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Anthropomorphic Imagery in the Mesoamerican Highlands Gods, Ancestors, and Human Beings
Title
Anthropomorphic Imagery in the Mesoamerican Highlands [electronic resource] : Gods, Ancestors, and Human Beings / edited by Brigitte Faugère and Christopher Beekman.
ISBN
1607329956
9781607329954
1607329948
9781607329947
Published
Louisville, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2019] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Summary
"'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 body, and the relationship to other entities, nature, and the cosmos."-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2020 Archaeology and Anthropology.
Project MUSE - 2020 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2020 Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Other formats
Print version: Anthropomorphic imagery in the Mesoamerican highlands Louisville, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2019]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 20, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction. Gods, ancestors, and human beings / Brigitte Faugere and Christopher Beekman
Pretty face and naked body in context: meanings and uses of Chupícuaro figurines (Guanajuato) during the Late Formative / Brigitte Faugere
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 / Daniele Dehouve.
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