Anthropomorphic imagery in the Mesoamerican highlands : gods, ancestors, and human beings /
Mexican, North American and European researchers explore the meanings and functions of two-and three-dimensional human representations in pre-Columbian communities of Mexican highlands. They demonstrate the potential of anthropomorphic imagery to elucidate personhood, conceptions of the body and the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boulder :
University Press of Colorado,
[2020]
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| Summary: | Mexican, North American and European researchers explore the meanings and functions of two-and three-dimensional human representations in pre-Columbian communities of Mexican highlands. They demonstrate the potential of anthropomorphic imagery to elucidate personhood, conceptions of the body and the relationship to other entities, nature, and the cosmos. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 403 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781607329947 1607329948 |