Mesoamerican figurines : small-scale indices of large-scale social phenomena / edited by Christina T. Halperin [and others].

Other author Halperin, Christina T.
Other author Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting 2006 : San Juan, P.R.)
Other author Braunstein Symposium Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History)
Format Book
Publication InfoGainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2009.
Descriptionxiv, 440 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Subjects
Indian pottery--Mexico. --Congresses.
Indian pottery--Central America. --Congresses.
Maya pottery--Congresses.
Pottery figures--Mexico. --Congresses.
Pottery figures--Central America. --Congresses.
Indians of Mexico--Antiquities. --Congresses.
Indians of Central America--Antiquities. --Congresses.
Mayas--Antiquities. --Congresses.

Contents Approaching Mesoamerican figurines / Katherine A. Faust and Christina T. Halperin -- Rethinking figurines / Joyce Marcus -- Honduran figurines and whistles in social context: production, use, and meaning in the Ulúa Valley / Jeanne Lopiparo and Julia A. Hendon -- Formative period Gulf Coast ceramic figurines: the key to identifying sex, gender, and age groups in Gulf Coast Olmec imagery / Billie J. A. Follensbee -- Identity, gender, and power: representational juxtapositions in early formative figurines from Oaxaca, Mexico / Jeffrey P. Blomster -- Early Olmec figurines from two regions: style as cultural imperative / David Cheetham -- Crafting the body beautiful: performing social identity at Santa Isabel, Nicaragua / Geoffrey G. McCafferty and Sharisse D. McCafferty -- New fire figurines and the iconography of penitence in Huastec art / Katherine A. Faust -- The beautiful, the bad, and the ugly: aesthetics and morality in Maya figurines / Rhonda Taube and Karl Taube -- The weeping baby and the Nauha corn spirit: the human body as key symbol in the Huasteca Veracruzana, Mexico / Alan R. Sandstrom -- Alien bodies, everyday people, and hollow spaces: embodiment, figurines, and social discourse in postclassic Mexico / Elizabeth M. Brumfiel and Lisa Overholtzer -- Sex in the city: a comparison of Aztec ceramic figurines to Copal figurines from the Templo Mayor / Cecelia F. Klein and Naoli Victoria Lona -- Figurines as bearers of and burdens in late classic Maya state politics / Christina T. Halperin -- Making a world of their own: Mesoamerican figurines and Mesoamerican figurine analysis / Rosemary A. Joyce.
General notePapers originally presented at two symposia; one was held as part of the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the other was the first annual Braunstein Symposium held at the Marjorie Barrick Museum at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Mesoamerican figurines. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2009
LCCN 2008054949
ISBN9780813033303 (alk. paper)
ISBN0813033306 (alk. paper)

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