Iconicity of the Uto-Aztecans : snake anthropomorphy in the Great Basin, the American Southwest, and Mesoamerica

Iconicity of the Uto-Aztecans : snake anthropomorphy in the Great Basin, the American Southwest, and Mesoamerica /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mukhopadhyay, Tirtha Prasad (Author), Garfinkel, Alan P. (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2023.
Subjects:
Uto-Aztecan Indians > Religion.
Serpent worship.
Idols and images.
Anthropomorphism > Religious aspects.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed; 325 uses per year)
Table of Contents:
  • Inmigrations of the first Uto-Aztecans
  • The Uto-Aztecan homeland
  • The primordial snake religion
  • How does prehistoric iconicity emerge and function?
  • Anthropomorphism of the Uto-Aztecans, animism, and animalism
  • Temporal horizons of Uto-Aztecan iconography
  • Hunting tool iconography
  • The Coso Anthropomorph and its untold secrets and mysteries
  • The circular snake of time
  • Outlier indices in Aztec icons
  • Iconicity of Tlaloc in the rain praying cultures of del Bajio
  • The binding liberating chain of Chupicuaro pottery
  • Mother earth snakes.

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