Painting the skin : pigments on bodies and codices in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica /

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"The book brings together exciting research on painted skins--human, animal, and vegetal--in Mesoamerica. It offers physicochemical analysis and interdisciplinary understandings of the materiality, uses, and cultural meanings of the colors applied on a multitude of skins, including bodies, codi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dupey García, Elodie (Editor ), Vázquez de Agredos Pascual, M. Luisa (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2018]
Temas:
To 1500
Cosmetics > Mexico > History > To 1500.
Indians of Mexico > Social life and customs.
Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian)
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mexican > History > To 1500.
Manuscrits mexicains précolombiens.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Cosmetics
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mexican
Indians of Mexico > Social life and customs
Mexico
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword: Skin-deep / Stephen Houston
  • Introduction: Colors and the skin in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica / Élodie Dupey García and María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual
  • Part I. Coloring alive and dead bodies : materiality and significance of Mesoamerican corporal painting. Painting the skin in ancient Mesoamerica / María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual
  • Materiality and meaning of medicinal body colors in Teotihuacan / María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual [and others]
  • Painting the dead in the northern Maya lowlands / Vera Tiesler, Kadwin Pérez López, and Patricia Quintana Owen
  • Body colors and aromatics in Maya funerary rites / María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual [and others]
  • Body color and body adornment at Chichén Itzá / Virginia E. Miller
  • The yellow women : naked skin, everyday cosmetics, and ritual body painting in postclassic Nahua society / Élodie Dupey García
  • The colors of the desert : ritual and aesthetic uses of pigments and colorants by the Guachichil of northern Mexico / Olivia Kindl
  • Part II. Illuminating animal and vegetal skins : chromatic palettes and meaning in pre-Columbian codices
  • Coloring materials, technological practices, and painting traditions : cultural and historical implications of nondestructive chemical analyses of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican codices / Davide Domenici [and others]
  • The study of color in the Colombino Codex : an experimental approach / Tatiana Falcón
  • Preliminary investigation on the Codex Borbonicus : macroscopic examination and coloring materials characterization / Fabien Pottier [and others]
  • Convergence and difference in the Borgia Group chromatic palettes / Élodie Dupey García and María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual
  • Making and using colors in the manufacture of Nahua codices : aesthetic standards, symbolic purposes / Élodie Dupey García
  • Skin of walls : plaster practices across Maya books, buildings, and people / Franco D. Rossi
  • Epilogue: The painted skin, a cultural and sensorial legacy / María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual and Élodie Dupey García.

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