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Women's ritual in formative Oaxaca : figurine-making, divination, death, and the ancestors /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marcus, Joyce
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Includes summary in Spanish.
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, 1998.
Series:Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan ; no. 33.
Prehistory and human ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca ; v. 11.
Subjects:
Zapotec women > Rites and ceremonies.
Zapotec women > Religion.
Zapotec pottery > Mexico > Oaxaca Valley > Themes, motives.
Pottery figures > Mexico > Oaxaca Valley > Themes, motives.
Ancestor worship > Mexico > Oaxaca Valley.
Fertility, Human, in art.
Oaxaca Valley (Mexico) > Antiquities.
San José Mogote (Mexico) > Antiquities.
Description
Physical Description:xxiv, 333 pages : illustrations (1 color), map ; 28 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-326) and index.
ISBN:0915703483 (acidfree paperback)