The embodied performance and affective presence of Iroquoian animal effigy pipes

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ID3919205
AuthorsChristopher Watts (0000-0003-0348-9713, University of Waterloo), Christopher M Watts (0000-0002-8466-8811, University of Waterloo, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume52
Issue3
Pages429-448
Publication date2020-05-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00438243.2021.1886980
OpenAlexW3135902318
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited51

In this paper, I explore notions of performance and presence as ways to characterize Iroquoian animal effigy pipes beyond the purview of representational thought. In crafting such devices, enhancing them with animal parts, and establishing corporeal connections with animal ondaki through the act of smoking, it is argued that animal others were effectively re-represented or revealed to pipe smokers. Through an analysis of animal effigy pipes housed at the Royal Ontario Museum, and with evidence marshalled from the archaeological record and early documentary sources such as the Jesuit Relations, it is suggested that the meaning of these pipes obtained through their use rather than aesthetic appeal, and that much of this meaning turned on immanence and world making rather than representation or mediation

Aesthetics · Appeal · Art · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Mediation · Representation (politics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory

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