Mesoamerican Figurines

Small-Scale Indices of Large-Scale Social Phenomena

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7535596
AutoresChristina T Halperin, Katherine Faust, Katherine A Faust, Rhonda Taube, Aurore Giguet
Año2009
Páginas448
Fecha de publicación2009-06-21
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaMesoamerican figurines (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialUniversity Press of Florida (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5744/florida/9780813033303.001.0001
OpenAlexW4256130741
Open LibraryOL22843898M
ISBN9780813033303
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13

Figurines are among the most abundant class of artifacts known in the vast Mesoamerican culture. This volume examines these figurines from the Olmec to the Aztec civilizations. These small, often ceramic objects are commonly found at many archaeological sites. They appear in the shape of humans, supernatural beings, animals, and buildings. This book brings together many scholars of art history, archaeology, ethnohistory, anthropology, and social theory to analyze these objects by their stylistic attributes, archaeological content, function, and meaning. Because of their variety and number, figurines represent a rich dataset from which ancient Mesoamerican identity and practices can be ascertained, including human body symbolism, materiality, memory and human agency, trade and interaction, and religion

Geography · Latin American history and culture · Antiquities · Central america · Congresses · Indian pottery · Indians of Central America · Indians of mexico · Maya pottery · Mayas · Mexico · Pottery figures