Ancient West Mexico : art and archaeology of the unknown past /

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Corporate Authors: Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
Other Authors: Townsend, Richard F. (Editor), Anawalt, Patricia Rieff 1924-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York: Thame and Hudson, 1998
Edition:Primera edición
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. The Teuchitlan tradition : an archaeological prospect. The Teuchitlan tradition : rise of a statelike society / Phil C. Weigand, Christopher S. Beekman
  • Excavating the tomb at Huitzilapa / Lorenza López Mestas Camberos, Jorge Ramos de la Vega
  • Mortuary practices in the shaft-tomb region / Robert B. Pickering, Maria Teresa Cabrero
  • Pt. 2. Interpreting the tomb sculptures of ancient West Mexico. Food for the dead : the West Mexican art of feasting / Kristi Butterwick
  • Before gods, before kings / Richard F. Townsend
  • Sacred sun centers / Christopher L. Witmore
  • The West Mexican ballgame / Jane Stevenson Day
  • Shamanistic symbolism, transformation, and deities in West Mexican funerary art / Peter T. Furst
  • The iconography of rulership in ancient West Mexico / Mark Miller Graham.
  • Pt. 3. Comparative views. Natural resources and human settlements in ancient West Mexico / Otto Schöndube
  • The Sayula Basin : ancient settlements and resources / Francisco Valdez
  • They came to trade exquisite things : ancient West Mexican-Ecuadorian contacts / Patricia Rieff Anawalt
  • The evolution of complex societies in West Mexico : a comparative perspective / Joseph B. Mountjoy
  • Pt. 4. A modernist perspective. West Mexican art and modernist artists / Barbara Braun.