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Comment by Ander Gondra on July 15, 2011 at 10:54am

PHOTO-ESSAY: Funerary Folk art in Ecuador (Photographer Birte Pedersen)

FOTO-ENSAYO: Arte Funerario Popular de Ecuador (Fotografa Birte Pedersen)

Con motivo de la convocatoria del especial “Relaciones entre imagen y muerte” de la Revista Sans Soleil, la fotógrafa Birte Pedersen nos presentará una nueva entrega cada mes sobre su trabajo en relación al arte funerario popular de Ecuador.

El foto-ensayo estará compuesto por doce entregas temáticas, con fotografías seleccionadas de una colección de actualmente tres mil fotos, recopiladas en cien cementerios de todo Ecuador, en el transcurso de los últimos quince años.

Os invitamos a seguir mensualmente esta interesante iniciativa. Igualmente, agradeceríamos toda labor de difusión de la misma, para que todas las personas interesadas puedan conocerla.

Visit the website:
http://birtepedersen.revista-sanssoleil.com/

Comment by Ander Gondra on May 15, 2011 at 11:36pm

REVISTA SANS SOLEIL JOURNAL

www.revista-sanssoleil.com

Call For Papers. 

Reception open to collaborations (articles, audiovisual essays) for the forthcoming issue up to June 1, 2012

RELATIONS BETWEEN IMAGE AND DEATH

 Anachronism, presence, absence

 

The relationship between image and death have remote origins, connected to the beginning of the firsts human ritual practices. These images reveal a presence that challenges the linearity of time, creating complex folds and ruptures that return to our present an anachronistic reality. For example, the skulls of Tell Ramad (7000 BC) demonstrate an impulse, saving the apparent distance, very similar to post-mortem photograph of the late nineteenth century: introduce the absence of a deceased through an image. One could trace similar examples as the use of death masks in ancient Rome, the wax votive in the Renaissance, in the memento mori from Baroque period, the photographs accompanying the tombstones in the cemeteries nowadays…

This special number aims to analyze these issues and many others that can demonstrate a relationship as complex and interesting as the binomial image-death.

 

Download pdf with all the information

ALL THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE JOURNAL ON THE WEB

Comment by Agustin Diz on September 13, 2010 at 4:22pm

Charisma, this is very helpful many thanks...if you dont mind I'll add your suggestions to the group's reading list.

Comment by Charisma A. Thomson on September 10, 2010 at 10:10pm

Here are a few to get you going:

Harris, O. 1982. "The dead and the deivls among the Bolivian Laymi." In, Death and the Regenration of Life (eds) M. Bloch & J. Parry. Cambridge: Univ. Press.

Gose, P. "Sacrifice and the Commodity Form in the Andes," Man, New Series, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Jun., 1986), 296-310.

Gose, P. 1994. Deathly Waters and Hungry Mountains: Agrarian Ritual and Class Formation in an Andean Town. Univ. of Toronto Press

Allen, C. J. 2002. The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community. Smithsonian Books.

Salomon, F. "Unethical Ethnohistory: On Peruvian Peasant Historiography and the Ideas of Autocthony," Ethnohistory 49:3 (Summer 2002).

Millaire, J.F. "The Manipulation of Human remains in Moche Society: delayed Burials, Grave Reopening, and Secondary Offerings of Human Bones on the Peruvian North Coast," Latin American Antiquity, Vol. 15 No. 4 (Dec., 2004), pp. 371-388

Paerregaard, K. 1987 "Death Rituals and Symbols in the Andes. Folk 29: 23-42

Nash, J. 1979. We eat the mines and the mines eat us. New York: Columbia Univ. Press

Hopefully these are helpful to you. If you would like me to dig up some more from the catacombs of my brain please let me know. Cheers.

Charisma

Comment by Agustin Diz on September 10, 2010 at 10:31am

Thanks Charisma!! Both current or historical would be great. I mainly interested in the Southern Andes, particularly Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Peru, but anything else would also be interesting!

Comment by Charisma A. Thomson on September 9, 2010 at 8:17pm

Also, was there an Andean region or society that you were more interested in?

Comment by Charisma A. Thomson on September 9, 2010 at 7:11pm

Hola Agustin,
I have a few good references for you. Would you prefer those which have a focus on current funerary/death rites, a historical approach, or both? Cheers.

Charisma

Comment by Agustin Diz on September 9, 2010 at 9:43am

Welcome Haris!

Out of curiosity, does any one have any references on ethnographies of death/ death rites in the Andes? Also any ethnographies on La Santa Muerte would be very interesting too...

many thanks!

Comment by Haris Agic on September 9, 2010 at 8:14am

Hi people!

Comment by Emily on September 5, 2010 at 2:07pm

i'm looking to set up a multi-arts based pop-up gallery/shop in london on the theme of death- anybody interested in contributing/collaborating please get in touch either on here on on emilyhannahwest@gmail.com. thanks.

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