Things Differently,” Chapter 5
“Entanglement,” and Chapter 10 “Conclusions,” in Entangled: An Archaeology of the
Relationships between Humans and Things (Malden: Wiley, 2012), pp. 1–14, 88–112,
206–222.
--- Tim Ingold, “Materials against Materiality,” [and the responses by C. Tilley, C.
Knappett, D. Miller, and B. Nilsson and the reply by T. Ingold] Archaeological
Dialogues 14, no. 1 (2007), 1–38.
--- Tim Ingold, “Rethinking the Animate, Reanimating thought,” Ethnos: Journal of
Anthropology 71, no. 1 (2006): 9–20.
--- Tim Ingold, Making; Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture (Milton Park:
Routledge, 2013).
--- Carl Knappett and Lambro Malafouris (eds.), Material Agency: Towards a NonAnthropocentric Approach (Berlin: Springer, 2008).
--- Lynn Meskell, Object Worlds in Ancient Egypt: Material Biographies Past and
Present (London: Berg, 2006).
--- Lynn Meskell (ed.), Archaeologies of Materiality (Malden and Oxford: Blackwell,
2005).
--- Lynn M. Meskell and Rosemary A. Joyce, Embodied Lives; Figuring Ancient Maya
and Egyptian Experience (London and New York: Routledge, 2003).
--- Daniel Miller (ed.), Materiality (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005).
--- Christopher Y. Tilley, The Materiality of Stone; Explorations in Landscape
Phenomenology 1 (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2004).
--- Christopher Y. Tilley, Body and Image; Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology 2
(Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press, 2008).
From Art History to Visual Studies
--- Svetlana Alpers et al. “Visual Culture Questionnaire,” October 77 (1996): 25–70.
--- Hans Belting, Art History after Modernism, translated by Caroline Saltzwedel and
Mitch Cohen (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003).
--- Norman Bryson, Michael Ann Holly, and Keith Moxey (eds.), Visual Culture:
Images and Interpretations (Hanover, NH: Published by University Press of New
England [for] Wesleyan University Press, 1994).
--- Whitney Davis, A General Theory of Visual Culture (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton
University Press, 2011).
--- Georges Didi-Huberman, Confronting Images; Questioning the End of a Certain
History of Art (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008).
--- Georges Didi-Huberman, “Preface to the English Edition: The Exorcist,” in
Confronting Images; Questioning the End of a Certain History of Art (University Park,
PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008), pp. xv–xxvi.
--- James Elkins, Chapter 1 “Art History and Images that are not Art” and Chapter 4
“What is a Picture,” in The Domain of Images (Ithaca and London: Cornell University
Press, 1999), pp. 3–12 and 52–67.
--- David Freedberg, Chapter 1 “The Power of Images: Response and Repression,” in The
Power of Images; Studies in the History and Theory of Response (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1989), pp. 1–26.
--- James Elkins (ed.), Is Art History Global? (New York and London: Routledge, 2007).
--- James Elkins and Kristi McGui (eds.), Theorizing Visual Studies: Writing through the
Discipline (New York: Routledge, 2013).
--- James Elkins and Maja Naef (eds.), What Is an Image? (University Park, PA:
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011).
--- E. H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion; A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial
Representation, The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1956, Bollingen Series
XXXV:5, Millennium edition (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2000).
--- Michael Ann Holly and Keith Moxey (eds.), Art History, Aesthetics, Visual Studies
(Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2002).
--- Robert Maniura and Rupert Shepherd (eds.), Presence: The Inherence of the
Prototype within Images and Other Objects (Aldergate, England: Ashgate, 2006).
--- Keith Moxey, Visual Time: The Image in History (Durham: Duke University Press,
2013).
--- Esther Pasztory, Thinking with Things; Toward a New Vision of Art (Austin:
University of Texas Press, 2005).
--- David Summers, “Introduction,” in Real Spaces; World Art History and the Rise of
Western Modernism (London and New York, 2003), pp. 15–60.
Pre-Hispanic Central Mexico and New Spain: Ixiptla, Mimesis, and Living Images
--- Elizabeth Hill Boone, “Huitzilopotchli in the Templo Mayor,” in Incarnations of the
Aztec Supernatural: The Images of Huitzilopotchli in Mexico and Europe, Transactions
of the American Philosophical Society 79, no. 2 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical
Society, 1989), pp. 42–54
--- Alejandro Cañeque, The King’s Living Image; The Culture and Politics of Viceregal
Power in Colonial Mexico (New York: Routledge, 2004).
--- Serge Gruzinski, Chapter 1 “Points of Reference,” in Images at War: Mexico from
Columbus to Blade Runner (1492–2019), translated by Heather LacLean (Durham and
London: Duke University Press, 2001), pp. 7–29.
--- Arild Hvidtfeldt, Teotl and Ixiptlatli: Some Central Conceptions in Ancient Mexican
Religion (Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1958), pp. 70–101 and 140–142.
--- Alfredo López Austin, Chapter 5: “The Animistic Centers” and Chapter 6: “The
Animistic Entitites,” in The Human Body and Ideology; Concepts of the Ancient Nahuas
[Cuerpo humano e ideología: Las concepciones de los antiguos Nahuas], translated by
Thelma Ortiz de Montellano and Bernard Ortiz de Montellano (Salt Lake City:
University of Utah Press, 1988), vol. 1, pp. 180–201 and 203–236.
--- Miguel León Portilla, Aztec Thought and Culture; A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl
Mind, translated by Jack Emory Davis (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963).
--- Alessandra Russo, The Untranslatable Image: A Mestizo History of the Arts in New
Spain (Austin: University of Texas Press, [forthcoming Feb. 2014]).
--- Bernardino de Sahagún, Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, edited by
Alfredo López Austin and Josefina García Quintana (Mexico City: Fomento Cultural
Banamex, 1982).
--- Bernardino de Sahagún, Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, facsimile
online:
http://www.wdl.org/en/item/10096/zoom/#group=1&page=1&zoom=0.8113&centerX=0.
5000&centerY=0.7232
--- Bernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain; Florentine
Codex, translated and edited by Arthur J.O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble, preface by
Miguel León Portilla (Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research; Salt Lake City:
University of Utah Press, 1950–1982), 13 vols.
--- Michael Schreffler, “‘Their Cortés and Our Cortes’: Spanish Colonialism and Aztec
Representation,” The Art Bulletin 91, no. 4 (2009): 407–425.
--- Gerhard Wolf, Alessandra Russo, and Diana Fane (eds.), Images Take Flight;
Feather Art in Mexico and Europe (Himmer, [forthcoming Feb. 2014]).
--- Alessandra Russo, “Plumes of Sacrifice: Transformation in Sixteenth-Century Feather
Art,” Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 42 (2002): 226–250.
Early Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica: Art Historical, Archaeological, and Epigraphic
Studies
--- Claudia Brittenham, “Style and Substance, or Why the Cacaxtla Paintings were
Buried,” Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 55/56 “Absconding” (2009): 135–155.
--- Allen J. Christenson, Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya (Norman: University
of Oklahoma Press, 2007).
--- Julia A. Hendon, Houses in a Landscape: Memory and Everyday Life in
Mesoamerica (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010).
--- Stephen Houston, David Stuart, and Karl Taube, Memory of the Bones; Body, Being,
and Experience among the Classic Maya (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006).
--- Stephen Houston, The Life Within: Classic Maya and the Matter of Permanence (New
Haven: Yale University Press, [forthcoming Jan.–Mar 2014]).
--- Stephen D. Houston and Tom Cummins, “Body, Presence, and Space in Andean and
Mesoamerican Rulership,” in Palaces of the Ancient New World, edited by Susan Toby
Evans and Joanne Pillsbury (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and
Collection, 2004), pp. 359–398.
--- Stephen Houston and David Stuart, “The Ancient Maya Self: Personhood and
Portraiture in the Classic Period,” Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 33 “Pre-Columbian
States of Being” (1998): 73–101.
--- Rosemary A. Joyce, Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender, and Archaeology
(New York: Thames and Hudson, 2008).
--- Rosemary A. Joyce, “Performing the Body in Pre-Hispanic Central America,” Res:
Anthropology and Aesthetics 33 “Pre-Columbian States of Being” (1998): 147–165.
--- Megan E. O’Neil, Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012).
--- Megan E. O’Neil, “Ancient Maya Sculptures of Tikal, Seen and Unseen,” Res:
Anthropology and Aesthetics 55/56 “Absconding” (2009): 119–134.
--- James B. Porter, “Olmec Colossal Heads as Recarved Thrones: “Mutilation,”
Revolution, and Recarving,” Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 17/18 (1989): 22–29.
--- Jeffrey Quilter (guest editor), Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 33 “Pre-Columbian
States of Being” (1998) [See other essays in this issue of the journal].
--- Prudence M. Rice, Maya Political Science: Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004).
--- Nicholas J. Saunders, “‘Catching the Light’: Technologies of Power and Enchantment
in Pre-Columbian Gold-Working,” in Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama,
and Colombia, edited by Jeffrey Quilter and John W. Hoopes (Washington, DC:
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2003), pp. 15–47.
--- Michael Schreffler, “‘Their Cortés and Our Cortes’: Spanish Colonialism and Aztec
Representation,” The Art Bulletin 91, no. 4 (2009): 407–425.
--- Dennis Tedlock, Breath on the Mirror: Mythic Voices & Visions of the Living Maya
(San Francisco: Harper, 1993).
Shamanism and States of Being
--- David A. Freidel, Linda Schele, and Joy Parker, Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand
Years on the Shaman’s Path (New York: W. Morrow, 1993).
--- Henri-Paul Francfort and Roberte N. Hamayon (eds.), The Concept of Shamanism:
Uses and Abuses, International Society for Shamanistic Research (Budapest: Akadémiai
Kiadó, 2001).
--- William F. Hanks, “Counterparts: Co-Presence and Ritual Intersubjectivity,”
Language and Communication; An Interdisciplinary Journal 33, no. 3 (2013), 263–277.
--- William A. Haviland and Anita de Laguna Haviland, “Glimpses of the Supernatural:
Altered States of Consciousness and the Graffiti of Tikal, Guatemala,” Latin American
Antiquity 6, no. 4 (1995): 295–309.
--- Donald Joralemon and Douglas Sharon, Sorcery and Shamanism: Curanderos and
Clients in Northern Peru (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1993).
--- Cecelia F. Klein, Eulogio Guzmán, Elisa C. Mandell, and Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, “The
Role of Shamanism in Mesoamerican Art: A Reassessment,” Current Anthropology 43,
no. 3 (2002): 383–419.
--- Luis Millones and Moisés Lemlij (eds.), En el nombre del señor; Shamanes,
demonios y curanderos del norte del Perú (Lima: Seminario Interdisciplinario de
Estudios Andinos, 1994).
--- Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, The Shaman and the Jaguar: A Study of Narcotic Drugs
among the Indians of Colombia (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1975).
--- Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, Goldwork and Shamanism: An Iconographic Study of the
Gold Museum of the Banco de la República, Colombia (Bogotá: Villegas Editores, 2005).
--- Rebecca R. Stone, Chapter 7 “Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Central Andean Art
I: Toward the Human End and the Balance Point of the Flux Continuum,” Chapter 8
“Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Central Andean Art II: Toward the Animal End and
Beyond the Flux Continuum,” and “Conclusion,” in The Jaguar Within; Shamanic
Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art (Austin: University of Texas Press,
2011), pp. 149–210.
--- Eduardo Vivieros de Castro, “Exchanging Perspectives; The Transformation of
Objects into Subjects in Amerindian Ontologies,” Common Knowledge 10, no. 3 (2004):
463–484.
The Early Pre-Hispanic Andes: Embodiment, Objects, and Animacy
--- Catherine J. Allen, “When Utensils Revolt: Mind, Matter, and Modes of Being in the
Pre-Columbian Andes,” Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 33 “Pre-Columbian States of
Being” (1998): 18–27.
--- Steve Bourget, Sex, Death, and Sacrifice in Moche Religion and Visual Culture
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006).
--- William J. Conklin and Jeffrey Quilter (eds.), Chavín: Art, Architecture, and Culture
(Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, 2008).
--- Christopher B. Donnan, Pre-Columbian Symbolic Communication (Los Angeles:
Museum of Cultural History, University of California, 1978).
--- Margaret A. Jackson, Moche Art and Visual Culture in Ancient Peru (Albuquerque:
University of New Mexico Press, 2008).
--- Heather Lechtman, “Cloth and Metal: The Culture of Technology,” in Andean Art at
Dumbarton Oaks, edited by Elizabeth Hill Boone (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks
Research Library and Collection, 1996): vol. 1, pp. 33–43.
--- Patricia J. Lyon, “Arqueología y mitología: La escena de ‘los objetos animados’ y el
tema de ‘el alzamiento de los objectos,’” Scripta etnológica 6 (1981): 105–108.
--- Jeffrey Quilter, “The Moche Revolt of the Objects,” Latin American Antiquity 1, no. 1
(1990); 42–65.
--- Mary Weismantel, “Coming to Our Senses at Chavín de Huantar,” Making Senses of
the Past: Toward a Sensory Archaeology, edited by Jo Day (Carbondale: Southern
Illinois University Press, 2013), pp. 113–136.
-- Mary Weismantel, “Moche Sex Pots: Reproduction and Temporality in Ancient South
America,” American Anthropologist 106, no. 3 (2004): 495–505.
--- Mary Weismantel, “Inhuman Eyes: Looking at Chavín de Huantar,” in Relational
Archaeologies: Humans, Animals, Things, edited by Christopher Watts (Routledge,
2013), pp. 21–41.
--- Mary Weismantel, “Obstinate Things,” in The Archaeology of Colonialism; Intimate
Encounters and Sexual Effects, edited by Barbara L. Voss and Eleanor Conlin Casella
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 303–320.
--- Joanne Pillsbury (ed.), Moche Art and Archaeology in Ancient Peru (Washington,
DC: National Gallery of Art, 2001).
Huarochirí, the Incas, and Colonial Peru: Camay, Substance, Material and
Metonymy
--- Catherine J. Allen, “The Incas Have Gone Inside: Pattern and Persistence in Andean
Iconography,” Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 42 (2002): 180–203.
--- Denise Y. Arnold and Christine Hastorf, Heads of State; Icons, Power, and Politics in
the Ancient and Modern Andes (Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2008).
--- Tamara L. Bray, “An Archaeological Perspective on the Andean Concept of
Camaquen: Thinking through Late Pre-Columbian Ofrendas and Huacas,” Cambridge
Archaeological Journal 19, no. 3 (2009): 357–366.
--- Constance Classen, Inca Cosmology and the Human Body (Salt Lake City: University
of Utah Press, 1993).
--- Thomas B. F. Cummins, Toasts with the Inca: Andean Abstraction and Colonial
Images on Quero Vessels (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002).
--- Tom Cummins and Bruce Mannheim, “Editorial: The River Around Us, The Stream
Within Us: The Traces of the Sun and Inka Kinetics,” Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics
59/60 (2011): 5–21.
--- Carolyn Dean, A Culture of Stone: Inka Perspectives on Rock (Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, 2010).
--- Carolyn Dean, “The Inka Married the Earth: Integrated Outcrops and the Making of
Place,” The Art Bulletin 89, no. 3 (2007): 502–518.
--- Carolyn E. Dean, “Metonymy in Inca Art,” in Presence: The Inherence of the
Prototype within Images and Other Objects, edited by Robert Maniura and Rupert
Shepherd (Aldergate, England: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 105–120.
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