El sacrificio de un cuchillo de sacrificio
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...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP) |
| Repositorio: | Revista de antropologia (São Paulo. Online) |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistas.usp.br:article/124263 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.usp.br/ra/article/view/124263 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | sacrificio ritual figuración códices escultura Mesoamérica Posclásico Sacrifice Ritual Figuration Codex Sculpture Mesoamerica Postclassical |
| Sumario: | 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 problematic ontological status of beings created from sacrifice |
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