Moche art and visual culture in ancient Peru / Margaret A. Jackson.

Author/creator Jackson, Margaret A.
Format Book
Publication InfoAlbuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008.
Descriptionxv, 232 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), 1 map ; 27 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 181-221) and index.
LCCN 2008036819
ISBN9780826343659 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0826343651 (hardcover : alk. paper)