This book will explore past, current, and future policies and trends concerning the sale of antiquities from Mesoamerica. Having outlined gaps in our knowledge, this book seeks to identify the substantive steps that the academic community can take toward affecting transparency, …
"This book offers an overview of iconographic methods and their application to archaeological analysis. It offers a truly interdisciplinary approach that draws equally from art history and anthropology. Vernon James Knight, Jr., begins with a historigraphical overview, addressin…
Before Cortés, sculpture of Middle America: a centennial exhibition at the Metropolitan Museu…
by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress), Hoving, Thomas, Easby, Elizabeth Kennedy, Scott, John F., (John Fredrik), Easby, Dudley T., Jr.,, (Dudley Tate)
Explores the indigenous arts of the U.S. and Canada from the early pre-Columbian period to the present day, stressing the conceptual and iconographic continuities over five centuries and across an immensely diverse range of regions.
Explores the indigenous arts of the U.S. and Canada from the early pre-Columbian period to the present day, stressing the conceptual and iconographic continuities over five centuries and across an immensely diverse range of regions.
"'Mexican, North American, and European researchers explore the meanings and functions of two-and three-dimensional human representations in pre-Columbian communities of Mexican highlands. They demonstrate the potential of anthropomorphic imagery to elucidate personhood, concept…
"Creating Aztlán interrogates the important role of Aztlán in Chicano and Indigenous art and culture. Using the idea that lowriding is an Indigenous way of being, author Dylan A.T. Miner (Métis) discusses the multiple roles that Aztlán has played at various moments in time, enga…