scholarly journals Figurine Embodiment and Household Ritual in an Early Mixtec Village

2013 ◽  
Vol 99 (99-1) ◽  
pp. 7-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan J. Meissner ◽  
Katherine E. South ◽  
Andrew K. Balkansky
Keyword(s):  
Household Ritual

SO THAT THE BABY NOT BE FORMED LIKE A POTTERY RATTLE: AZTEC RATTLE FIGURINES AND HOUSEHOLD SOCIAL REPRODUCTIVE PRACTICES

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Overholtzer
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Work Relationships ◽  
Central Mexico ◽  
Healing Rituals ◽  
Household Ritual ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Bodily Representation

AbstractThis paper examines the materiality—or the mutually constitutive relationships between people and things—of Aztec rattle figurines in order to shed light on household ritual life in Postclassic central Mexico. By examining iconographic, archaeological, and ethnohistoric evidence, I argue that these figurines were actively used in household healing rituals concerning successful biological and social reproduction, comprised of the work, relationships, and attitudes that perpetuate human life. I then consider the physical experience of that ritual use by exploring the visual, tactile, auditory, and physiological aspects of these figurines. I contend that their visibility in workshops, markets, and the home presented an image of the female body that reinforced women's important roles in the production and reproduction of the household and society. Finally, the material qualities of these figurines reveal ancient discourses on the human body and experimentation with bodily representation in terms of scale, form, and material.

scholarly journals ‘IF A STORY CAN SO MASTER THE CHILDREN’S SOUL’: CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURAL PEDAGOGY, ORALITY AND POWER IN THE WRITINGS OF JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-142
Author(s):  
Chris L De Wet
Keyword(s):  
Practical Application ◽  
Level Of Abstraction ◽  
John Chrysostom ◽  
Household Ritual

The aim of this study is to give account of the dynamics between Christian scriptural pedagogy, orality and power in the writings of John Chrysostom. The study firstly examines Chrysostom’s views on the discourse of reading scripture, with reference to his In Acta apostolorum homilia 19. Thereafter, the study investigates the practical application of this discourse in the household ritual of reading scripture, here with reference to Chrysostom’s In Genesim sermo 6. Finally, on an even higher level of abstraction, the study looks at scriptural pedagogy in the education of children as seen in Chrysostom’s De inani gloria.

scholarly journals The Late Appearance of the Gṛhastha in the Vedic Domestic Ritual Codes as a Married Religious Professional

Gṛhastha ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 95-106
Author(s):  
Timothy Lubin
Keyword(s):  
The Core ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Household Ritual ◽  
Domestic Ritual ◽  
At Home

The Gṛhyasūtras (rulebooks of household ritual) might be expected to use the word gṛhastha, since it becomes the standard label for a married householder responsible for performing such rites. But in fact, when that role is mentioned, they employ older terms, suggesting that gṛhastha came into use only after the core works of the genre were composed, or that the ritualist authors were slow to accept it. The few occurrences we do find are in restricted contexts in supplementary chapters: in an appended list of penances (a penance for a gṛhastha vidyārthin, “a wisdom-seeker-who-stays-at-home,” Baudhāyana Gṛhyasūtra 4.12.1), and in two appendices that mention a gṛhastha alongside other individuals (including ascetics) worthy to be fed at rituals. This suggests that domestic ritual authorities in the era when the term was coming into use saw it as most applicable for depicting the married ritualist as a home-based religious professional comparable to an ascetic.

Political engagement in household ritual among the Maya of Yucatan

2017 ◽  
pp. 165-188
Author(s):  
Scott R. Hutson ◽  
Céline C. Lamb ◽  
David Medina Arona
Keyword(s):  
Political Engagement ◽  
Household Ritual

Mesoamerica—Aztec Figurines

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Overholtzer
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Regional Economies ◽  
Market System ◽  
Small Finds ◽  
Household Ritual

Aztec ceramic figurines are ubiquitous small finds in central Mexican domestic contexts. As expressive miniature representations of humans, animals, and temples that were distributed through an extensive market system, they provide a window into Aztec worldviews, regional economies, and the household realm. Yet they have received relatively scant archaeological attention, likely because of disciplinary bias toward the monumental and imperial. This chapter reviews this small but compelling corpus of research, identifying a series of six approaches that are loosely chronologically arranged: (1) defining Aztec figurines, (2) figurines as types and as representations of deities, (3) figurines in household ritual, (4) figurine production and exchange, (5) figurines and social identity, and (6) figurine materialities. This analysis also identifies challenges that remain, including a lack of published catalogues of figurine collections, and insufficient detailed contextual excavations of houses where figurines were produced and consumed.

scholarly journals Obsidian and Household Ritual at Xochitecatl-Cacaxtla

2014 ◽  
pp. 255-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mari Carmen Serra Puche ◽  
Jesús Carlos Lazcano Arce ◽  
Mónica Blanco García Méndez
Keyword(s):  
Household Ritual

scholarly journals Household Ritual and Communal Ritual

2019 ◽  
pp. 223-250
Author(s):  
John G. Douglass ◽  
William M. Graves ◽  
David T Unruh ◽  
Phillip O. Leckman ◽  
Richard Ciolek-Torello
Keyword(s):  
Household Ritual
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