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Lau, George 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0089-3625
(2012)
Visualising alterity: scalar views of predation in ancient Peru.
World Art, 2 (1).
pp. 119-134.
ISSN 2150-0894
Abstract
This visual essay explores material expressions of otherness, or alterity, in the ancient Andes. It first provides a discussion about key points about alterity, especially different kinds of alterity seen ethnographically. It then turns to different strands of archaeological evidence focused on an alterity centred on ancient conflict and predation. The available record informs at different scales, but manifests a strong concern for the Other. Visual forms of evidence, it is argued, provide key ways to observe how ancient others theorised their others. The record indicates that one of the chief points about alterity is that the ‘outside’ in the Other, whether thing or person, is something desirable and useful; it can also be alienated and captured.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Centres > Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Art History and World Art Studies |
| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jan 2015 16:02 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Aug 2023 11:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/51044 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/21500894.2012.675886 |
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