This article puts together studies on sacrificial rites and reflections upon the expressive power and agency of certain images of pre-Hispanic art in Mesoamerica. Our focus rises from an ethnographic perspective of the relational complexity of the rituals. The article explores two specific cases in which one can observe a “split representation” in the sense of Boas’ and Lévi-Strauss’ approaches: the sculpture known as la Coatlicue of the Sala Mexica in the Museo Nacional de Antropología and the 32nd page of Borgia Codex. In both cases the split representation presents itself in contexts of ritual beheading; a new head emerges with two blood snake faces or two sacrificial knives seen by side. The ambiguity of these figurations expresses the ...
In this article we will deal with the sacrificial practices on the occasions of commensality in the ...
Este artículo interpreta en tres planos la tesis de Girard de que el sacrificio está en el origen de...
s tudents of ancient Mexican religion have long rec- ognized that the offering of human blood to god...
General History of the Things of New Spain by Friar Bernardino de Sahagún, contains plentiful inform...
The article goes on the presence of blood rites and rituals in human societies from very different g...
Current studies of sacrificial Aztec art in Pre-Colombian Mesoamerica are infected with a primitiviz...
This master's thesis deals with sacrifice by decapitation. Its goal is to describe systematicaly thi...
Partiendo de las evidencias icónicas del rasgo predatorio y sus equivalentes narrativos presentes en...
Ce travail propose de questionner un manque apparent de référents iconographiques à la pratique sacr...
Mesoamerica is a cultural area known by the resistance of several of its features to the passage of ...
International audienceBloodletting, together with a variable amount of pain, was probably common pra...
Abstract: The ritual killing of humans in the ancient Near East has received increased attention in...
This paper argues that the term ‘human sacrifice’ in the case of Ancient Mexican cultures is a tende...
A força da tradição é capaz de preservar costumes que caminham na contramão da trajetória sociocultu...
La investigación examina el devenir de la historia del arte desde el punto de vista de la teoría mim...
In this article we will deal with the sacrificial practices on the occasions of commensality in the ...
Este artículo interpreta en tres planos la tesis de Girard de que el sacrificio está en el origen de...
s tudents of ancient Mexican religion have long rec- ognized that the offering of human blood to god...
General History of the Things of New Spain by Friar Bernardino de Sahagún, contains plentiful inform...
The article goes on the presence of blood rites and rituals in human societies from very different g...
Current studies of sacrificial Aztec art in Pre-Colombian Mesoamerica are infected with a primitiviz...
This master's thesis deals with sacrifice by decapitation. Its goal is to describe systematicaly thi...
Partiendo de las evidencias icónicas del rasgo predatorio y sus equivalentes narrativos presentes en...
Ce travail propose de questionner un manque apparent de référents iconographiques à la pratique sacr...
Mesoamerica is a cultural area known by the resistance of several of its features to the passage of ...
International audienceBloodletting, together with a variable amount of pain, was probably common pra...
Abstract: The ritual killing of humans in the ancient Near East has received increased attention in...
This paper argues that the term ‘human sacrifice’ in the case of Ancient Mexican cultures is a tende...
A força da tradição é capaz de preservar costumes que caminham na contramão da trajetória sociocultu...
La investigación examina el devenir de la historia del arte desde el punto de vista de la teoría mim...
In this article we will deal with the sacrificial practices on the occasions of commensality in the ...
Este artículo interpreta en tres planos la tesis de Girard de que el sacrificio está en el origen de...
s tudents of ancient Mexican religion have long rec- ognized that the offering of human blood to god...