Animating Idolatry
Making Ancestral Kin and Personhood in Ancient Peru
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3544705 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George Lau (0000-0002-0089-3625, University of East Anglia, corresponding author), George F Lau |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 287 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel12050287 |
| OpenAlex | W3152677378 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 47 |
Historical and archaeological records help shed light on the production, ritual practices, and personhood of cult objects characterizing the central Peruvian highlands after ca. AD 200. Colonial accounts indicate that descendant groups made and venerated stone images of esteemed forebears as part of small-scale local funerary cults. Prayers and supplications help illuminate how different artifact forms were seen as honored family members (forebears, elders, parents, siblings). Archaeology, meanwhile, shows the close associations between carved monoliths, tomb repositories, and restricted cult spaces. The converging lines of evidence are consistent with the hypothesis that production of stone images was the purview of family/lineage groups. As the cynosures of cult activity and devotion, the physical forms of ancestor effigies enabled continued physical engagements, which vitalized both the idol and descendant group
Ancestor · Ancient history · Archaeology · Artifact (error · Biology · Colonialism · Cult · Descendant · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Homo erectus · Idolatry · Lineage (genetic · Maya · Personhood · Pleistocene · Sociology · Theology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Latin American history and culture · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |