عنوان

Reconsidering Olmec visual culture :

شابک

0292728522 (cloth : alk. paper)

شابک

9780292728523 (cloth : alk. paper)

شابک اشتباه

0292735499 (e-book)

شابک اشتباه

9780292735491 (e-book)

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

Reconsidering Olmec visual culture :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

the unborn, women, and creation /

نام نخستين پديدآور

by Carolyn E. Tate

وضعيت ويراست

1st ed

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Austin :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Texas Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2012

تاريخ

1203

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xvii, 339 p. :

ساير جزييات

ill., plans ;

ابعاد

29 cm

عنوان فروست

The William and Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the western hemisphere

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

Rediscovering women and gestation in Olmec visual culture. A cradle of civilization ; Mesoamerica and its visual culture ; Early interpretations of the first known Olmec sculptures ; New questions in Olmec studies ; Is gender or gestation the compelling issue? ; How the book develops : content and methodologies -- The tale of the were-jaguar. The birth of the were-jaguar ; One were jaguar or many deities? ; The first attempt to stay the were-jaguar ; The were-jaguar as a shamanic alter ego ; Monstrous congenital anomalies ; Pantheons of deities or symbols of vital forces? ; Shamanism in an ecological context ; The rebirth of the maize deity ; Signs of life -- The sowing and dawning of the human-maize seed. Images of the unborn ; The formative Mesoamerican embryo and its matrix of associations ; Ethnographic analogies ; Hollow babies ; A contemporary baby in a boat : Niñopa ; Conclusions about embryos, fetuses, and babies -- Tracking gender, gestation, and narrativity through the early formative. The Archaic Period, 10,000 to 2000 BC : the beginning of visual symbols ; The Initial Formative, circe 1900 to 1400 BC ; The Early Formative, circa 1400-900 BC ; Fluctuations in visual culture during the Initial and Early Formative Periods ; Discussion: Maize technology I : fermentation ; Discussion: Maize technology II: nixtamalization -- La Venta's buried offerings : women and other revelations. Topography and sources of stone ; Discovery, excavation, and chronology of La Venta ; Surveying La Venta's visual culture through time ; Women and the unborn return to prominence -- Female water and earth supernaturals : the massive offerings, mosaic pavements, and mixe "work of the earth." Why construct massive offerings? ; Mixe beliefs in earth, water, and thunder supernormal entities ; La Venta's mosaic pavements ; Offerings inseminating the flowering earth ; Massive offerings : contained water ; Mixe healers, midwives, and rituals, and their Olmec antecedents ; Female shamans ; The mosaic pavements as conventionalized symbols ; Politics, protection, and healing -- A processional visual narrative at La venta. Previous investigations of Olmec creation narratives ; Patterns for the distribution of monumental sculptures ; A processional visual narrative -- La Venta's creation and origins narrative. An approach to visual narratives from preliterate societies ; The narrative stations (Station one: A womb with three fetuses ; Station two: A quincunx of thrones ; Station three: The dawning of human-maize ; Station four: The female sources of life : earth and water ; Station five: The bodiless heads ; Station six: The phallic column) ; Inserting politics into the creation and origins narrative ; Alternative reading orders ; Conclusions and questions -- A scattering of seeds. Assessing arguments for some major points ; Modes of communication ; Where did Olmec ideas go? ; Asking and answering the fundamental questions -- Appendix 1. La Venta monuments by format -- Appendix 2. Comparison of Mesoamerican creation and origins narratives -- Appendix 3. Shape-shifters and werewolves to were-jaguars : a brief chronology

بدون عنوان

0

عنوان

Reconsidering Olmec visual culture.

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

9780292735491

موضوع مستند نشده

Indian women in art

موضوع مستند نشده

Olmec art

موضوع مستند نشده

Olmec mythology

موضوع مستند نشده

Olmec sculpture

موضوع مستند نشده

La Venta Site (Mexico)

بدون عنوان

0

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Tate, Carolyn Elaine

تاريخ عمليات

20120223133150.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y