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Landscape and power in ancient Mesoamerica /
"From the early cities in the second millennium B.C. to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan on the eve of the Spanish conquest, ancient Mesoamericans created landscapes full of meaning and power in the center of their urban spaces. The sixteenth-century description of Tenochtitlan by Bernal Diaz...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boulder, Colo. :
Westview Press,
[2001]
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| Colección: | Anthropology online.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The cultural poetics of power and space in Ancient Mesoameria / Kathryn Reese-Taylor and Rex Koontz
- What the heck's Coatépec? The formative roots of an enduring mythology / Linda Schele and Julia Guernsey Kappelman
- Procession rituals and shrine sites: the politics of sacred space in the late formative valley of Oaxaca / Heather S. Orr
- Sacred geography at Izapa and the performance of rulership / Julia Guernsey Kappelman
- Dance performances at Quiriguá / Matthew G. Looper
- The poetics of power and knowledge at La Venta / Carolyn E. Tate
- Merging myth and politics: the three temple complex at Teotihuacan / Annabeth Headrick
- A model for late classic community structure at Copán, Honduras / Jeffrey A. Stomper
- The form of power: the architectural meaning of building A of El Tajín / Patricia Joan Sarro
- Political rhetoric and the unification of natural geography, cosmic space, and gender spheres / Linnea Wren, Kaylee Spencer, and Krysta Hochstetler
- Mountain of heaven, mountain of earth: the great pyramid of Cholula as sacred landscape / Geoffrey G. McCafferty
- A sense of place at Chichén Itzá / Cynthia Kristan-Graham.