Anthropomorphic Imagery in the Mesoamerican Highlands Gods, Ancestors, and Human Beings / edited by Brigitte Faugère and Christopher Beekman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faugère, Brigitte, Author.

Contributor:

Beekman, Christopher, editor.

Faugère, Brigitte, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropomorphism in art.

Indian art--Mexico.

Indian art.

Mexico--Antiquities.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2019]

Summary:

"'Mexican, North American, and European researchers explore the meanings and functions of two-and three-dimensional human representations in pre-Columbian communities of Mexican highlands. They demonstrate the potential of anthropomorphic imagery to elucidate personhood, conceptions of the body, and the relationship to other entities, nature, and the cosmos."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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

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

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 / Daniele Dehouve.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-60732-995-6

OCLC:

1114270576