| Description |
397 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 31 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Principles and themes -- Introduction: landscape and symbol / Richard F. Townsend -- Pre-Columbian images of time / Anthony F. Aveni -- The persistence of Maya tradition in Zinacantan / Evon Z. Vogt -- Mankind and the earth in America and Europe / Vincent Scully -- The Southwest -- Mimbres art: form and imagery / J.J. Brody -- The architecture of the ancient Southwest / Stephen H. Lekson -- Mesoamerica -- Order and nature in Olmec art / Beatriz de la Fuente -- The |
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natural world as civic metaphor at Teotihuacan / Esther Pasztory -- The beginnings of preclassic Maya art and architecture / Juan Antonio Valdes -- The image of people and nature in classic Maya art and architecture / Mary Ellen Miller -- The renewal of nature at the temple of Tlaloc / Richard F. Townsend -- The Aztec main pyramid: ritual architecture at Tenochtitlan / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma -- Pictorial codices of ancient Mexico / Elizabeth Hill Boone -- Central |
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America and the northern Andes -- Cosmovision of the chiefdoms of the Isthmus of Panama / Mary W. Helms -- Symbols, ideology, and the expression of power in La Tolita, Ecuador / Francisco Valdez -- The Tairona of ancient Colombia / Tom Zuidema -- Andean civilization / The sacred center of Chavin de Huantar / Richard L. Burger -- Paracas Necropolis textiles: symbolic visions of coastal Peru / Anne Paul -- Interpreting the Nazca lines / Johan Reinhard -- The world of Moche |
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/ Elizabeth P. Benson -- Tiwanaku: the city at the center / Alan Kolata, Carlos Ponce Sangines -- Camelids and chaos in Huari and Tiwanaku textiles / Rebecca Stone-Miller -- Inca architecture and the sacred landscape / Susan A. Niles -- Ancestral time and sacred space in Inca state ritual / Colin McEwan, Maarten Van de Guchte. |
| Subject |
Indian art -- America.
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Indians -- Antiquities.
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America -- Antiquities.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous art -- America.
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Indigenous peoples -- Antiquities.
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| Added Author |
Townsend, Richard F.
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| ISBN |
0865591040 |
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