Gold and power in ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia : a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 9 and 10 October 1999
| Körperschaft: |
Dumbarton Oaks
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| Weitere Verfasser: |
Quilter, Jeffrey, 1949-
Hoopes, John W. |
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Washington, D.C. :
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections,
2003.
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| Umfang/Format: |
vi, 429 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
| Schlagworte: |
Ethnologie
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| iDAI.gazetteer: |
América Latina |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction : the golden bridge of the Darién / Jeffrey Quilter
- "Catching the light" : technologies of power and enchantment in Pre-Columbian goldworking / Nicholas J. Saunders
- Goldwork and Chibchan identity : endogenous change and diffuse unity in the Isthmo-Colombian area / John W. Hoopes and Oscar M. Fonseca Z.
- Who crafted, exchanged, and displayed gold in Pre-Colombian Panama? / Richard Cooke ... [et al.]
- From jade to gold in Costa Rica : how, why, and when / Michael J. Snarskis
- Metallurgy, balls, and stone statuary in the Diquís Delta, Costa Rica : local production of power symbols / Patricia Fernández and Ifigenia Quintanilla
- The political economy of Pre-Colombian gold works : four examples from northern South America / Carl Henrik Langebaek
- Creation imagery in the goldwork of Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia / Mark Miller Graham
- Gold, stone, and ideology : symbols of power in the Tairona tradition of northern Colombia / Warwick Bray
- The seed of life : the symbolic power of gold-copper alloys and metallurgical transformations / Ana María Falchetti
- Gold in the everyday lives of indigenous peoples of sixteenth-century southern Central America / Eugenia Ibarra
