Mary Weismantel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3618682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Weismantel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Weismantel |
| SIGNATURE | WEISMANTEL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Occidental College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 361 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Ethnopornography
This volume's contributors explore the links among sexuality, ethnography, race, and colonial rule through an examination of ethnopornography-the eroticized observation of the Other for supposedly scientific or academic purposes. With topics that span the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the contributors show how ethnopornography is fundamental to the creation of ra…
Kinship in the Andes
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Encounters with dragons
Seeing like an archaeologist
This article juxtaposes Viveiros de Castro's theory of 'perspectivism' with carved stone monoliths from the Peruvian site of Chavín de Huantar to explore the interactions between humans, animals, and things in Pre-Columbian material culture. Using insights from new work on animal/human relations and the ethnography of shamanism and hunting, it illuminates aspects of the iconography, scale, and style of the stones that were previously opaque. Fina…
The Hau of the House
At the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, all architecture is domestic. Earlier sites in the Anatolian region of Turkey, such as the spectacular Göbekli Tepe, boast dramatic public spaces and monumental art. But at Çatalhöyük, despite a very large, very long occupation (perhaps two to eight thousand people from 7400 to 6000 BCE), it appears that no one ever built anything bigger than a house. Maps of the excavations show a mound honeycombed with small…
Substances
In this article, we argue for a multi-dimensional research strategy incorporating material, social and phenomenological analysis in the study of figurines and other human effigies. We call this approach 'following the material'. To illustrate, we examine two case studies: figurines from the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük (Turkey) and human effigies from the Formative region of Moche (Peru). We look first at the material substances from which artifa…
Obstinate Things
“Sexual silences” in archaeology: when Barb Voss and Eleanor Casella invited me to write on this provocative topic, I responded immediately. I planned to write a paper on the multiple silences that surround certain pre-Columbian ceramics I call the Moche “sex pots”: drinking vessels shaped like human genitalia and bottles about a foot high, bearing small figures engaged in a variety of sex acts (Figure 18.2). They are part of a large corpus of fi…
The Archaeology of Colonialism
This volume examines human sexuality as an intrinsic element in the interpretation of complex colonial societies. While archaeological studies of the historic past have explored the dynamics of European colonialism, such work has largely ignored broader issues of sexuality, embodiment, commemoration, reproduction and sensuality. Recently, however, scholars have begun to recognize these issues as essential components of colonization and imperialis…
Kitchenspace
Throughout the world, the kitchen is the heart of family and community life. Yet, while everyone has a story to tell about their grandmother's kitchen, the myriad activities that go on in this usually female world are often devalued, and little scholarly attention has been paid to this crucial space in which family, gender, and community relations are forged and maintained. To give the kitchen the prominence and respect it merits, Maria Elisa Chr…
American Ethnological Society
Moche Sex Pots
This article asks the question: What is a reproductive act? Ceramics produced by the South American Moche (A.D. 150-800) depict a wide variety of sex acts but rarely feature vaginal penetration. The cross-cultural literature, especially from Melanesia and Amazonia, is used here to argue that the relationship between sex and reproduction has been variably defined, with many acts-including anal and oral sex-sometimes perceived as reproductive. It c…
Race rape
A figure from Andean popular culture, the pishtaco, illuminates the relationship between white racism and sexual violence. Usually spoken of as a white killer of Indians, the pishtaco is often described as a rapist of both men and women, and a castrator of men. The destructive masculinity of the pishtaco resembles that found in other Latin American oral genres, such as Mexicano humor. The intersection of race and sex complicates the analysis, how…
Race in the Andes
Race, long discounted in Andean ethnography as relatively unimportant, is a social fact of great salience in the Andes. This essay introduces the articles in the special issue on race in the Andes with an overview of the interrelated intellectual histories of racism in the Andes, Europe and North America, from colonial proto-racism, to the totalising theories of the 19th century, to the heterogeneous 'neo-racism' found in the Andes today, in whic…
Vision, Race, and Modernity
Vision, Race, and Modernity:. Visual Economy of the Andean Image World. Deborah Poole. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.264 pp
Consumption and Identity
White cannibals
This paper challenges the commonly‐held view that race is relatively unimportant in the Andes, as elsewhere in Latin America. The terrifying white man known as the ñakaq, a ubiquitous figure in Andean folklore, points to the constant presence of racial fear and hatred within rural indigenous societies, as well as in urban zones. Analysis of the ñakaq as an indigenous representation of racial violence does not displace class and nation, gender and…
Children and soup, men and bulls
Response to McKinnon
Divisions and Solidarities
Making Kin
The biological definition of family at the root of functionalist kinship theory has been rightly criticized by contemporary feminist and symbolic anthropologists, but in retreating into an antinatural position such critiques simply recapitulate the limitations of an opposition between nature and culture in which the former is prior and essential, the latter secondary and historical. From the perspective of Zumbagua, where people become parents by…
Amazonia
Blanca Muratorio The Life and Times of Grandfather Alonso: Culture and History in the Upper Amazon. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991. 295 pp.Eduardo Viveiros de Castro From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society. Catherine V. Howard, trans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, 428 pp
Diet and Domestic Life in Society. Anne SHARMAN, Janet THEOPHANO, Karen Curtis, and Ellen Messer
Le temps de manger
Quels sont les rapports entre les temps, les rythmes sociaux et les pratiques liées à l'alimentation ? Dans quelle mesure celles-ci contribuent-elles à l'organisation du temps quotidien et des calendriers ? Dans quelle mesure sont-elles, en retour, réglées par les contraintes du temps ? On ne peut répondre à ces questions sans embrasser la diversité anthropologique, historique et sociale des conceptions et des usages du temps. Les études réunies …
Between Field and Cooking Pot
Towards a Transgender Archaeology
Making Kin
The biological definition of family at the root of functionalist kinship theory has been rightly criticized by contemporary feminist and symbolic anthropologists, but in retreating into an antinatural position such critiques simply recapitulate the limitations of an opposition between nature and culture in which the former is prior and essential, the latter secondary and historical. From the perspective of Zumbagua, where people become parents by…
Race in the Andes
Race, long discounted in Andean ethnography as relatively unimportant, is a social fact of great salience in the Andes. This essay introduces the articles in the special issue on race in the Andes with an overview of the interrelated intellectual histories of racism in the Andes, Europe and North America, from colonial proto-racism, to the totalising theories of the 19th century, to the heterogeneous 'neo-racism' found in the Andes today, in whic…
Consumption and Identity
Seeing like an archaeologist
This article juxtaposes Viveiros de Castro's theory of 'perspectivism' with carved stone monoliths from the Peruvian site of Chavín de Huantar to explore the interactions between humans, animals, and things in Pre-Columbian material culture. Using insights from new work on animal/human relations and the ethnography of shamanism and hunting, it illuminates aspects of the iconography, scale, and style of the stones that were previously opaque. Fina…
Substances
In this article, we argue for a multi-dimensional research strategy incorporating material, social and phenomenological analysis in the study of figurines and other human effigies. We call this approach 'following the material'. To illustrate, we examine two case studies: figurines from the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük (Turkey) and human effigies from the Formative region of Moche (Peru). We look first at the material substances from which artifa…
Moche Sex Pots
This article asks the question: What is a reproductive act? Ceramics produced by the South American Moche (A.D. 150-800) depict a wide variety of sex acts but rarely feature vaginal penetration. The cross-cultural literature, especially from Melanesia and Amazonia, is used here to argue that the relationship between sex and reproduction has been variably defined, with many acts-including anal and oral sex-sometimes perceived as reproductive. It c…
White cannibals
This paper challenges the commonly‐held view that race is relatively unimportant in the Andes, as elsewhere in Latin America. The terrifying white man known as the ñakaq, a ubiquitous figure in Andean folklore, points to the constant presence of racial fear and hatred within rural indigenous societies, as well as in urban zones. Analysis of the ñakaq as an indigenous representation of racial violence does not displace class and nation, gender and…
Ethnopornography
This volume's contributors explore the links among sexuality, ethnography, race, and colonial rule through an examination of ethnopornography-the eroticized observation of the Other for supposedly scientific or academic purposes. With topics that span the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the contributors show how ethnopornography is fundamental to the creation of ra…
Food, Gender and Poverty in the Ecuadorian Andes
Vision, Race, and Modernity
Vision, Race, and Modernity:. Visual Economy of the Andean Image World. Deborah Poole. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.264 pp
Children and soup, men and bulls
Response to McKinnon
Tasty meals and bitter gifts
Encounters with dragons
Race rape
A figure from Andean popular culture, the pishtaco, illuminates the relationship between white racism and sexual violence. Usually spoken of as a white killer of Indians, the pishtaco is often described as a rapist of both men and women, and a castrator of men. The destructive masculinity of the pishtaco resembles that found in other Latin American oral genres, such as Mexicano humor. The intersection of race and sex complicates the analysis, how…
Food, Gender and Poverty in the Ecuadorian Andes
Tasty meals and bitter gifts
Between Field and Cooking Pot
Le temps de manger
Quels sont les rapports entre les temps, les rythmes sociaux et les pratiques liées à l'alimentation ? Dans quelle mesure celles-ci contribuent-elles à l'organisation du temps quotidien et des calendriers ? Dans quelle mesure sont-elles, en retour, réglées par les contraintes du temps ? On ne peut répondre à ces questions sans embrasser la diversité anthropologique, historique et sociale des conceptions et des usages du temps. Les études réunies …
Amazonia
Blanca Muratorio The Life and Times of Grandfather Alonso: Culture and History in the Upper Amazon. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991. 295 pp.Eduardo Viveiros de Castro From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society. Catherine V. Howard, trans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, 428 pp
Diet and Domestic Life in Society. Anne SHARMAN, Janet THEOPHANO, Karen Curtis, and Ellen Messer
Response to McKinnon
Divisions and Solidarities
Making Kin
The biological definition of family at the root of functionalist kinship theory has been rightly criticized by contemporary feminist and symbolic anthropologists, but in retreating into an antinatural position such critiques simply recapitulate the limitations of an opposition between nature and culture in which the former is prior and essential, the latter secondary and historical. From the perspective of Zumbagua, where people become parents by…
Children and soup, men and bulls
Consumption and Identity
White cannibals
This paper challenges the commonly‐held view that race is relatively unimportant in the Andes, as elsewhere in Latin America. The terrifying white man known as the ñakaq, a ubiquitous figure in Andean folklore, points to the constant presence of racial fear and hatred within rural indigenous societies, as well as in urban zones. Analysis of the ñakaq as an indigenous representation of racial violence does not displace class and nation, gender and…
Race in the Andes
Race, long discounted in Andean ethnography as relatively unimportant, is a social fact of great salience in the Andes. This essay introduces the articles in the special issue on race in the Andes with an overview of the interrelated intellectual histories of racism in the Andes, Europe and North America, from colonial proto-racism, to the totalising theories of the 19th century, to the heterogeneous 'neo-racism' found in the Andes today, in whic…
Vision, Race, and Modernity
Vision, Race, and Modernity:. Visual Economy of the Andean Image World. Deborah Poole. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.264 pp
Race rape
A figure from Andean popular culture, the pishtaco, illuminates the relationship between white racism and sexual violence. Usually spoken of as a white killer of Indians, the pishtaco is often described as a rapist of both men and women, and a castrator of men. The destructive masculinity of the pishtaco resembles that found in other Latin American oral genres, such as Mexicano humor. The intersection of race and sex complicates the analysis, how…
American Ethnological Society
Moche Sex Pots
This article asks the question: What is a reproductive act? Ceramics produced by the South American Moche (A.D. 150-800) depict a wide variety of sex acts but rarely feature vaginal penetration. The cross-cultural literature, especially from Melanesia and Amazonia, is used here to argue that the relationship between sex and reproduction has been variably defined, with many acts-including anal and oral sex-sometimes perceived as reproductive. It c…
Kitchenspace
Throughout the world, the kitchen is the heart of family and community life. Yet, while everyone has a story to tell about their grandmother's kitchen, the myriad activities that go on in this usually female world are often devalued, and little scholarly attention has been paid to this crucial space in which family, gender, and community relations are forged and maintained. To give the kitchen the prominence and respect it merits, Maria Elisa Chr…
Obstinate Things
“Sexual silences” in archaeology: when Barb Voss and Eleanor Casella invited me to write on this provocative topic, I responded immediately. I planned to write a paper on the multiple silences that surround certain pre-Columbian ceramics I call the Moche “sex pots”: drinking vessels shaped like human genitalia and bottles about a foot high, bearing small figures engaged in a variety of sex acts (Figure 18.2). They are part of a large corpus of fi…
The Archaeology of Colonialism
This volume examines human sexuality as an intrinsic element in the interpretation of complex colonial societies. While archaeological studies of the historic past have explored the dynamics of European colonialism, such work has largely ignored broader issues of sexuality, embodiment, commemoration, reproduction and sensuality. Recently, however, scholars have begun to recognize these issues as essential components of colonization and imperialis…
The Hau of the House
At the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, all architecture is domestic. Earlier sites in the Anatolian region of Turkey, such as the spectacular Göbekli Tepe, boast dramatic public spaces and monumental art. But at Çatalhöyük, despite a very large, very long occupation (perhaps two to eight thousand people from 7400 to 6000 BCE), it appears that no one ever built anything bigger than a house. Maps of the excavations show a mound honeycombed with small…
Substances
In this article, we argue for a multi-dimensional research strategy incorporating material, social and phenomenological analysis in the study of figurines and other human effigies. We call this approach 'following the material'. To illustrate, we examine two case studies: figurines from the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük (Turkey) and human effigies from the Formative region of Moche (Peru). We look first at the material substances from which artifa…
Encounters with dragons
Seeing like an archaeologist
This article juxtaposes Viveiros de Castro's theory of 'perspectivism' with carved stone monoliths from the Peruvian site of Chavín de Huantar to explore the interactions between humans, animals, and things in Pre-Columbian material culture. Using insights from new work on animal/human relations and the ethnography of shamanism and hunting, it illuminates aspects of the iconography, scale, and style of the stones that were previously opaque. Fina…
Kinship in the Andes
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
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