Relational bodies: affordances, substances and embodiment in Chinchorro funerary practices c. 7000-3250 BP
ANTIQUITY(2021)
摘要
Funerary art has the body as its main material component, expresses responses to death and offers insight into relationships between the living and the dead. Chinchorro hunter-gatherer-fisher societies along the Atacama Desert coast provide a key example of such connections, having developed one of the world's oldest-known systems of post-mortem body transformation (c. 7000-3250 BP). A study of 162 modified Chinchorro bodies identifies diachronic changes in these practices, including a decrease in internal stuffing-adding invisible contents that created corporeal volume-and an increase in external body treatment that created visible features. The authors propose that such manipulation was a meaningful form of social embodiment designed to construct a collective identity.
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Atacama Desert coast, Chile, Chinchorro, hunter-gatherer-fishers, embodiment, funerary art, mortuary ritual
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