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Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos : Middle Preclassic Lowland Maya Figurines, Ritual, and Time /

"Exploring the sociocultural significance of approximately three hundred Middle Preclassic Maya figurines uncovered at Nixtun-Ch'ich' on Lake Peten Itzá in northern Guatemala. In this analysis--hand-modeled, terracotta, anthropomorphic fragments, animal figures, and musical instrumen...

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Autor principal: Rice, Prudence M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Louisville : University Press of Colorado, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Why figurines? -- Ritual, cooperation, costly signaling, and storytelling -- Overview : the human figure in formative Mesoamerica -- The Preclassic Maya lowlands and Central Peten -- Central Peten Preclassic anthropomorphic figurines : the body -- The human head and face in formative Mesoamerica : biological considerations -- Central Peten Preclassic anthropomorphic figurines : heads and faces -- Formative Mesoamerican heads : headgear, headdresses, and hairstyles -- Temporality, the sacred almanac, and writing -- Maya head-variant graphemes -- Summary and overview : Preclassic figurine heads and Classic Maya portrait glyphs -- Sound : musical instruments and zoomorphs -- Geochemistry : compositional analysis of Nixtun-Ch'ich' and Ixlu figurines -- Figurines, meanings, and contexts -- Anthropomorphizing the cosmos. 
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