Ceramics of ancient America : multidisciplinary approaches

Weitere Verfasser: Park Huntington, Yumi , [HerausgeberIn]
Arnold, Dean E., 1942- , [HerausgeberIn]
Minich, Johanna , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018].
Umfang/Format: x, 370 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction / Dean Arnold, Yumi Park Huntington, Johanna Minich
  • Revealing natural and supernatural concepts through formal analysis
  • Ceramic wares and water spirits: identifying religious sodalities in the lower Mississippi Valley / David H. Dye
  • Naturalism and "contrapposto" in the ceramics of ancient Ecuador: ideology and the humanistic trend in ancient American art / James Farmer
  • Investigating identity and social narrative through iconographic analysis and intertextuality
  • Exploring the technology and meaning behind early ceramic figurines from the Casma Valley, Peru / Shelia Pozorski & Thomas Pozorski
  • Emblems of cultural identity in early Andean art: engraved head motifs on Cupisnique ceramics / Yumi Park Huntington
  • Bodies in both worlds: a preliminary comparison of human and supernatural dress in Moche art / Sarahh E. H. Scher
  • Intertextuality in classic Maya ceramic art and writing: the interplay of myth and history on the Regal Rabbit Vase / Michael D. Carrasco & Robert F. Wald
  • Symmetry patterns and their social dimensions
  • Symmetry analysis of step fret patterns on ceramics and other media from Mesoamerica and the American Southwest: continuities and changes in a shared pattern system / Dorothy K. Washburn
  • The importance of symmetry in defining Caddo relationships: a synthesis of perspective / Johanna Minich and Jeff Price
  • Charting innovation through diachronic studies
  • "Ceramic sets" in Maya and Toltec ceramics: the search for innovation and competition in ancient Mesoamerican pottery system / George J. Bey III
  • A diachronic perspective on the Prehispanic ceramic tradition of the Valley of Oaxaca / Gary M. Feinman
  • Product continuity and change in persistent household ceramic production: the Tarascan case / Amy J. Hirshman.