Author: Isabel Truesdell Kelly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tajín (Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Tajin Totonac: History, subsistence, shelter and technology
Author: Isabel Truesdell Kelly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tajín (Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tajín (Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Tajin Totonac
The Tajin Totonac
Author: Isabel Truesdell Kelly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tajín (Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tajín (Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Tajin Totonac
Author: Isabel Truesdell Kelly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Prepared in cooperation with the U.S. Dept. of State as a project of the Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific and Cultural Cooperation.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Prepared in cooperation with the U.S. Dept. of State as a project of the Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific and Cultural Cooperation.
The Tajin Totonac
Author: Isabel Truesdell Kelly
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents
Author: Rex Koontz
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292779887
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
El Tajín, an ancient Mesoamerican capital in Veracruz, Mexico, has long been admired for its stunning pyramids and ballcourts decorated with extensive sculptural programs. Yet the city's singularity as the only center in the region with such a wealth of sculpture and fine architecture has hindered attempts to place it more firmly in the context of Mesoamerican history. In Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents, Rex Koontz undertakes the first extensive treatment of El Tajín's iconography in over thirty years, allowing us to view its imagery in the broader Mesoamerican context of rising capitals and new elites during a period of fundamental historical transformations. Koontz focuses on three major architectural features—the Pyramid of the Niches/Central Plaza ensemble, the South Ballcourt, and the Mound of the Building Columns complex—and investigates the meanings of their sculpture and how these meanings would have been experienced by specific audiences. Koontz finds that the iconography of El Tajín reveals much about how motifs and elite rites growing out of the Classic period were transmitted to later Mesoamerican peoples as the cultures centered on Teotihuacan and the Maya became the myriad city-states of the Early Postclassic period. By reexamining the iconography of sculptures long in the record, as well as introducing important new monuments and contexts, Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents clearly demonstrates El Tajín's numerous iconographic connections with other areas of Mesoamerica, while also exploring its roots in an indigenous Gulf lowlands culture whose outlines are only now emerging. At the same time, it begins to uncover a largely ignored regional artistic culture of which Tajín is the crowning achievement.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292779887
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
El Tajín, an ancient Mesoamerican capital in Veracruz, Mexico, has long been admired for its stunning pyramids and ballcourts decorated with extensive sculptural programs. Yet the city's singularity as the only center in the region with such a wealth of sculpture and fine architecture has hindered attempts to place it more firmly in the context of Mesoamerican history. In Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents, Rex Koontz undertakes the first extensive treatment of El Tajín's iconography in over thirty years, allowing us to view its imagery in the broader Mesoamerican context of rising capitals and new elites during a period of fundamental historical transformations. Koontz focuses on three major architectural features—the Pyramid of the Niches/Central Plaza ensemble, the South Ballcourt, and the Mound of the Building Columns complex—and investigates the meanings of their sculpture and how these meanings would have been experienced by specific audiences. Koontz finds that the iconography of El Tajín reveals much about how motifs and elite rites growing out of the Classic period were transmitted to later Mesoamerican peoples as the cultures centered on Teotihuacan and the Maya became the myriad city-states of the Early Postclassic period. By reexamining the iconography of sculptures long in the record, as well as introducing important new monuments and contexts, Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents clearly demonstrates El Tajín's numerous iconographic connections with other areas of Mesoamerica, while also exploring its roots in an indigenous Gulf lowlands culture whose outlines are only now emerging. At the same time, it begins to uncover a largely ignored regional artistic culture of which Tajín is the crowning achievement.
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Author: Smithsonian Institution. Institute of Social Anthropology
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The Place of Tajin in Totonac Archaeology
Author: Ellen S. Spinden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tajín (Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tajín (Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 7 and 8
Author: Robert Wauchope
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477306714
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Ethnology comprises the seventh and eighth volumes in the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909–1979). The editor of the Ethnology volumes is Evon Z. Vogt (1918–2004), Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social Relations, Harvard University. These two books contain forty-three articles, all written by authorities in their field, on the ethnology of the Maya region, the southern Mexican highlands and adjacent regions, the central Mexican highlands, western Mexico, and northwest Mexico. Among the topics described for each group of Indians are the history of ethnological investigations, cultural and linguistic distributions, major postcontact events, population, subsistence systems and food patterns, settlement patterns, technology, economy, social organization, religion and world view, aesthetic and recreational patterns, life cycle and personality development, and annual cycle of life. The volumes are illustrated with photographs and drawings of contemporary and early historical scenes of native Indian life in Mexico and Central America. The Handbook of Middle American Indians was assembled and edited at the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University with the assistance of grants from the National Science Foundation and under the sponsorship of the National Research Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477306714
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Ethnology comprises the seventh and eighth volumes in the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909–1979). The editor of the Ethnology volumes is Evon Z. Vogt (1918–2004), Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social Relations, Harvard University. These two books contain forty-three articles, all written by authorities in their field, on the ethnology of the Maya region, the southern Mexican highlands and adjacent regions, the central Mexican highlands, western Mexico, and northwest Mexico. Among the topics described for each group of Indians are the history of ethnological investigations, cultural and linguistic distributions, major postcontact events, population, subsistence systems and food patterns, settlement patterns, technology, economy, social organization, religion and world view, aesthetic and recreational patterns, life cycle and personality development, and annual cycle of life. The volumes are illustrated with photographs and drawings of contemporary and early historical scenes of native Indian life in Mexico and Central America. The Handbook of Middle American Indians was assembled and edited at the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University with the assistance of grants from the National Science Foundation and under the sponsorship of the National Research Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.
Aztec Imperial Strategies
Author: Frances F. Berdan
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884022114
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Papers from the 1986 Summer Seminar, "Empire, Province, and Village in Aztec History."
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884022114
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Papers from the 1986 Summer Seminar, "Empire, Province, and Village in Aztec History."