{"product_id":"sacred-matter-steve-kosiba-9780884024668","title":"Sacred Matter: Animacy and Authority in the Americas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSacred Matter: Animacy and Authority in the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e examines animism in Pre-Columbian America, focusing on the central roles objects and places played in practices that expressed and sanctified political authority in the Andes, Amazon, and Mesoamerica. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePre-Columbian peoples staked claims to their authority when they animated matter by giving life to grandiose buildings, speaking with deified boulders, and killing valued objects. Likewise things and places often animated people by demanding labor, care, and nourishment. In these practices of animation, things were cast as active subjects, agents of political change, and representatives of communities. People were positioned according to specific social roles and stations: workers, worshippers, revolutionaries, tribute payers, or authorities. Such practices manifested political visions of social order by defining relationships between people, things, and the environment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributors to this volume present a range of perspectives (archaeological, art historical, ethnohistorical, and linguistic) to shed light on how Pre-Columbian social authority was claimed and sanctified in practices of \u003ci\u003etransformation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003etransubstantiation\u003c\/i\u003e--that is, practices that birthed, converted, or destroyed certain objects and places, as well as the social and natural order from which these things were said to emerge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steve Kosiba\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0884024660\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780884024668\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dumbarton Oaks Research Library \u0026amp; Collection\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/12\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 474\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.30h x 8.90w x 1.10d","brand":"Steve Kosiba","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47244021727487,"sku":"9780884024668","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8d2709ad-83f3-4507-829b-31604e533bb3.jpg?v=1758134742","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sacred-matter-steve-kosiba-9780884024668","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}