So-Called Jaguar-Human Copulation Scenes in Olmec Art
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2567074 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Whitney Davis (0009-0003-3298-8973) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 453-457 |
| Publication date | 1978-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/279403 |
| OpenAlex | W2324670455 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 10 |
Three Olmec sculptures are frequently thought to represent copulation between human beings and jaguars, an important element in what we are able to reconstruct of Olmec belief, but evidence and parallels discussed here suggest that this interpretation of the sculptures is incorrect. Alternate explanations which are consistent with a new view would assign an aggressive, ritual, or allegorical meaning to these sculptures and to certain other related Olmec representations
Archaeology · Art · Biology · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Jaguar · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Parallels · Sculpture · Visual arts · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Natural History · Ecology · History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2001 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |