Painting the cosmos : art and iconography of the ceramics of ancient Panama

Parallelsachtitel: At and iconography of the ceramics of ancient Panama
1. Verfasser: Grinnell, Alan , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2024].
Umfang/Format: 426 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm.
ISBN: 0826367143
9780826367143
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Pre-Columbian Panama and its peoples
  • Dating, classification, and characteristics of the ceramic art
  • A survey of central Panamanian ceramics : the early phases (500 BCE-700 CE)
  • A survey of central Panamanian ceramics : the late phases (700-1530 CE)
  • Specialized categories of ceramics
  • Human effigies, humpbacks, and shamans
  • Animism and shamanic transformation
  • Persistent iconography : conceptual themes
  • Persistent iconography : figurative themes
  • Animals : snakes and birds
  • Iconography of bats, jaguars, monkeys, and other mammals
  • Iconography of fish, amphibians, reptiles, and invertebrates
  • Humor, emotion, and discovered faces.