Penelope Dransart
Biographic Data
| ID | 3639988 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Penelope Dransart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Penelope |
| FAMILY NAME | Dransart |
| SIGNATURE | DRANSART P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Entrevista a Penelope Dransart
basndose en las asociaciones elementales con su entorno.Se interes por la manera en que sus vidas y sus creencias estn ntimamente ligadas al sol y a la noche, a los cerros, al ro y al mar.En el ltimo ao, cuando Penelope Dransart se encontraba escribiendo su tesis doctoral, su supervisor fue Howard Morphy, autor de Ancestral connections, art and an Aboriginal system of knowledge (1991), en el que examin cmo los artistas yolgnu, de Australia, codif…
Camelid Fleece and the Hidden Histories of Colors in the Andes
This article explores the significance of natural fleece colors that are often hidden by dyeing processes. The earliest domesticated alpacas and llamas probably resembled vicuñas and guanacos, their wild counterparts. By 3000 years ago, differences were beginning to emerge in the coats of alpacas and llamas. Dyers, spinners, and weavers learned to exploit these variations to complement and extend the range of possibilities offered through the use…
When the Winds Run with the Earth
This report uses a conceptual frame of "weather-worlding" to approach, in an atmospherically attuned manner, people's knowledge concerning the formation and transformation of weather conditions. It explores observed patterning in winds and rains as a product of more than a single generation's understanding. New ethnographic fieldwork findings from Isluga, northern Chile, are juxtaposed with information from notes made during previous periods of f…
A highland textile tradition from the far south of Peru during the period of Inka domination
A group of garments and textile fragments is identified in this article as belonging to a particular textile tradition, with characteristics indicating an affiliation to communities in the highlands of the South-Central Andes. Different categories of gender-specific garments are presented. The characteristics include an all-camelid construction, warp-patterned stripes in blocks of alternating colours, the use of a discontinuous warp and transpose…
At the Mountains' Altar
Reviewed: At the Mountains’ Altar: Anthropology of Religion in an Andean Community. By Frank Salomon. Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2018. xvi + 235 pp. Hardback: US$ 150.00, ISBN 978-1-13-803746-5. Paperback: US$ 39.95, ISBN 978-1-13-803750-2. E-book: US$ 35.96, ISBN 978-1-31-517788-5
Mind's Eye and Embodied Weaving
This article examines the use of hue in textiles woven during the twentieth century in Isluga, a bilingual Aymara/Spanish-speaking community of herders of llamas, alpacas and sheep in the highlands of northern Chile. It pays tribute to the weaving skills of Natividad Castro Challapa and other weavers of her generation, born early in the twentieth century. Aniline dyes were already known to them but, in the course of their lives, they witnessed in…
South America's Golden Fleece
Animal Management and Stock Keeping
Animals as stock are a reproducible, living resource. Herbivores can be kept in herds or flocks in considerable numbers, sometimes ranging over extensive pasture grounds, while omnivorous animals tend to be kept in smaller numbers, typically closer to the homestead. For millennia, people in different parts of the world have learned to work with or “manage,” their animals' particular characteristics. Herd animals supply raw materials, food, and la…
The sounds and tastes of colours
With an emphasis on the concept of hue, this article examines colour qualities in ethnographic textiles from Isluga, in northern Chile, according to ideas concerning synaesthesia and chromaticism. It explores correspondences between light, colours, sound and taste against a historical trajectory in which industrially manufactured yarns bought in the marketplace replaced the dyeing of threads at the homestead. Attention is drawn to notions of satu…
Back Room' Pedagogies in University Museums in Britain
The stage-like "exhibitionary space," which members of the public visit, has received more scholarly scrutiny than the pedagogical and curatorial activities that take place in the back rooms of museums. This essay draws attention to the behind-the-scenes places in university museums as a pedagogic site where students learn through the close examination of artefacts. It addresses the social context of learning through the study of incomplete objec…
Social principles of Andean camelid pastoralism and archaeological interpretations
Comentario Penélope Dransart
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
The material culture of recusancy at Fetternear
The interdisciplinary project reported here combines art history, archaeology and the historical anthropology of religion. It consists of a study based on the material culture of recusancy from the mansion and medieval bishop’s palace at Fetternear, Aberdeenshire. After the Reformation, the property became the main seat of the Leslies of Balquhain, a recusant family. A stone plaque bearing the inscription IHS MRA, probably dating from 1691, place…
Concepts of Spiritual Nourishment in the Andes And Europe
This article explores visual imagery connected with the Christian rosary and its connotations of spiritual nourishment in European art and Andean ritual practices. Early eighteenth‐century religious art inspired by a vision received by Isidoro of Seville, a Capuchin friar, presented the Virgin Mary as the Divine Shepherdess with her flock of Christians, depicted as sheep with roses in their mouths. This imagery resonates in the flowering ceremony…
At the Mountains' Altar
Reviewed: At the Mountains’ Altar: Anthropology of Religion in an Andean Community. By Frank Salomon. Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2018. xvi + 235 pp. Hardback: US$ 150.00, ISBN 978-1-13-803746-5. Paperback: US$ 39.95, ISBN 978-1-13-803750-2. E-book: US$ 35.96, ISBN 978-1-31-517788-5
When the Winds Run with the Earth
This report uses a conceptual frame of "weather-worlding" to approach, in an atmospherically attuned manner, people's knowledge concerning the formation and transformation of weather conditions. It explores observed patterning in winds and rains as a product of more than a single generation's understanding. New ethnographic fieldwork findings from Isluga, northern Chile, are juxtaposed with information from notes made during previous periods of f…
Back Room' Pedagogies in University Museums in Britain
The stage-like "exhibitionary space," which members of the public visit, has received more scholarly scrutiny than the pedagogical and curatorial activities that take place in the back rooms of museums. This essay draws attention to the behind-the-scenes places in university museums as a pedagogic site where students learn through the close examination of artefacts. It addresses the social context of learning through the study of incomplete objec…
Concepts of Spiritual Nourishment in the Andes And Europe
This article explores visual imagery connected with the Christian rosary and its connotations of spiritual nourishment in European art and Andean ritual practices. Early eighteenth‐century religious art inspired by a vision received by Isidoro of Seville, a Capuchin friar, presented the Virgin Mary as the Divine Shepherdess with her flock of Christians, depicted as sheep with roses in their mouths. This imagery resonates in the flowering ceremony…
Concepts of Spiritual Nourishment in the Andes And Europe
This article explores visual imagery connected with the Christian rosary and its connotations of spiritual nourishment in European art and Andean ritual practices. Early eighteenth‐century religious art inspired by a vision received by Isidoro of Seville, a Capuchin friar, presented the Virgin Mary as the Divine Shepherdess with her flock of Christians, depicted as sheep with roses in their mouths. This imagery resonates in the flowering ceremony…
The material culture of recusancy at Fetternear
The interdisciplinary project reported here combines art history, archaeology and the historical anthropology of religion. It consists of a study based on the material culture of recusancy from the mansion and medieval bishop’s palace at Fetternear, Aberdeenshire. After the Reformation, the property became the main seat of the Leslies of Balquhain, a recusant family. A stone plaque bearing the inscription IHS MRA, probably dating from 1691, place…
Social principles of Andean camelid pastoralism and archaeological interpretations
Comentario Penélope Dransart
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Back Room' Pedagogies in University Museums in Britain
The stage-like "exhibitionary space," which members of the public visit, has received more scholarly scrutiny than the pedagogical and curatorial activities that take place in the back rooms of museums. This essay draws attention to the behind-the-scenes places in university museums as a pedagogic site where students learn through the close examination of artefacts. It addresses the social context of learning through the study of incomplete objec…
The sounds and tastes of colours
With an emphasis on the concept of hue, this article examines colour qualities in ethnographic textiles from Isluga, in northern Chile, according to ideas concerning synaesthesia and chromaticism. It explores correspondences between light, colours, sound and taste against a historical trajectory in which industrially manufactured yarns bought in the marketplace replaced the dyeing of threads at the homestead. Attention is drawn to notions of satu…
Animal Management and Stock Keeping
Animals as stock are a reproducible, living resource. Herbivores can be kept in herds or flocks in considerable numbers, sometimes ranging over extensive pasture grounds, while omnivorous animals tend to be kept in smaller numbers, typically closer to the homestead. For millennia, people in different parts of the world have learned to work with or “manage,” their animals' particular characteristics. Herd animals supply raw materials, food, and la…
At the Mountains' Altar
Reviewed: At the Mountains’ Altar: Anthropology of Religion in an Andean Community. By Frank Salomon. Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2018. xvi + 235 pp. Hardback: US$ 150.00, ISBN 978-1-13-803746-5. Paperback: US$ 39.95, ISBN 978-1-13-803750-2. E-book: US$ 35.96, ISBN 978-1-31-517788-5
Mind's Eye and Embodied Weaving
This article examines the use of hue in textiles woven during the twentieth century in Isluga, a bilingual Aymara/Spanish-speaking community of herders of llamas, alpacas and sheep in the highlands of northern Chile. It pays tribute to the weaving skills of Natividad Castro Challapa and other weavers of her generation, born early in the twentieth century. Aniline dyes were already known to them but, in the course of their lives, they witnessed in…
South America's Golden Fleece
A highland textile tradition from the far south of Peru during the period of Inka domination
A group of garments and textile fragments is identified in this article as belonging to a particular textile tradition, with characteristics indicating an affiliation to communities in the highlands of the South-Central Andes. Different categories of gender-specific garments are presented. The characteristics include an all-camelid construction, warp-patterned stripes in blocks of alternating colours, the use of a discontinuous warp and transpose…
Camelid Fleece and the Hidden Histories of Colors in the Andes
This article explores the significance of natural fleece colors that are often hidden by dyeing processes. The earliest domesticated alpacas and llamas probably resembled vicuñas and guanacos, their wild counterparts. By 3000 years ago, differences were beginning to emerge in the coats of alpacas and llamas. Dyers, spinners, and weavers learned to exploit these variations to complement and extend the range of possibilities offered through the use…
When the Winds Run with the Earth
This report uses a conceptual frame of "weather-worlding" to approach, in an atmospherically attuned manner, people's knowledge concerning the formation and transformation of weather conditions. It explores observed patterning in winds and rains as a product of more than a single generation's understanding. New ethnographic fieldwork findings from Isluga, northern Chile, are juxtaposed with information from notes made during previous periods of f…
Entrevista a Penelope Dransart
basndose en las asociaciones elementales con su entorno.Se interes por la manera en que sus vidas y sus creencias estn ntimamente ligadas al sol y a la noche, a los cerros, al ro y al mar.En el ltimo ao, cuando Penelope Dransart se encontraba escribiendo su tesis doctoral, su supervisor fue Howard Morphy, autor de Ancestral connections, art and an Aboriginal system of knowledge (1991), en el que examin cmo los artistas yolgnu, de Australia, codif…
Archaeology (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Latin American history and culture (5 works) · History (4 works) · Livestock (3 works) · Pastoralism (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)