Mamasara o saramama, the mother of corn: Reflections on the agency of magical-religious agricultural objects in ancient Peru
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https://doi.org/10.15381/ishra.n9.22861Keywords:
Agency, animated objects, wak’a, cobs, conopaAbstract
The study of agency is a starting point to understand the nature of the wak’a around relational ontologies in the Andes. Incorporating unpublished information from non-Western worldviews available in documents from the 16th-17th centuries and in ethnographic data, it can be understood how magical-religious agricultural objects (cobs and conopa not previously analyzed) came to possess social identities and to become agents during the agricultural cycle. People communicated with these animated objects through rituals that involved shared drinking, singing, and dancing. The information provided on these pages is relevant to archaeological research, helping to understand the practices that likely shaped the archaeological record and the processes of change.
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