Ancient West Mexico : art and archaeology of the unknown past / Richard F. Townsend, general editor ; with essays by Patricia Rieff Anawalt [and others].

Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Thames and Hudson ; Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago, 1998.
Description308 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 31 cm
Subjects

Other author/creatorTownsend, Richard F.
Other author/creatorAnawalt, Patricia Rieff, 1924-2015
Other author/creatorArt Institute of Chicago.
Other author/creatorLos Angeles County Museum of Art.
Portion of title Art and archaeology of the unknown past
Contents The Teuchitlan tradition : an archaeological prospect. The Teuchitlan tradition : rise of a statelike society / Phil C. Weigand, Christopher S. Beekman. Excavating the tomb at Huitzilapa / Lorenza López Mestas Camberos, Jorge Ramos de la Vega. Mortuary practices in the shaft-tomb region / Robert B. Pickering, Maria Teresa Cabrero -- Interpreting the tomb sculptures of ancient West Mexico. Food for the dead : the West Mexican art of feasting / Kristi Butterwick. Before gods, before kings / Richard F. Townsend. Sacred sun centers / Christopher L. Witmore. The West Mexican ballgame / Jane Stevenson Day. Shamanistic symbolism, transformation, and deities in West Mexican funerary art / Peter T. Furst. The iconography of rulership in ancient West Mexico / Mark Miller Graham --
Contents Comparative views. Natural resources and human settlements in ancient West Mexico / Otto Schöndube. The Sayula Basin : ancient settlements and resources / Francisco Valdez. They came to trade exquisite things : ancient West Mexican-Ecuadorian contacts / Patricia Rieff Anawalt. The evolution of complex societies in West Mexico : a comparative perspective / Joseph B. Mountjoy -- A modernist perspective. West Mexican art and modernist artists / Barbara Braun.
General note"This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Ancient West Mexico: Art of the Unknown Past,' organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and presented in the museum's Regenstein Hall from September 5 to November 22, 1998. The exhibition was also presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from December 20 to March 29, 1999"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 298-305).
LCCN 98060252
ISBN0500050929
ISBN0865591717 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks F1219 .A597 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold