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Ceramics of Ancient America : Multidisciplinary Approaches /
This edited volume analyzes ceramics specifically from ancient America to add new layers to our understanding by emphasizing new perspectives and a multidisciplinary approach from the fields of archaeology, art history, and anthropology. This volume will help students and scholars alike better under...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Dean Arnold, Yumi Park Huntington, Johanna Minich
- Revealing natural and supernatural concepts through formal analysis
- Ceramic wares and water spirits: identifying religious sodalities in the lower Mississippi Valley / David H. Dye
- Naturalism and "contrapposto" in the ceramics of ancient Ecuador: ideology and the humanistic trend in ancient American art / James Farmer
- Investigating identity and social narrative through iconographic analysis and intertextuality
- Exploring the technology and meaning behind early ceramic figurines from the Casma Valley, Peru / Shelia Pozorski & Thomas Pozorski
- Emblems of cultural identity in early Andean art: engraved head motifs on Cupisnique ceramics / Yumi Park Huntington
- Bodies in both worlds: a preliminary comparison of human and supernatural dress in Moche art / Sarahh E.H. Scher
- Intertextuality in classic Maya ceramic art and writing: the interplay of myth and history on the Regal Rabbit Vase / Michael D. Carrasco & Robert F. Wald
- Symmetry patterns and their social dimensions
- Symmetry analysis of step fret patterns on ceramics and other media from Mesoamerica and the American Southwest: continuities and changes in a shared pattern system / Dorothy K. Washburn
- The importance of symmetry in defining Caddo relationships: a synthesis of perspective / Johanna Minich and Jeff Price
- Charting innovation through diachronic studies
- "Ceramic sets" in Maya and Toltec ceramics: the search for innovation and competition in ancient Mesoamerican pottery system / George J. Bey III
- A diachronic perspective on the Prehispanic ceramic tradition of the Valley of Oaxaca / Gary M. Feinman
- Product continuity and change in persistent household ceramic production: the Tarascan case / Amy J. Hirshman.