Andrea J Stone
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 687494 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Andrea J Stone |
| PRENOMES | Andrea J |
| SOBRENOME | Stone |
| ASSINATURA | STONE A J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Memphis |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0947-7692 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 6 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
‘Cuz this is what it feels like’
Although Black audiences view media, including film, at greater rates than other groups, little is known about the range of psychophysical feelings they have about media which represent their lives and identities. Given scholars’ overwhelming agreement that Black representations are stereotypical and negative, expected results might indicate audience agreement. However, more recent research has highlighted complex and positive portrayals of Black…
“You’re Not Dealing with What We’re Dealing with”
Keeping Abreast of the Maya
This paper discusses the importance of female breasts in gender construction in Maya art and explains artistic conventions and choices in their deployment. The visual analysis focuses on Late Classic pictorial vases and ceramic figurines. Rather than reflecting a natural body, the female breast was filtered through a cultural lens that drove its highly conceptual rendering in Maya art, mirrored in a breast hieroglyph. Through the principle of con…
Spirals, Ropes, and Feathers
Rubber had important utilitarian, symbolic, and ritual roles in ancient Mesoamerica. Among the latter is the use of rubber balls as burnt offerings. This paper examines characteristic iconographic manifestations of rubber-ball offerings in Mesoamerican art. One of these, the spiral, seen in the Postclassic Maya codices, is shown to have had greater temporal and geographic distribution than previously thought. Another is the Standard Rubber Offeri…
Images from the Underworld
Images from the Underworld
In 1979, a Kekchi Maya Indian accidentally discovered the entrance to Naj Tunich, a deep cave in the Maya Mountains of El Peten, Guatemala. One of the world's few deep caves that contain rock art, Naj Tunich features figural images and hieroglyphic inscriptions that have helped to revolutionize our understanding of ancient Maya art and ritual. In this book, Andrea Stone takes a comprehensive look at Maya cave painting from Preconquest times to th…
Spirals, Ropes, and Feathers
Rubber had important utilitarian, symbolic, and ritual roles in ancient Mesoamerica. Among the latter is the use of rubber balls as burnt offerings. This paper examines characteristic iconographic manifestations of rubber-ball offerings in Mesoamerican art. One of these, the spiral, seen in the Postclassic Maya codices, is shown to have had greater temporal and geographic distribution than previously thought. Another is the Standard Rubber Offeri…
Keeping Abreast of the Maya
This paper discusses the importance of female breasts in gender construction in Maya art and explains artistic conventions and choices in their deployment. The visual analysis focuses on Late Classic pictorial vases and ceramic figurines. Rather than reflecting a natural body, the female breast was filtered through a cultural lens that drove its highly conceptual rendering in Maya art, mirrored in a breast hieroglyph. Through the principle of con…
Images from the Underworld
In 1979, a Kekchi Maya Indian accidentally discovered the entrance to Naj Tunich, a deep cave in the Maya Mountains of El Peten, Guatemala. One of the world's few deep caves that contain rock art, Naj Tunich features figural images and hieroglyphic inscriptions that have helped to revolutionize our understanding of ancient Maya art and ritual. In this book, Andrea Stone takes a comprehensive look at Maya cave painting from Preconquest times to th…
Images from the Underworld
Spirals, Ropes, and Feathers
Rubber had important utilitarian, symbolic, and ritual roles in ancient Mesoamerica. Among the latter is the use of rubber balls as burnt offerings. This paper examines characteristic iconographic manifestations of rubber-ball offerings in Mesoamerican art. One of these, the spiral, seen in the Postclassic Maya codices, is shown to have had greater temporal and geographic distribution than previously thought. Another is the Standard Rubber Offeri…
Keeping Abreast of the Maya
This paper discusses the importance of female breasts in gender construction in Maya art and explains artistic conventions and choices in their deployment. The visual analysis focuses on Late Classic pictorial vases and ceramic figurines. Rather than reflecting a natural body, the female breast was filtered through a cultural lens that drove its highly conceptual rendering in Maya art, mirrored in a breast hieroglyph. Through the principle of con…
“You’re Not Dealing with What We’re Dealing with”
‘Cuz this is what it feels like’
Although Black audiences view media, including film, at greater rates than other groups, little is known about the range of psychophysical feelings they have about media which represent their lives and identities. Given scholars’ overwhelming agreement that Black representations are stereotypical and negative, expected results might indicate audience agreement. However, more recent research has highlighted complex and positive portrayals of Black…
Art (4 obras) · Aesthetics (3 obras) · Archaeology (3 obras) · History (3 obras) · Sociology (3 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (2 obras) · Geography (2 obras) · Latin American history and culture (2 obras) · Maya (2 obras) · Philosophy (2 obras)