The Tajin Totonac
Author | : Isabel Truesdell Kelly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Tajín (Mexico) |
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Author | : Isabel Truesdell Kelly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Tajín (Mexico) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Isabel Truesdell Kelly |
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Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Tajín (Mexico) |
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Author | : Isabel Kelly |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1952 |
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Author | : Isabel Truesdell Kelly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 764 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
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Prepared in cooperation with the U.S. Dept. of State as a project of the Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific and Cultural Cooperation.
Author | : Rex Koontz |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0292779887 |
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.
Author | : Ellen S. Spinden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1933 |
Genre | : Tajín (Mexico) |
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Author | : Smithsonian Institution. Institute of Social Anthropology |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
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Author | : Robert Wauchope |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 992 |
Release | : 2015-01-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1477306714 |
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.
Author | : Frances F. Berdan |
Publisher | : Dumbarton Oaks |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780884022114 |
Papers from the 1986 Summer Seminar, "Empire, Province, and Village in Aztec History."
Author | : Emilio Kourí |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780804739399 |
This book is a history of the conflict-ridden privatization of communal land in the pueblo of Papantla, a Mexican Indian village transformed by the fast growth of vanilla production and exports in the second half of the 19th century.