Painting the Skin Pigments on Bodies and Codices in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica / edited by Élodie Dupey García and María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vázquez de Agredos Pascual, M. Luisa, editor.

Dupey García, Elodie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mexican--History--To 1500.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mexican.

Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian).

Indians of Mexico--Social life and customs.

Indians of Mexico.

Cosmetics--Mexico--History--To 1500.

Cosmetics.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2018]

Summary:

"The book brings together exciting research on painted skins--human, animal, and vegetal--in Mesoamerica. It offers physicochemical analysis and interdisciplinary understandings of the materiality, uses, and cultural meanings of the colors applied on a multitude of skins, including bodies, codices, and even building 'skins'"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright

Contents

Foreword: Skin-Deep / Stephen Houston

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Colors and the Skin in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica / Élodie Dupey García and María Luisa Vázquez de ágredos Pascual

Part I. Coloring Alive and Dead Bodies: Materiality and Significance of Mesoamerican Corporal Painting

1. Painting the Skin in Ancient Mesoamerica / María Luisa Vázquez de ágredos Pascual

2. Materiality and Meaning of Medicinal Body Colors in Teotihuacan / María Luisa Vázquez de ágredos Pascual, Sélim Natahi, Véronique Darras, and Linda R. Manzanilla Naim

3. Painting the Dead in the Northern Maya Lowlands / Vera Tiesler, Kadwin Pérez López, and Patricia Quintana Owen

4. Body Colors and Aromatics in Maya Funerary Rites / María Luisa Vázquez de ágredos Pascual, Cristina Vidal Lorenzo, Patricia Horcajada Campos, and Vera Tiesler

5. Body Color and Body Adornment at Chichén Itzá / Virginia E. Miller

6. The Yellow Women: Naked Skin, Everyday Cosmetics, and Ritual Body Painting in Postclassic Nahua Society / Élodie Dupey García

7. The Colors of the Desert: Ritual and Aesthetic Uses of Pigments and Colorants by the Guachichil of Northern Mexico / Olivia Kindl

Part II. Illuminating Animal and Vegetal Skins: Chromatic Palettes and Meaning in Pre-Columbian Codices

8. Coloring Materials, Technological Practices, and Painting Traditions: Cultural and Historical Implications of Nondestructive Chemical Analyses of Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican Codices / Davide Domenici, Costanza Miliani, David Buti, Brunetto Giovanni Brunetti, and Antonio Sgamellotti

9. The Study of Color in the Colombino Codex: An Experimental Approach / Tatiana Falcón.

10. Preliminary Investigation on the Codex Borbonicus: Macroscopic Examination and Coloring Materials Characterization / Fabien Pottier, Anne Michelin, Anne Genachte-Le Bail, Aurélie Tournié, Christine Andraud, Fabrice Goubard, Aymeric Histace, and Bertrand Lavédrine

11. Convergence and Difference in the Borgia Group Chromatic Palettes / Élodie Dupey García and María Isabel Álvarez Icaza Longoria

12. Making and Using Colors in the Manufacture of Nahua Codices: Aesthetic Standards, Symbolic Purposes / Élodie Dupey García

13. Skin of Walls: Plaster Practices Across Maya Books, Buildings, and People / Franco D. Rossi

Epilogue: The Painted Skin, a Cultural and Sensorial Legacy / María Luisa Vázquez de ágredos Pascual and Élodie Dupey García

References

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8165-3909-X

OCLC:

1101044037