Cut-Paper Figures and Nahua Conceptions of the Divine
Art and Revelation in Pantheistic Religion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8240802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan R Sandstrom (Purdue University Fort Wayne, corresponding author), Pamela Effrein Sandstrom (0000-0002-1462-6931, Purdue University Fort Wayne) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Pages | 15-62 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Estudios de cultura náhuatl (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0071-1675 • E-ISSN: 3061-8002 |
| Publisher | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (PUBLISHER • MX) |
| DOI | 10.22201/iih.30618002e.2022.64.78106 |
| OpenAlex | W7118706155 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
Nahuas of the Huasteca Veracruzana, along with their Otomí (Ñähñu) and Tepehua (Hamasipiní) neighbors, evoke sacred spirit entities through the medium of cut-paper figures, which they arrange on altars and make the subject of elaborate ritual offerings, including the blood of chickens and turkeys. The cut-paper figures embody forces in the cosmos that are critically important for human well-being and reveal the pantheistic basis of Nahua religion and its foundations in ontological monism. Analysis of the Nahua system of semasiography as it is expressed in the ritual paper complex provides a new basis for understanding ancient and contemporary ritual practice, artistic production, and the wider Mesoamerican graphic communication system
Anthropology of religion · Ethnography · Interrogation · Revelation · Subject (documents · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · Latin American history and culture · Psychedelics and Drug Studies
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Toward a theory of ritual economy
Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems
Pueblos de la Sierra madre
Women's Ritual in Formative Oaxaca
Biolatry
The pilgrimage to the living mountains
Facing Objects
Depicting the Mesoamerican Spirit World
Aztec Philosophy
Thinking Religion Through Things
Their way of memorizing
The Ancient Maya Self
Aztec Religion and Art of Writing
Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism
On the ontological scheme of Beyond nature and culture
Life as a process of making in the Mixe Highlands (Oaxaca,Mexico)
Life Form and Form of Life within an Agentive Configuration
Co-activity in Mesoamerica and in the Andes
Rejoinder to Descola's 'Biolatry
A Naturalist Abroad in the Museum of Ontology
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |