Images in Action: The Southern Andean Iconographic Series


Series: Cotsen Advanced Seminar 6
ISBN: 978-1-938770-14-2
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Price: Hb $139.00
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William H. Isbell, Mauricio I. Uribe, Anne Tiballi, and Edward P. Zegarra

Emanating from a colloquium in pre-Columbian art and archaeology held at the University of Chile in Santiago, Images in Action presents interpretations of a large corpus of art and iconography from the Southern and South-Central Andes, bringing together some of the most esteemed scholars in the field. More than thirty authors, all with extensive experience in the Southern Andes, examine artifacts, artworks, textiles, archaeology and architecture to develop creative new insights on the cultural interactions between people in prehistoric western South America. The volume’s nearly 700 images are archived in an online database with metadata, fully referenced in the text, and searchable.  
Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: Social Interactions in the Southern Andes by William H. Isbell

Chapter 2. Identification, Definition, and Continuities of the Yaya-Mama Religious Tradition in the Titicaca Basin by Sergio J. Chávez

Chapter 3. Late Formative Period Ceramics from Pukara: Insights from Excavations on the Central Pampa by Elizabeth A. Klarich and Ceclia Chávez Justo

Chapter 4. Stone Stelae of the Southern Basin: A Stylistic Chronology of Ancestral Personages by John Wayne Janusek and Arik Ohnstad

Chapter 5. Travels of the Rayed Head: Textile Movement and the Concepts of Center and Periphery in the Southern Andes by Ann H. Peters

Chapter 6. Front-Face Deity Motifs and Themes in the Southern Andean Iconographic Series by Joerg Haeberli

Chapter 7. The Tiwanaku Ceramic Offerings of the Island of Pariti, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia by Antti Korpisaari

Chapter 8. The Tiwanaku Style in Cochabamba: How “Derived” Was It? by Karen Anderson

Chapter 9. Gods and Goddesses in Diaspora: Gender, Patriarchy, and Resistance in Tiwanaku Ceramic Iconography by Paul S. Goldstein

Chapter 10. Tiwanaku in the Tarapacá Region (Chile): Realities or Illusions in the Desert? by Carolina Agüero and Mauricio I. Uribe

Chapter 11. Visionary Plants and SAIS Iconography in San Pedro de Atacama and Tiahuanaco by Constantino Manuel Torres

Chapter 12. San Pedro de Atacama, Northern Chile: The Domestic Ceramics of the Late Formative and Middle Period by Emily Stovel and Michael A. Diebel

Chapter 13. Exploring the SAIS throughout the Middle Horizon in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile by Christina Torres-Rouff and Mark Hubbe

Chapter 14. Symbols, Offerings, and Metallic Goods from the Puna and Quebrada de Humahuaca, Northwestern Argentina by Myriam N. Tarragó

Chapter 15. Ayacucho and the Staff God Pantheon: Wari, Tiwanaku, and the Late SAIS Era by William H. Isbell

Chapter 16. Art and Elite Political Machinations in the Middle Horizon Andes by Donna J. Nash 

Chapter 17. Wari Textiles, Vehicles of Ideology, and Power during the Andean Middle Horizon: Iconography of the Weavings from Huaca Malena, Asia Valley by Rommel Angeles Falcón

Chapter 18. The Middle Horizon and Southern Andean Iconographic Series on the Central Coast of Peru by Peter Eeckhout

Chapter 19. Interacting Polities on the North Coast of Peru: The Moche and Wari Dilemma by Hélène Bernier and Claude Chapdelaine 

Chapter 20.  Mothers and Others: Female Images and Life Cycle Rituals in the Southern Andes by JoEllen Burkholder

Chapter 21.  Huari, Tiahuanaco, and SAIS: The Local and the Foreign in the Iconography of the Empire by Krzystof Makowski

Chapter 22. Snake, Fish, and Toad/Frog Iconography in the Ceramic Caches of Pariti, Bolivia by Martti Pärssinen

Chapter 23. Founding Fathers of the Middle Horizon: Quests and Conquests for Andean Identity in the Wari Empire by Patricia J. Knobloch

Chapter 24. From Structure to Cognition: The “Logic of Models” in the Pattern Systems of Middle Horizon Tapestry Tunics by Mary Frame

Chapter 25. Circum-Puna Style in the Art of Pre-Hispanic Hallucinogenic Paraphernalia (Atacama and Northwestern Argentina) by Helena Horta Tricallotis

Chapter 26.  Conclusion: SAIS and the Study of Southern Andean Prehistory by William H. Isbell