Ancient West Mexico [electronic resource] : art and archaeology of the unknown past / Richard F. Townsend, general editor ; with essays by Patricia Rieff Anawalt ... [et al.].
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| Language: | English |
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New York : Chicago :
Thames and Hudson ; Art Institute of Chicago,
1998.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Art and archaeology of the unknown past
Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of the Unknown Past |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- Pt. 1. The Teuchitlan tradition : an archaeological prospect. The Teuchitlan tradition : rise of a statelike society / Phil C. Weigand, Christopher S. Beekman
- Excavating the tomb at Huitzilapa / Lorenza López Mestas Camberos, Jorge Ramos de la Vega
- Mortuary practices in the shaft-tomb region / Robert B. Pickering, Maria Teresa Cabrero
- Pt. 2. Interpreting the tomb sculptures of ancient West Mexico. Food for the dead : the West Mexican art of feasting / Kristi Butterwick
- Before gods, before kings / Richard F. Townsend
- Sacred sun centers / Christopher L. Witmore
- The West Mexican ballgame / Jane Stevenson Day
- Shamanistic symbolism, transformation, and deities in West Mexican funerary art / Peter T. Furst
- The iconography of rulership in ancient West Mexico / Mark Miller Graham.
- Pt. 3. Comparative views. Natural resources and human settlements in ancient West Mexico / Otto Schöndube
- The Sayula Basin : ancient settlements and resources / Francisco Valdez
- They came to trade exquisite things : ancient West Mexican-Ecuadorian contacts / Patricia Rieff Anawalt
- The evolution of complex societies in West Mexico : a comparative perspective / Joseph B. Mountjoy
- Pt. 4. A modernist perspective. West Mexican art and modernist artists / Barbara Braun.