Social patterns in pre-classic Mesoamerica : a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 9 and 10 October 1993 / David C. Grove and Rosemary A. Joyce, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grove, David C.

Joyce, Rosemary A., 1956-

Dumbarton Oaks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Olmecs--Congresses.

Olmecs.

Mexico--Antiquities--Congresses.

Mexico.

Antiquities.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [1999]

Contents:

Asking new questions about the Mesoamerican pre-classic / Rosemary A. Joyce, David C. Grove

Social dimensions of pre-classic burials / Rosemary A. Joyce

The genesis of hierarchy: mortuary and offertory ritual in the pre-classic at Cuello, Belize / Norman Hammond

Men's and women's ritual in formative Oaxaca / Joyce Marcus

The pre-classic Maya compound as the focus of social identity / Julia A. Hendon

Ideology, material culture, and daily practice in pre-classic Mesoamerica: a Pacific coast perspective / Michael Love

From stone to symbols: Olmec art in social context at San Lorenzo Tenochtitlʹan / Ann Cyphers

Pre-classic cityscapes: ritual politics among the early lowland Maya / William M. Ringle

Olmec ritual behavior at El Manatʹi: a sacred space / Ponciano Ortʹiz C., Marʹia del Carmen Rodrʹiguez

Public monuments and sacred mountains: observations on three formative period sacred landscapes / David C. Grove

Ritual, social identity, and cosmology: hard stones and flowing water / Barbara L. Stark.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-317) and index.

ISBN:

0884022528

OCLC:

39229716