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      Spatial Configuration in Tiwanaku Art: A Review of Stone Carved Imagery and Staff Gods Translated title: Configuración Espacial en el Arte Tiwanaku: Una Revisión de la Imaginería Tallada en Piedra y Los Dioses de Báculos

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          This article highlights the scenic potential of Tiwanaku stone carved iconography (South-Central Andes, ca. AD 600-1000). It argues that aspects of Tiwanaku carved imagery may be approached as potential scenes of ritual action. The paper develops by taking into account the spatial configuration of the imagery that surrounds a specific set of anthropomorphs referred to as Staff Gods. An examination of Staff God imagery reveals how some elements in the iconography indicate that these personages may be human representations engaged in ritual action rather than representations of divine figures, i. e., cases of Andean divine anthropomorphism. Comparisons with Moche and Recuay scenic configurations also give further meaning to such a hypothesis.

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          Este trabajo destaca el potencial escénico de la iconografía tallada en piedra en Tiwanaku (Andes centro-sur, ca. 600-1000 DC). El artículo propone una manera en la que se pueden abordar las imágenes talladas en piedra de Tiwanaku como posibles escenas de acción ritual. Además, muestra la configuración espacial de la iconografía que va asociada a un tipo de personajes referidos como "dioses de báculos". El análisis de ciertos aspectos de estos personajes indica que podrían ser representaciones de individuos involucrados en acción ritual en lugar de divinidades (como casos de antropomorfismo divino). La hipótesis según la cual se representaban en Tiwanaku escenas de acción ritual se apoya también en comparaciones con iconografías y configuraciones escénicas Moche y Recuay.

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                bmchap
                Boletín del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino
                Bol. Mus. Chil. Arte Precolomb.
                Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino (Santiago, , Chile )
                0718-6894
                2014
                : 19
                : 2
                : 9-28
                Affiliations
                [01] Québec orgnameMusées de la civilisation Canada mviaucourville@ 123456mcq.org
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                S0718-68942014000200002 S0718-6894(14)01900200002
                10.4067/S0718-68942014000200002
                d2a0bc16-a9ad-41fb-840f-cfc875a95b40

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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                : July 2014
                : March 2012
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                stone sculpture,Andes,antropomorfismo,dioses de báculos,escena,arte precolombino,escultura de piedra,Tiwanaku,anthropomorphism,Staff God,scene,pre-Columbian art

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