Voir une chenille, dessiner un serpent à plumes. Une relecture analogique de l’hybridité et des êtres imaginaires en Mésoamérique préhispanique
This contribution suggests to look at the figure of Quetzalcoatl – in the Teotihuacan iconography as in the later Aztec one – by analyzing imaginary beings and the representations of hybrids in Mesoamerica as an analogical transcription of real beings according to the principles of formal analogy. A...
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| Language: | English |
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Société des américanistes
2014-09-01
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| Series: | Journal de la Société des Américanistes |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/13673 |
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| Summary: | This contribution suggests to look at the figure of Quetzalcoatl – in the Teotihuacan iconography as in the later Aztec one – by analyzing imaginary beings and the representations of hybrids in Mesoamerica as an analogical transcription of real beings according to the principles of formal analogy. After going through a review of the perception processes entering in the way the names of species are built in natural languages, we apply these processes to iconographical materials that combines distinct beings – or parts of beings –, this enables us to interpret their occurrences on feather headdresses or as mythological figures. |
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| ISSN: | 0037-9174 1957-7842 |