| Description |
xv, 232 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), 1 map ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-221) and index. |
| Contents |
Social and cultural contexts of Moche art -- Introduction: toward a Moche epigraphy -- Moche art: social contexts, functions, and religious underpinnings -- Production of ceramic imagery -- Interpretation of Moche iconographic configurations -- Issues of iconographic analysis -- Mold technology and the formation of semantic units -- Muchic and the linguistic analogy -- Hybrid presentational syntax in moche iconography -- Concluding comments. |
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Mochica art.
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Mochica pottery -- Themes, motives.
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Picture-writing -- Peru.
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Symbolism in art -- Peru.
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Yunca language -- Writing.
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Peru -- Antiquities.
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| ISBN |
9780826343659 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0826343651 hardcover alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
40016435337 |
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