Animal Matter - Ritual, Place, and Sovereignty At the Moon Pyramid of Teotihuacan

Animal Matter uses primary excavation, zooarchaeological, and isotope data from the study of nearly 200 jaguars, pumas, wolves, rattlesnakes, and golden eagles that were sacrificed or offered to the Moon Pyramid of Teotihuacan, 1-550 AD, to take readers on a journey through the complex entanglements of ritual performances that were part of the process of sovereignty for this ancient city.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• 1. Ritualization of Animal Matter


• 2. Placemaking: Teotihuacan's Altepetl


• 3. Animal Politics


• 4. The Zooarchaeological Data


• 5. Isotope Evidence of Captivity


• 6. Animal Biographies


• 7. Animals Inhabiting the Altepetl


• 8. Epilogue, A Thick Description of Burial 6


• Bibliography


• Appendix: Feathered Serpent Pyramid Faunal Table

About the author

Nawa Sugiyama is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside.

Summary

Animal Matter uses primary excavation, zooarchaeological, and isotope data from the study of nearly 200 jaguars, pumas, wolves, rattlesnakes, and golden eagles that were sacrificed or offered to the Moon Pyramid of Teotihuacan, 1-550 AD, to take readers on a journey through the complex entanglements of ritual performances that were part of the process of sovereignty for this ancient city.

Product details

• Authors: Sugiyama, Nawa Sugiyama, Nawa (Assistant Professor of Anthropolog Sugiyama
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2024
• EAN: 9780197653395
• ISBN: 978-0-19-765339-5
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: Oxford Studies in the Archaeology of Ancient States
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Latin America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology by period / region, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, History of the Americas: pre-Columbian period, HISTORY / Latin America / Pre-Columbian Era