Painting the skin : pigments on bodies and codices in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors:	Dupey García, Elodie (Editor), Vázquez de Agredos Pascual, M. Luisa (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2018]
Subjects:	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 Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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.