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UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO (2010)
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There is no Classical Yucatecan Maya word for "myth." But around the close of the 17th century, an anonymous Maya scribe penned what he called "the world history of the era," before Christianity came to ...
COTSEN INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT UCLA (2010)
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In AD 1438 a battle took place outside the city of Cuzco that changed the course of South American history. The Chanka, a powerful ethnic group from the Andahuaylas region, had begun an aggressive program ...
ROUTLEDGE (2010)
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When the Maya kings of Tikal dedicated their first carved monuments in the third century A.D., inaugurating the Classic period of Maya history that lasted for six centuries and saw the rise of such famous ...
MARSILIO (2010)
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A trip across time along a golden labyrinth leading to the birth of pre-Columbian civilizations. More than 250 masterpieces from the most important museums of Peru reveal the mastery and the skill of the pre-Columbian ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2010)
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Considered the 'mother culture' of Mesoamerica, the Olmec developed an iconic and sophisticated artistic style as early as the second millennium B.C. This pre-Columbian civilization, which flourished in the Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco ...
ABBEVILLE (2010)
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Pre-Columbian Architecture in Mesoamerica is destined to become a standard reference for the serious student and an intellectual delight for the interested amateur. This authoritative yet accessible study begins with an overview of the aesthetics, ...
SIDESTONE (2010)
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This study is a contribution to the household archaeology of the Caribbean. The aim of the research was to come to a material definition of the pre-colonial house, rather than rely on the few, short, ...
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2010)
pvp.28,04 €
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A major contribution to both art history and Latin American studies, A Culture of Stone offers sophisticated new insights into Inka culture and the interpretation of non-Western art. Carolyn Dean focuses on rock outcrops masterfully ...
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MERCATORFONDS (2010)
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An international exhibition on human sacrifice in the Andes, state rituals, the kingdom of the Incas and the world of the gods.
Children's bodies, frozen solid and accompanied by stunning objects, tell the intriguing story ...
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2010)
pvp.42,08 €
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The provocative three-part project Black Mirror/Espejo Negro by the artist Pedro Lasch encompasses a museum installation, photographs of the installation, and this bilingual book, including many of the photos, the artist's statement, and critical commentaries. ...
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2010)
pvp.31,55 €
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In Houses in a Landscape, Julia A. Hendon examines the connections between social identity and social memory using archaeological research on indigenous societies that existed more than one thousand years ago in what is now ...
J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM (2010)
pvp.52,00 €
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Analyzed by scholars, deployed by Mexican nationalists, beloved by the public, and reproduced in every medium and scale since its rediscovery in 1790, the Aztec Calendar Stone, or Piedra del Sol, has become the most ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2010)
pvp.78,68 €
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This book begins by proposing a theoretical model that reconciles orality-literacy studies and media theory in order to avoid the specious dichotomization of societies into those with and those without writing. The more relevant issue ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2010)
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From antiquity to the present day, color has been embedded with cultural meaning. Associated with blood, fire, fertility, and the life force, the color red has always been extremely difficult to achieve and thus highly ...
MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO PRESS (2010)
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Known today for colourful, decorative yarn paintings renowned in the global art market, the indigenous Huichols of western Mexico have retained their unique culture and arts, creating traditional art and practising ancient rituals that predate ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2010)
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Mesoamerica is one of several cradles of civilisation in the world. In this book, Robert M. Rosenswig proposes that we understand Early Formative Mesoamerica as an archipelago of complex societies that interacted with one another ...
J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM (2010)
pvp.26,67 €
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When the Aztec Empire emerged to dominate central Mexico from 1460 to 1519, vast amounts of tribute wealth flowed into the capital city of Tenochtitlan, enabling artists and architects to create sophisticated works on a ...
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CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2010)
pvp.67,25 €
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How did farmers, artisans, and rulers make a living in a tropical forest environment? In this study, Patricia McAnany tackles this question and presents the first comprehensive view of ancestral Maya economic practice. Bringing an ...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS (2010)
pvp.74,53 €
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Around 1542, descendants of the Aztec rulers of Mexico created accounts of the pre-Hispanic history of the city of Tetzcoco, Mexico, one of the imperial capitals of the Aztec Empire. Painted in iconic script ("picture ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2010)
pvp.57,20 €
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Maya art and hieroglyphs constitute one of the world's most fascinating, visually striking, and complex systems of expression. Most scholarly interpretations of Maya art and culture have emphasized that this ancient civilization was oriented toward ...
