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Author : Donald Alexander Mackenzie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Myths of Pre-Columbian America written by Donald Alexander Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neill J. Wallis
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ISBN 13 : 9780813062099
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book New Histories of Pre-Columbian Florida written by Neill J. Wallis and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given its pivotal location between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, its numerous islands, its abundant flora and fauna, and its subtropical climate, Florida has long been ideal for human habitation. Representing the next wave of southeastern archaeology, the essays in this book resoundingly argue that Florida is a crucial hub of archaeological inquiry. Contributors use new data to challenge well-worn models of environmental determinism and localized social contact. Themes of monumentality, human alterations of landscapes, the natural environment, ritual and mortuary practices, and coastal adaptations demonstrate the diversity, empirical richness, and broader anthropological significance of Florida's aboriginal past.
Author : Colin McEwan
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
ISBN 13 : 9780884024705
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Pre-Columbian Central America, Colombia, and Ecuador written by Colin McEwan and published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. This book was released on 2021 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pre-Columbian Central America, Colombia, and Ecuador: Toward an Integrated Approach presents current research on the prehispanic indigenous peoples in the lands between Mesoamerica and the Andes. Specialists have contributed to this illustrated book on topics ranging from historical and theoretical perspectives to reports on recent excavations.
Author : Edward Swenson
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607326426
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Constructions of Time and History in the Pre-Columbian Andes written by Edward Swenson and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constructions of Time and History in the Pre-Columbian Andes explores archaeological approaches to temporalities, social memory, and constructions of history in the pre-Columbian Andes. The authors examine a range of indigenous temporal experiences and ideologies, including astronomical, cyclical, generational, eschatological, and mythical time. This nuanced, interdisciplinary volume challenges outmoded anthropological theories while building on an emic perspective to gain greater understanding of pre-Columbian Andean cultures. Contributors to the volume rethink the dichotomy of past and present by understanding history as indigenous Andeans perceived it—recognizing the past as a palpable and living presence. We live in history, not apart from it. Within this framework time can be understood as a current rather than as distinct points, moments, periods, or horizons. The Andes offer a rich context by which to evaluate recent philosophical explorations of space and time. Using the varied materializations and ritual emplacements of time in a diverse sampling of landscapes, Constructions of Time and History in the Pre-Columbian Andes serves as a critique of archaeology’s continued and exclusive dependence on linear chronologies that obscure historically specific temporal practices and beliefs. Contributors: Tamara L. Bray, Zachary J. Chase, María José Culquichicón-Venegas, Terence D’Altroy, Giles Spence Morrow, Matthew Sayre, Francisco Seoane, Darryl Wilkinson
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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806119748
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Pre-Columbian Literatures of Mexico written by and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents ancient Mexican myths and sacred hymns, lyric poetry, rituals, drama, and various forms of prose, accompanied by informed criticism and comment. The selections come from the Aztecs, the Mayas, the Mixtecs and Zapotecs of Oaxaca, the Tarascans of Michoacan, the Otomís of central Mexico, and others. They have come down to us from inscriptions on stone, the codices, and accounts written, after the coming of Europeans, of oral traditions. It is Miguel León-Portilla’s intention "to bring to contemporary readers an understanding of the marvelous world of symbolism which is the very substance of these early literatures." That he has succeeded is obvious to every reader.
Author : John Staller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441904719
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Pre-Columbian Foodways written by John Staller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The significance of food and feasting to Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures has been extensively studied by archaeologists, anthropologists and art historians. Foodways studies have been critical to our understanding of early agriculture, political economies, and the domestication and management of plants and animals. Scholars from diverse fields have explored the symbolic complexity of food and its preparation, as well as the social importance of feasting in contemporary and historical societies. This book unites these disciplinary perspectives — from the social and biological sciences to art history and epigraphy — creating a work comprehensive in scope, which reveals our increasing understanding of the various roles of foods and cuisines in Mesoamerican cultures. The volume is organized thematically into three sections. Part 1 gives an overview of food and feasting practices as well as ancient economies in Mesoamerica. Part 2 details ethnographic, epigraphic and isotopic evidence of these practices. Finally, Part 3 presents the metaphoric value of food in Mesoamerican symbolism, ritual, and mythology. The resulting volume provides a thorough, interdisciplinary resource for understanding, food, feasting, and cultural practices in Mesoamerica.
Author : Charles C. Mann
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307265722
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book 1493 written by Charles C. Mann and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning of an extraordinary exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia and the Americas.
Author : Hasso Von Winning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780810947511
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America written by Hasso Von Winning and published by . This book was released on 196? with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenn Hirth
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
ISBN 13 : 9780884023869
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (238 download)
Download or read book Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World written by Kenn Hirth and published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines the structure, scale and complexity of economic systems in the pre-Hispanic Americas, with a focus on the central highlands of Mexico, the Maya Lowlands and the central Andes.
Author : Terry L. Jones
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 0759120064
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)
Download or read book Polynesians in America written by Terry L. Jones and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2011-01-16 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The possibility that Polynesian seafarers made landfall and interacted with the native people of the New World before Columbus has been the topic of academic discussion for well over a century, although American archaeologists have considered the idea verboten since the 1970s. Fresh discoveries made with the aid of new technologies along with re-evaluation of longstanding but often-ignored evidence provide a stronger case than ever before for multiple prehistoric Polynesian landfalls. This book reviews the debate, evaluates theoretical trends that have discouraged consideration of trans-oceanic contacts, summarizes the historic evidence and supplements it with recent archaeological, linguistic, botanical, and physical anthropological findings. Written by leading experts in their fields, this is a must-have volume for archaeologists, historians, anthropologists and anyone else interested in the remarkable long-distance voyages made by Polynesians. The combined evidence is used to argue that that Polynesians almost certainly made landfall in southern South America on the coast of Chile, in northern South America in the vicinity of the Gulf of Guayaquil, and on the coast of southern California in North America.
Author : Colin McEwan
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
ISBN 13 : 9780884024699
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Pre-Columbian Art from Central America and Colombia at Dumbarton Oaks written by Colin McEwan and published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. This book was released on 2021 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final installment in the series of catalogues of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection, Pre-Columbian Art from Central America and Colombia at Dumbarton Oaks examines a comprehensive collection of jade and gold objects from Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia. Full color photographs illustrate the breathtaking works of Indigenous artists and artisans.
Author : Jean Paul Barbier
Publisher : Skira
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Guide to Pre-Columbian Art written by Jean Paul Barbier and published by Skira. This book was released on 1998 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide provides a closer view of the pre-Hispanic world, analysing the origins and decline of the greatest ancient American civilisations.
Author : Maria Teresa Uriarte
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0789210452
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Pre-Columbian Architecture in Mesoamerica written by Maria Teresa Uriarte and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative and magnificently illustrated survey of Mesoamerican architecture from pre-Olmec times to the Spanish conquest. Pre-Columbian Architecture in Mesoamerica is destined to become a standard reference for the serious student and an intellectual delight for the interested amateur. This authoritative yet accessible study begins with an overview of the aesthetics, meanings, functions, and techniques of Mesoamerican architecture, and then proceeds to survey the historical development of the builder's art in each of the region's cultural areas. As readers travel from the the Maya heartland of Guatemala and the Yucatan to the Aztec stronghold of the Valley of Mexico, and all the way to the northern hinterlands of Mesoamerica, they will gain an appreciation of both the unity and the diversity of the region's architecture. The concluding chapter is devoted to the descriptions of architecture that have survived in Mayan and Aztec texts; it includes a unique and valuable glossary of the relevant glyphs. The main text is illustrated with color photographs of the spectacular remains of pyramids, palaces, and plazas, while a scholarly appendix presents maps, plans, and drawings of the most important sites and structures.
Author : Anni Albers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Pre-Columbian Mexican Miniatures written by Anni Albers and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Braun
Publisher : Abradale Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pre-Columbian Art and the Post-Columbian World written by Barbara Braun and published by Abradale Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an in-depth look at pre-Columbian sources of modern art.
Author : Museo del Barrio (New York, N.Y.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Taíno written by Museo del Barrio (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized by El Museo del Barrio in New York to coincide with a major exhibition, this is the first comprehensive English-language publication on the fascinating legacy of Taiacute;no art and culture. Showcasing over one hundred rare and beautiful ceremonial and domestic artworks and individual masterpieces of this ancient culture -- produced in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Haiti, and the Bahamas between A.D. 1200 and 1500 --Taiacute;noincludes examples of finely detailed and polished sculptures carved in wood, precious ornaments of shell and bone, and ceramics decorated with animals, birds, and intricate geometric motifs. The contributors include ten of the foremost scholars of pre-Columbian culture and art, and an appendix features writings from Spanish explorers who had contact with the Taiacute;no. Of Arawak descent, the Taiacute;no -- whose ancestors migrated to the Caribbean from the Amazon Basin in South America during the sixth century -- were the first people encountered by Christopher Columbus. Although they ceased to exist as an autonomous society within sixty years of the arrival of Spanish colonizers, the Taiacute;no -- skilled agriculturists and navigators and accomplished weavers, potters, and carvers -- developed a complex political, religious, and social system, and made a substantial contribution to the biological, cultural, and linguistic makeup of large areas of the Caribbean. To this date, Caribbean communities in the Antilles and in New York and other large American cities exhibit the survival of Taiacute;no practices in their worldviews, religious beliefs, language, music, and food.
Author : Philip Phillips
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780873657952
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings written by Philip Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
