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Author Weismantel, Mary J., author.

Title Playing with things : engaging the Moche sex pots / Mary Weismantel
Published Austin : University of Texas Press : University of Texas Press, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 246 pages) : illustrations, map
Series William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere
William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere.
Contents Modern Moche -- Pots play jokes -- Pots make babies -- Pots give power -- Pots hold water -- Epilogue: acolonial things
Summary "Hundreds of dazzlingly beautiful, sexually explicit ceramic sculptures made by indigenous Moche artists in Peru over a thousand years ago constitute a large and important corpus of non-western art about sex. Nevertheless, the Moche sex pots remain largely unknown except to regional specialists, subject to a dual marginalization. In Pre-Columbian studies, sexuality remains marginalized and understudied; in sexuality studies, non-western art is largely absent, and "classical" Greece and Rome appear as modernity's only Other. This study of the Moche sex pots fills these lacunae from a new materialist perspective. Breaking with the iconographic tradition that has long dominated Pre-Columbian studies, this book does not consider the sex pots as representations of human and nonhuman bodies, but as actual ceramic bodies that interact with fleshly bodies, now and in the ancient past"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-235) and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Mochica pottery -- Peru
Erotic pottery -- Peru
Mochica pottery -- Peru -- Themes, motives
Mochica Indians -- Peru
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
Erotic pottery
Mochica Indians
Mochica pottery
Mochica pottery -- Themes, motives
Peru
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781477323229
1477323228