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)
"In this book, Julia Guernsey examines the relationship between human figuration, fragmentation, bodily divisibility, personhood, and community in ancient Mesoamerica [roughly 2000 BC to AD 250]. Contending that representation of the human body in the pre-classic period graduall…
"Identities of power and place, as expressed in paintings from the periods before and after the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica, are the subject of this book of case studies from Central Mexico, Oaxaca, and the Maya area. These sophisticated, skillfully rendered images occur wit…
Language-contact phenomena in Mesoamerica and adjacent regions present an exciting field for research that has the potential to significantly contribute to our understanding of language contact and the role that it plays in language change. This volume presents and analyzes fres…
"This comprehensive book of mythologies gathers eighty articles from distinguished scholars covering a fascinating variety of themes and topics. The articles offer illuminating examples of the working of myth in cultures past and present- how we create, use, and are guided by sy…
"These selected essays revisit long-standing questions regarding the nature of the relationship between Chichen Itza and Tula. The contributors to this volume bring their background in archaeology, art history, anthropology, epigraphy, and ethnohistory to elucidate persistent an…
"These selected essays revisit long-standing questions regarding the nature of the relationship between Chichen Itza and Tula. The contributors to this volume bring their background in archaeology, art history, anthropology, epigraphy, and ethnohistory to elucidate persistent an…
