Painting the skin pigments on bodies and codices in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica Dupey García, Elodie editor. Vázquez de Agredos Pascual, M. Luisa editor. ProQuest (Firm) text bibliography Electronic books. azu 2018 monographic eng remote 1 online resource. Foreword: Skin-deep / Stephen Houston -- Introduction: Colors and the skin in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica / Élodie Dupey García and María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual -- Part I. Coloring alive and dead bodies : materiality and significance of Mesoamerican corporal painting. Painting the skin in ancient Mesoamerica / María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual -- Materiality and meaning of medicinal body colors in Teotihuacan / María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual [and others] -- Painting the dead in the northern Maya lowlands / Vera Tiesler, Kadwin Pérez López, and Patricia Quintana Owen -- Body colors and aromatics in Maya funerary rites / María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual [and others] -- Body color and body adornment at Chichén Itzá / Virginia E. Miller -- The yellow women : naked skin, everyday cosmetics, and ritual body painting in postclassic Nahua society / Élodie Dupey García -- The colors of the desert : ritual and aesthetic uses of pigments and colorants by the Guachichil of northern Mexico / Olivia Kindl -- Part II. Illuminating animal and vegetal skins : chromatic palettes and meaning in pre-Columbian codices -- Coloring materials, technological practices, and painting traditions : cultural and historical implications of nondestructive chemical analyses of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican codices / Davide Domenici [and others] -- The study of color in the Colombino Codex : an experimental approach / Tatiana Falcón -- Preliminary investigation on the Codex Borbonicus : macroscopic examination and coloring materials characterization / Fabien Pottier [and others] -- Convergence and difference in the Borgia Group chromatic palettes / Élodie Dupey García and María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual -- Making and using colors in the manufacture of Nahua codices : aesthetic standards, symbolic purposes / Élodie Dupey García -- Skin of walls : plaster practices across Maya books, buildings, and people / Franco D. Rossi -- Epilogue: The painted skin, a cultural and sensorial legacy / María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual and Élodie Dupey García. edited by Élodie Dupey García and María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-mx--- Cosmetics Mexico History To 1500 Indians of Mexico Social life and customs Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian) Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mexican History To 1500 To 1500 fast GT2341.M6 P35 2018 391.6/3097201 (DLC) 2018019551 9780816539093 081653909X 9780816538447 0816538441 2018019551 22573/ctvgtqdx8 JSTOR https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action?docID=5770804 NhCcYBP 181021 20221130035755.1 in00004067652