A pre-Columbian world

Körperschaft: Dumbarton Oaks
Weitere Verfasser: Miller, Mary Ellen
Quilter, Jeffrey, 1949-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2006.
Umfang/Format: 395 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: América Latina
Nordamerika
Südamerika
Online Zugang: Table of contents only
Inhaltsangabe:
  • The defining sample : how we pursue the pre-Columbian past / Elizabeth Hill Boone
  • On pre-Columbian narrative : representation across the word-image divide / Simon Martin
  • Glimpses of a common cosmos? : a brief look south and north from Panama / Mary W. Helms
  • Salient representations of the American past / Warren R. DeBoer
  • Exploring the Mississippian big bang at Cahokia / Robert L. Hall
  • Bringing the rain : an ideology of rain making in the Pueblo Southwest and Mesoamerica / Polly Schaafsma and Karl A. Taube
  • Teotihuacan in Mesoamerican political history / Enrique Florescano
  • History, memory, and knowledge in Andean visual imagery : the intersection of art, architecture, and landscape / Tom D. Dillehay and Ramiro Matos
  • Animal transformations : the mixing of Maya and European fantasy and belief / Anna Blume
  • The study of the pre-Columbian world / Mary Miller.