Ceramics of ancient America : multidisciplinary approaches / edited by Yumi Park Huntington, Dean E. Arnold, and Johanna Minich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

Park Huntington, Yumi, editor.

Arnold, Dean E., 1942- editor.

Minich, Johanna, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terra-cotta sculpture.

Indian pottery.

America.

Indian pottery--America.

Terra-cotta sculpture--America.

Physical Description:

x, 370 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2018]

Summary:

This edited volume analyzes ceramics specifically from ancient America to add new layers to our understanding by emphasizing new perspectives and a multidisciplinary approach from the fields of archaeology, art history, and anthropology. This volume will help students and scholars alike better understand and appreciate ceramics as one of the vital forms of communication within small social units, and across cultural and political boundaries.

Contents:

A new approach to pre-Columbian pottery : introduction to the volume / Dean E. Arnold, Yumi Park Huntington, and Johanna Minich

Part I. Revealing natural and supernatural concepts through formal analysis. Ceramic wares and water spirits : identifying religious sodalities in the lower Mississippi Valley / David H. Dye

Naturalism and contrapposto in the ceramics of ancient Ecuador : ideology and the humanistic trend in ancient American art / James Farmer

Part II. Investigating identity and social narrative through iconographic analysis and intertextuality. Exploring the technology and meaning behind early ceramic figurines from the Casma Valley, Peru / Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski

Emblems of cultural identity in early Andean art : engraved head motifs on Cupisnique ceramics / Yumi Park Huntington

Bodies in both worlds : a preliminary comparison of human and supernatural dress in Moche art / Sarahh E.M. Scher

Intertextuality in classic Maya ceramic art and writing : the interplay of myth and history on the Regal Rabbit Vase / Michael D. Carrasco and Robert F. Wald

Part III. Symmetry patterns and their social dimensions. Symmetry analysis of step fret patterns on ceramics and other media from Mesoamerica and the American Southwest : continuities and changes in a shared pattern system / Dorothy K. Washburn

The importance of symmetry in defining Caddo relationships : a synthesis of perspective / Johanna Minich and Jeff Price

Part IV. Charting innovation through diachronic studies. "Ceramic sets" in Maya and Toltec ceramics : the search for innovation and competition in ancient Mesoamerican pottery systems / George J. Bey III

A diachronic perspective on the Prehispanic ceramic tradition of the Valley of Oaxaca / Gary M. Feinman

Product continuity and change in persistent household ceramic production : the Tarascan case / Amy J. Hirshman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

ISBN:

9780813056067

0813056063

OCLC:

1019834232

Publisher Number:

99980200641