The Iconography of the Teotihuacan Tlaloc
Author | : Esther Pasztory |
Publisher | : Dumbarton Oaks |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780884020592 |
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Author | : Esther Pasztory |
Publisher | : Dumbarton Oaks |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780884020592 |
Author | : Esther Pasztory |
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Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1974 |
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Author | : George Kubler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1967 |
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Author | : Esther Pasztory |
Publisher | : Garland Publishing |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Design |
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Author | : George Kubler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Indian art |
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Author | : Brigitte Faugère |
Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2020-02-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1607329956 |
In Anthropomorphic Imagery in the Mesoamerican Highlands, Latin American, North American, and European researchers explore the meanings and functions of two- and three-dimensional human representations in the Precolumbian communities of the Mexican highlands. Reading these anthropomorphic representations from an ontological perspective, the contributors demonstrate the rich potential of anthropomorphic imagery to elucidate personhood, conceptions of the body, and the relationship of human beings to other entities, nature, and the cosmos. Using case studies covering a broad span of highlands prehistory—Classic Teotihuacan divine iconography, ceramic figures in Late Formative West Mexico, Epiclassic Puebla-Tlaxcala costumed figurines, earth sculptures in Prehispanic Oaxaca, Early Postclassic Tula symbolic burials, Late Postclassic representations of Aztec Kings, and more—contributors examine both Mesoamerican representations of the body in changing social, political, and economic conditions and the multivalent emic meanings of these representations. They explore the technology of artifact production, the body’s place in social structures and rituals, the language of the body as expressed in postures and gestures, hybrid and transformative combinations of human and animal bodies, bodily representations of social categories, body modification, and the significance of portable and fixed representations. Anthropomorphic Imagery in the Mesoamerican Highlands provides a wide range of insights into Mesoamerican concepts of personhood and identity, the constitution of the human body, and human relationships with gods and ancestors. It will be of great value to students and scholars of the archaeology and art history of Mexico. Contributors: Claire Billard, Danièle Dehouve, Cynthia Kristan-Graham, Melissa Logan, Sylvie Peperstraete, Patricia Plunket, Mari Carmen Serra Puche, Juliette Testard, Andrew Turner, Gabriela Uruñuela, Marcus Winter
Author | : Jorge Humberto Ramos Gomez |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1090 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Copán (Honduras : Department) |
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Author | : Janet Catherine Berlo |
Publisher | : Dumbarton Oaks |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780884022053 |
Author | : Annabeth Headrick |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2013-03-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0292749872 |
Northeast of modern-day Mexico City stand the remnants of one of the world's largest preindustrial cities, Teotihuacan. Monumental in scale, Teotihuacan is organized along a three-mile-long thoroughfare, the Avenue of the Dead, that leads up to the massive Pyramid of the Moon. Lining the avenue are numerous plazas and temples, which indicate that the city once housed a large population that engaged in complex rituals and ceremonies. Although scholars have studied Teotihuacan for over a century, the precise nature of its religious and political life has remained unclear, in part because no one has yet deciphered the glyphs that may explain much about the city's organization and belief systems. In this groundbreaking book, Annabeth Headrick analyzes Teotihuacan's art and architecture, in the light of archaeological data and Mesoamerican ethnography, to propose a new model for the city's social and political organization. Challenging the view that Teotihuacan was a peaceful city in which disparate groups united in an ideology of solidarity, Headrick instead identifies three social groups that competed for political power—rulers, kin-based groups led by influential lineage heads, and military orders that each had their own animal insignia. Her findings provide the most complete evidence to date that Teotihuacan had powerful rulers who allied with the military to maintain their authority in the face of challenges by the lineage heads. Headrick's analysis also underscores the importance of warfare in Teotihuacan society and clarifies significant aspects of its ritual life, including shamanism and an annual tree-raising ceremony that commemorated the Mesoamerican creation story.
Author | : Arthur G. Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Art |
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