Painting the Skin : Pigments on Bodies and Codices in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.
| Author/creator | Dupey García, Elodie |
| Other author | Vázquez de Agredos Pascual, M. Luisa. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2019. |
| Description | 1 online resource (329 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Contents | Cover; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword: Skin-Deep / Stephen Houston; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Colors and the Skin in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica / Élodie Dupey García and María Luisa Vázquez de ágredos Pascual; Part I. Coloring Alive and Dead Bodies: Materiality and Significance of Mesoamerican Corporal Painting; 1. Painting the Skin in Ancient Mesoamerica / María Luisa Vázquez de ágredos Pascual; 2. Materiality and Meaning of Medicinal Body Colors in Teotihuacan / María Luisa Vázquez de ágredos Pascual, Sélim Natahi, Véronique Darras, and Linda R. Manzanilla Naim |
| Contents | 3. Painting the Dead in the Northern Maya Lowlands / Vera Tiesler, Kadwin Pérez López, and Patricia Quintana Owen4. Body Colors and Aromatics in Maya Funerary Rites / María Luisa Vázquez de ágredos Pascual, Cristina Vidal Lorenzo, Patricia Horcajada Campos, and Vera Tiesler; 5. Body Color and Body Adornment at Chichén Itzá / Virginia E. Miller; 6. The Yellow Women: Naked Skin, Everyday Cosmetics, and Ritual Body Painting in Postclassic Nahua Society / Élodie Dupey García |
| Contents | 7. The Colors of the Desert: Ritual and Aesthetic Uses of Pigments and Colorants by the Guachichil of Northern Mexico / Olivia KindlPart II. Illuminating Animal and Vegetal Skins: Chromatic Palettes and Meaning in Pre-Columbian Codices; 8. Coloring Materials, Technological Practices, and Painting Traditions: Cultural and Historical Implications of Nondestructive Chemical Analyses of Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican Codices / Davide Domenici, Costanza Miliani, David Buti, Brunetto Giovanni Brunetti, and Antonio Sgamellotti |
| Contents | 9. The Study of Color in the Colombino Codex: An Experimental Approach / Tatiana Falcón10. Preliminary Investigation on the Codex Borbonicus: Macroscopic Examination and Coloring Materials Characterization / Fabien Pottier, Anne Michelin, Anne Genachte-Le Bail, Aurélie Tournié, Christine Andraud, Fabrice Goubard, Aymeric Histace, and Bertrand Lavédrine; 11. Convergence and Difference in the Borgia Group Chromatic Palettes / Élodie Dupey García and María Isabel Álvarez Icaza Longoria |
| Contents | 12. Making and Using Colors in the Manufacture of Nahua Codices: Aesthetic Standards, Symbolic Purposes / Élodie Dupey García13. Skin of Walls: Plaster Practices Across Maya Books, Buildings, and People / Franco D. Rossi; Epilogue: The Painted Skin, a Cultural and Sensorial Legacy / María Luisa Vázquez de ágredos Pascual and Élodie Dupey García; References; Contributors; Index |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Dupey García, Élodie. Painting the Skin : Pigments on Bodies and Codices in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2019 9780816538447 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780816539093 |
| ISBN | 081653909X |