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Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots de Mary Weismantel

Playing with Things: Engaging the Moche Sex Pots

Autor Mary Weismantel
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 aug 2021

Descoperim în Playing with Things o regândire radicală a metodologiei arheologice aplicate obiectelor precolumbiene. Mary Weismantel organizează materialul nu ca pe un catalog static de artefacte, ci ca pe o explorare a „corpurilor ceramice” active, structurând volumul în jurul interacțiunilor dintre obiect și utilizator. După o introducere teoretică necesară despre modernitatea culturii Moche, capitolele urmăresc progresiv funcțiile vitale ale acestor vase: capacitatea lor de a genera umor (Pots Play Jokes), rolul în simbolică procreării (Pots Make Babies), medierea puterii politice și spirituale (Pots Give Power) și, în final, utilitatea lor fizică de recipiente (Pots Hold Water).

Remarcăm modul în care autoarea integrează teoria queer și studiile indigene pentru a decoloniza interpretarea iconografiei sexuale, adesea marginalizată sau eronat înțeleasă în studiile anterioare. Această abordare completează perspectiva oferită de Sex, Metaphor, and Ideology in Moche Pottery of Ancient Peru, adăugând o dimensiune senzorială și materialistă acolo unde Andrew Turner se concentrează precumpănitor pe structurile ideologice și metaforice. În comparație cu Archaeologies of Sexuality, lucrarea de față restrânge focusul geografic pentru a aprofunda specificul cultural andin, oferind o analiză mult mai tactilă a pieselor.

Poziționată în contextul operei autoarei, Playing with Things continuă interesul pentru spațiile și obiectele cotidiene încărcate de semnificații sociale profunde, temă centrală și în Kitchenspace. Dacă în Cholas and Pishtacos Weismantel analiza personaje provocate din cultura populară sud-americană, aici ea aplică aceeași rigoare antropologică asupra culturii materiale antice, transformând vasele Moche din simple obiecte de muzeu în entități vibrante care „vorbesc” despre temporalități inumane și relații trupești.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781477323205
ISBN-10: 1477323201
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 70 b&w photos
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press

De ce să citești această carte

Această lucrare este esențială pentru cercetătorii în arheologie și istoria artei care doresc să depășească analizele iconografice tradiționale. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care sexualitatea și materialitatea se intersectează în cosmologia Moche, totul într-un format academic riguros, dar accesibil, susținut de o bogată ilustrație alb-negru. Este un model de aplicare a teoriei critice pe artefacte antice.

Despre autor

Mary Weismantel este o cercetătoare recunoscută în domeniul antropologiei și studiilor latino-americane, premiată pentru capacitatea sa de a analiza cultura materială și socială a regiunii andine. Opera sa explorează frecvent intersecția dintre gen, rasă și spațiul domestic, lucrări precum Kitchenspace și Cholas and Pishtacos (premiată de American Ethnological Society) stabilind-o ca o voce importantă în decolonizarea studiilor umaniste. Prin Playing with Things, ea își extinde expertiza către arheologia sexualității, aducând o perspectivă critică asupra modului în care obiectele indigene sunt interpretate în mediul academic occidental.

Descriere scurtă

Winner, Association for Latin American Art-Arvey Foundation Book Award, 2022
More than a thousand years ago on the north coast of Peru, Indigenous Moche artists created a large and significant corpus of sexually explicit ceramic works of art. They depicted a diversity of sex organs and sex acts, and an array of solitary and interconnected human and nonhuman bodies. To the modern eye, these Moche “sex pots,” as Mary Weismantel calls them, are lively and provocative but also enigmatic creations whose import to their original owners seems impossible to grasp.
In Playing with Things, Weismantel shows that there is much to be learned from these ancient artifacts, not merely as inert objects from a long-dead past but as vibrant Indigenous things, alive in their own inhuman temporality. From a new materialist perspective, she fills the gaps left by other analyses of the sex pots in pre-Columbian studies, where sexuality remains marginalized, and in sexuality studies, where non-Western art is largely absent. Taking a decolonial approach toward an archaeology of sexuality and breaking with long-dominant iconographic traditions, this book explores how the pots "play jokes," "make babies," "give power," and "hold water,” considering the sex pots as actual ceramic bodies that interact with fleshly bodies, now and in the ancient past. A beautifully written study that will be welcomed by students as well as specialists, Playing with Things is a model for archaeological and art historical engagement with the liberating power of queer theory and Indigenous studies.

Notă biografică

Mary Weismantel is a professor of anthropology at Northwestern University, where she has previously served as director of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and as an adjunct curator at the Field Museum of Natural History. She received a PhD in anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is the author of two books of ethnographic research in South America, Cholas and Pishtacos: Tales of Race and Sex in the Andes and Food, Gender and Poverty in the Ecuadorian Andes.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations
Note to the Reader
Introduction: The Moche Sex Pots
1. Modern Moche
2. Pots Play Jokes
3. Pots Make Babies
4. Pots Give Power
5. Pots Hold Water
Epilogue: Acolonial Things
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Recenzii

What this book does very well is envision how these ceramic vessels were a part of people’s lives—their materiality and lively interaction with human bodies, as well as their social connections to the living and the dead that express notions of how life is generated, nurtured, and ensured...[Playing with Things provides] insights into how scholars can approach with fresh eyes subjects that we think we know.

Refereshing...This is an academic work – thoroughly researched, footnoted, and at times quite theoretical – but Weismantel’s style remains accessible, easy to understand, and rarely mired down in jargon.

Weismantel draws from a vast corpus of theory and ethnographic literature to support her arguments but does not dwell on usual concerns of Moche scholars, including ceramic chronology or regional and temporal variation within the Moche sphere...she offers fresh ideas and innovative approaches. The text is witty, engaging, and insightful and will be of interest within and beyond the broader field of anthropology. This book also demonstrates the potential of a fully integrated four-field anthropology in which specialists have the courage and inquisitiveness to venture past the traditional territorial boundaries of the subdisciplines.

Playing with Things provides groundbreaking interpretations of the Moche sex pots and presents frameworks important for material and visual culture studies.

[Playing with Things] is written in smart, accessible prose that clearly conveys [Weismantel's] nuanced and innovative readings of what is arguably some of the most complex material evidence from the pre-Columbian world...The title Playing with Things perfectly encapsulates the author’s novel and at times nearly whimsical approach to the objects—the freshness of interpreting the bottles by picking them up, smelling them, or listening to them never distracts from Weismantel’s deep understanding of the bottles and especially their iconography...Playing with Things should be read by anyone working on the Indigenous cultures of the New World, past or present, and by scholars within Indigenous Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Latin American Studies. It will upend, in the most enjoyable way, many long-held notions about what can be learned from unprovenienced art and hopefully inspire a much deeper appreciation for the potential of meticulous scholarly study to recover culturally meaningful information about the intricate worlds of Indigenous sexualities.

Weismantel's ethnographic training leads to rich interpretations about these vessels but also about ourselves. These sex pots are archaeological artifacts, but Weismantel approaches them from a place where they were and continue to be vibrant, once part of ancient social lives and still evoking strong reactions from museum visitors...Weismantel proposes a fresh, new, and innovative take on the Moche sex pots that have been of interest for decades. Her active engagement with scholarship on queer theory, materiality, and indigenous worldviews reinvigorates interpretations about the life-giving qualities of the sex pots as functional vessels and sacred instantiations of circulating fluids.

Profoundly insightful and an utter delight to read…[Weismantel's]  brilliantly effective, inquisitive practice invites readers to play with her as she manipulates the pots, and in this tactile, whole-bodied experience, the vessels cease to be static artifacts and come to life as the socially engaged objects they are.

Descriere

Challenging common approaches to archaeology and sexuality studies, this book explores, in part by physically interacting with the artifacts, how Moche ceramics reveal ancient Indigenous ways of thinking about and experiencing sex.