期刊
ANTIQUITY
卷 95, 期 384, 页码 1405-1425出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2021.126
关键词
Atacama Desert coast; Chile; Chinchorro; hunter-gatherer-fishers; embodiment; funerary art; mortuary ritual
资金
- FONDECYT [3180593]
- ANID Doctorate Grant [21061130]
Funerary art using the body as its main material component expresses responses to death and offers insight into relationships between the living and the dead. A study of Chinchorro hunter-gatherer-fisher societies along the Atacama Desert coast shows changes in post-mortem body transformation practices, suggesting that manipulation was a meaningful form of social embodiment designed to construct a collective identity.
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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