[PDF] The Pottery Of Pre Columbian Central America eBook

Author : Yumi Park Huntington
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 14,40 MB
Release : 2018-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813052416

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This is the first volume to bring together archaeology, anthropology, and art history in the analysis of pre-Columbian pottery. While previous research on ceramic artifacts has been divided by these three disciplines, this volume shows how integrating these approaches provides new understandings of many different aspects of Ancient American societies. Contributors from a variety of backgrounds in these fields explore what ceramics can reveal about ancient social dynamics, trade, ritual, politics, innovation, iconography, and regional styles. Essays identify supernatural and humanistic beliefs through formal analysis of Lower Mississippi Valley "Great Serpent" effigy vessels and Ecuadorian depictions of the human figure. They discuss the cultural identity conveyed by imagery such as Andean head motifs, and they analyze symmetry in designs from locations including the American Southwest. Chapters also take diachronic approaches—methods that track change over time—to ceramics from Mexico’s Tarascan State and the Valley of Oaxaca, as well as from Maya and Toltec societies. This volume provides a much-needed multidisciplinary synthesis of current scholarship on Ancient American ceramics. It is a model of how different research perspectives can together illuminate the relationship between these material artifacts and their broader human culture. Contributors: | Dean Arnold | George J. Bey III | Michael Carrasco | David Dye | James Farmer | Gary Feinman | Amy Hirshman | Yumi Park Huntington | Johanna Minich | Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski | Jeff Price | Sarahh Scher | Dorothy Washburn | Robert F. Wald

Author : Samuel Kirkland Lothrop
Publisher : Dover
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Art
ISBN :

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The inhabitants of Cocle province on the southern coast of Panama created imaginatively decorative ceremonial bowls, adorned with countless powerful and sophisticated versions of motifs popular among native civilizations. This collection includes 591 of these beautifully stylized images, including gods, men, birds, fish, monkeys, florals, abstracts — all in the beautiful Cocle style.

Author : Barbara Braun
Publisher : Abradale Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 28,8 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN :

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Offers an in-depth look at pre-Columbian sources of modern art.