The Meaning within Moche Masks

Edward Swenson
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In this chapter, the author examines the remains of broken ceramic masks recovered in feasting middens at the Moche ceremonial center of Huaca Colorada (AD 650–900) in the southern Jequetepeque Valley of the North Coast of Peru. One objective of the chapter is to demonstrate that Moche masking traditions varied in terms of the rites and social context in which they were employed. The ceramic masks depicting Moche powerful beings became deeply meaningful and engines of semiosis in their own right within specific frames of ritual action. Those masks shed light on Moche theories of being and the workings of the world (i.e., “ontology”). Their iconography suggests they were worn by officiants who reenacted heroic myths and stories of creation in rites that promoted agricultural bounty, life, and fertility.
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在本章中,作者研究了在秘鲁北海岸的杰克特佩克山谷南部的瓦卡科罗拉多莫切仪式中心(公元650-900年)的宴会中发现的破碎陶瓷面具的残骸。本章的目的之一是证明莫切人的面具传统在使用仪式和社会背景方面有所不同。描绘莫切人强大生物的陶瓷面具在特定的仪式活动框架内成为了深刻的意义和符号学的引擎。这些面具揭示了莫切人关于存在和世界运行的理论(即“本体论”)。它们的肖像表明,在促进农业丰收、生命和生育的仪式上,司仪们穿着它们,重现英雄神话和创造故事。
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