Anthropomorphic imagery in the Mesoamerican highlands : gods, ancestors, and human beings / edited by Brigitte Faugè̀re and Christopher S. Beekman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Faugère, Brigitte, editor.

Beekman, Christopher, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian art--Mexico.

Indian art.

Mexico.

Anthropomorphism in art.

Mexico--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume)

polychrome

Other Title:

Gods, ancestors, and human beings

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction. Gods, ancestors, and human beings / Brigitte Faugère and Christopher Beekman

Pretty face and naked body in context: meanings and uses of Chupícuaro figurines (Guanajuato) during the Late Formative / Brigitte Faugère

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 / Danièle Dehouve.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 21, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: Anthropomorphic imagery in the Mesoamerican highlands

ISBN:

9781607329954

1607329956

Publisher Number:

40029803126

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.