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Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Total Pages : 28 pages
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Download or read book Ancient Peruvian Mantles, 300 B.C. - A.D. 200 written by and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Ancient Peruvian Mantles, 300 B.C.-A.D. 200 written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth P. Benson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292757956
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru written by Elizabeth P. Benson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Propitiating the supernatural forces that could grant bountiful crops or wipe out whole villages through natural disasters was a sacred duty in ancient Peruvian societies, as in many premodern cultures. Ritual sacrifices were considered necessary for this propitiation and for maintaining a proper reciprocal relationship between humans and the supernatural world. The essays in this book examine the archaeological evidence for ancient Peruvian sacrificial offerings of human beings, animals, and objects, as well as the cultural contexts in which the offerings occurred, from around 2500 B.C. until Inca times just before the Spanish Conquest. Major contributions come from the recent archaeological fieldwork of Steve Bourget, Anita Cook, and Alana Cordy-Collins, as well as from John Verano's laboratory work on skeletal material from recent excavations. Mary Frame, who is a weaver as well as a scholar, offers rich new interpretations of Paracas burial garments, and Donald Proulx presents a fresh view of the nature of Nasca warfare. Elizabeth Benson's essay provides a summary of sacrificial practices.
Author : Helaine Silverman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1461505976
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Andean Archaeology II written by Helaine Silverman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origins and development of civilization are vital components to the understanding of the cultural processes that create human societies. Comparing and contrasting the evolutionary sequences from different civilizations is one approach to discovering their unique development. One area for comparison is in the Central Andes where several societies remained in isolation without a written language. As a direct result, the only resource to understand these societies is their material artifacts. In this second volume, the focus is on the art and landscape remains and what they uncover about societies of the Central Andes region. The ancient art and landscape, revealing the range and richness of the societies of the area significantly shaped the development of Andean archaeology. This work includes discussions on: - pottery and textiles; - iconography and symbols; - ideology; - geoglyphs and rock art. This volume will be of interest to Andean archaeologists, cultural and historical anthropologists, material archaeologists and Latin American historians.
Author : Helaine Silverman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387749071
Total Pages : 1172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (877 download)
Download or read book Handbook of South American Archaeology written by Helaine Silverman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-04-06 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the contributions of South American archaeology to the larger field of world archaeology have been inadequately recognized. If so, this is probably because there have been relatively few archaeologists working in South America outside of Peru and recent advances in knowledge in other parts of the continent are only beginning to enter larger archaeological discourse. Many ideas of and about South American archaeology held by scholars from outside the area are going to change irrevocably with the appearance of the present volume. Not only does the Handbook of South American Archaeology (HSAA) provide immense and broad information about ancient South America, the volume also showcases the contributions made by South Americans to social theory. Moreover, one of the merits of this volume is that about half the authors (30) are South Americans, and the bibliographies in their chapters will be especially useful guides to Spanish and Portuguese literature as well as to the latest research. It is inevitable that the HSAA will be compared with the multi-volume Handbook of South American Indians (HSAI), with its detailed descriptions of indigenous peoples of South America, that was organized and edited by Julian Steward. Although there are heroic archaeological essays in the HSAI, by the likes of Junius Bird, Gordon Willey, John Rowe, and John Murra, Steward states frankly in his introduction to Volume Two that “arch- ology is included by way of background” to the ethnographic chapters.
Author : Michael Hitchcock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351740148
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Souvenirs written by Michael Hitchcock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: Souvenirs, broadly conceived, are generally thought to be the material counterpart of travels, events, relationships and memories of all kinds. The material items classed as souvenirs discussed in this text have memorial functions, usually connected with the owner's travels. But not all of the items are souvenirs of tourism; they are also souvenirs of other past phenomena, such as political events (suffragettes), colonial history (India), former artistic pre-eminence (Awaji Ningyo puppetry) or former ways of life (South American ceramic archaisms). The authors do not necessarily focus on material souvenirs in their memorial function as prompters of memory. They also use their case studies as starting points for the discussion of many interesting contemporary phenomena, such as cottage industries for economic development in Mexico and Ainu, as devices to invigorate or maintain artistic practices, as emblems of cultural conformity (Surrealists) or as symbolic weapons in national and international political arguments. A key focus of many of the chapters is the question of meaning: what is the meaning of any particular souvenir or collection, and for whom does it bear that meaning?
Author : Carol Miller
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 154342967X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (434 download)
Download or read book The Coca Box written by Carol Miller and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-06-20 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny and fanciful, this is a book about a Coca Box, and an unlikely travel foursome exploring the art and archaeology of Peru. Except that one member of the team likes to collect Precolumbian pottery. If trafficking in archaeological materials is unlawful, it seems to matter little, and in the end it appears her efforts were futile. Everything she bought was fake. Or was it? We may never know. Meantime we bounce over desert tracks along Perus North Coast, through the high canyons of the Central Andes, and across the windswept Altiplano where snow-capped volcanoes pierce the bright blue sky. An enchanting book.
Author : Andrew David Turner
Publisher : BAR International Series
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Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Sex, Metaphor, and Ideology in Moche Pottery of Ancient Peru written by Andrew David Turner and published by BAR International Series. This book was released on 2015 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 41
Author : Dorothy Koster Washburn
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295983660
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (836 download)
Download or read book Symmetry Comes of Age written by Dorothy Koster Washburn and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two volumes together offer readers a new window into the communicative importance of design."--Jacket.
Author : Helmut Schindler
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Total Pages : 396 pages
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Download or read book The Norbert Mayrock art collection from ancient Peru written by Helmut Schindler and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joanne Pillsbury
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606065483
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Golden Kingdoms written by Joanne Pillsbury and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring more than three hundred works of art, many rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century. Presenting spectacular works from recent excavations in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico, this exhibition focuses on specific places and times—crucibles of innovation—where artistic exchange, rivalry, and creativity led to the production of some of the greatest works of art known from the ancient Americas. The book and exhibition explore not only artistic practices but also the historical, cultural, social, and political conditions in which luxury arts were produced and circulated, alongside their religious meanings and ritual functions. Golden Kingdoms creates new understandings of ancient American art through a thematic exploration of indigenous ideas of value and luxury. Central to the book is the idea of the exchange of materials and ideas across regions and across time: works of great value would often be transported over long distances, or passed down over generations, in both cases attracting new audiences and inspiring new artists. The idea of exchange is at the intellectual heart of this volume, researched and written by twenty scholars based in the United States and Latin America.
Author : Heidi King
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0300169795
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Peruvian Featherworks written by Heidi King and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides an in-depth and authoritative review of feeatherworking traditions in ancient Peru. The book includes a discussion of important recent discoveries, considerations of iconography, and basic technical characteristics of feather works.
Author : Alan Reed Sawyer
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Total Pages : 126 pages
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Download or read book Mastercraftsmen of Ancient Peru written by Alan Reed Sawyer and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Reed Sawyer
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870990373
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Ancient Peruvian Ceramics written by Alan Reed Sawyer and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1966 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The World of Tribal Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elena Phipps
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588393615
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Cochineal Red written by Elena Phipps and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2010 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From antiquity to the present day, color has been embedded with cultural meaning. Associated with blood, fire, fertility, and life force, the color red has always been extremely difficult to achieve and thus highly prized." "This book discusses the origin of the red colorant derived from the insect cochineal, its early use in Precolumbian ritual textiles from Mexico and Peru, and the spread of the American dyestuff through cultural interchange following the Spanish discovery and conquest of the New World in the 16th century. Drawing on examples from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, it documents the use of this red-colored treasure in several media and throughout the world.
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Total Pages : 168 pages
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Download or read book Ethnoarts Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
