Spatial Configuration in Tiwanaku Art: A Review of Stone Carved Imagery and Staff Gods

This article highlights the scenic potential of Tiwanaku stone carved iconography (South-Central Andes, ca. AD 600-1000). It argues that aspects of Tiwanaku carved imagery may be approached as potential scenes of ritual action. The paper develops by taking into account the spatial configuration of t...

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Autor principal:	Viau-Courville,Mathieu
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino 2014
Materias:	Tiwanaku stone sculpture pre-Columbian art scene Staff God anthropomorphism Andes
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0718-689420140002000022014-12-03Spatial Configuration in Tiwanaku Art: A Review of Stone Carved Imagery and Staff GodsViau-Courville,Mathieu Tiwanaku stone sculpture pre-Columbian art scene Staff God anthropomorphism Andes This article highlights the scenic potential of Tiwanaku stone carved iconography (South-Central Andes, ca. AD 600-1000). It argues that aspects of Tiwanaku carved imagery may be approached as potential scenes of ritual action. The paper develops by taking into account the spatial configuration of the imagery that surrounds a specific set of anthropomorphs referred to as Staff Gods. An examination of Staff God imagery reveals how some elements in the iconography indicate that these personages may be human representations engaged in ritual action rather than representations of divine figures, i. e., cases of Andean divine anthropomorphism. Comparisons with Moche and Recuay scenic configurations also give further meaning to such a hypothesis.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessMuseo Chileno de Arte PrecolombinoBoletín del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino v.19 n.2 20142014-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-68942014000200002en10.4067/S0718-68942014000200002
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description	This article highlights the scenic potential of Tiwanaku stone carved iconography (South-Central Andes, ca. AD 600-1000). It argues that aspects of Tiwanaku carved imagery may be approached as potential scenes of ritual action. The paper develops by taking into account the spatial configuration of the imagery that surrounds a specific set of anthropomorphs referred to as Staff Gods. An examination of Staff God imagery reveals how some elements in the iconography indicate that these personages may be human representations engaged in ritual action rather than representations of divine figures, i. e., cases of Andean divine anthropomorphism. Comparisons with Moche and Recuay scenic configurations also give further meaning to such a hypothesis.
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title	Spatial Configuration in Tiwanaku Art: A Review of Stone Carved Imagery and Staff Gods
title_short	Spatial Configuration in Tiwanaku Art: A Review of Stone Carved Imagery and Staff Gods
title_full	Spatial Configuration in Tiwanaku Art: A Review of Stone Carved Imagery and Staff Gods
title_fullStr	Spatial Configuration in Tiwanaku Art: A Review of Stone Carved Imagery and Staff Gods
title_full_unstemmed	Spatial Configuration in Tiwanaku Art: A Review of Stone Carved Imagery and Staff Gods
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publisher	Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino
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Spatial Configuration in Tiwanaku Art: A Review of Stone Carved Imagery and Staff Gods

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