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Anthropomorphic imagery in the Mesoamerican highlands : gods, ancestors, and human beings /
"'Mexican, North American, and European researchers explore the meanings and functions of two-and three-dimensional human representations in pre-Columbian communities of Mexican highlands. They demonstrate the potential of anthropomorphic imagery to elucidate personhood, conceptions of the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Louisville, Colorado :
University Press of Colorado,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Gods, ancestors, and human beings / Brigitte Faugère and Christopher Beekman
- Pretty face and naked body in context: meanings and uses of Chupícuaro figurines (Guanajuato) during the Late Formative / Brigitte Faugère
- Unseating the shaman: narrative performance and co-essences in the hollow figures of western Mexico / Christopher Beekman
- Gender and paired ceramic figures in Late Formative west Mexico / Melissa Logan
- Sexuality and regeneration in the underworld: earth sculptures in the Cueva del Rey Kong-Oy, Sierra Mixe, Oaxaca / Marcus Winter
- Costumes and puppets among Cholula's early classic figurines and the formation of social worlds / Gabriela Uruñuela and Patricia Plunket
- Unmasking Tlaloc: the iconography, symbolism, and ideological development of the Teotihuacan Rain God / Andrew Turner
- The nature of the old god of Teotihuacan: why would the old god be represented by an elderly human body? / Claire Billard
- Epiclassic figurines of Xochitecatl, Tlaxcala, Mexico: hypotheses on their social lives and their ideological relevance / Juliette Testard and Mari Carmen Serra Puche
- All the Earth is a grave: ancestors and symbolic burials at Tula / Cynthia Kristan-Graham
- Representing the human body in Postclassic central Mexico: a study of proportions and their evolution in the Aztec pictorial tradition / Sylvie Peperstraete
- The notion of substitution in Aztec kingship / Danièle Dehouve.