Political Themes on Mesoamerican Monuments

A Case Study

Bibliographic Data

ID2568129
AuthorsCharles D Cheek (0000-0001-5359-2001, corresponding author)
Year1975
Volume40
Issue3
Pages320-326
Publication date1975-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/279694
OpenAlexW1993810301
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited10

Many Mesoamericanists today accept the fact that much Mesoamerican art, in various media, depicts historical events and persons. Much of this evidence has come from hieroglyphic texts. This paper attempts to demonstrate the value of using non-glyphic attributes of depictions of personages and of interaction scenes to investigate the same problems. Non-glyphic attributes of scenes and individual dress and ornamentation are treated as coded cultural information that reflects patterned sociocultural phenomena. This approach is applied to Cotzumalhuapan sculpture from Coastal Guatemala. It is demonstrated that there are two distinctive facial types in interaction which seem to represent two different socio-political groups

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Face (sociological concept) · Political science · Politics · Sculpture · Social science · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Visual arts · Anthropology · Computer Science · History · Latin American history and culture · Law · Multidisciplinary Research Papers Compilation · Public Spaces through Art

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