Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture : : The Unborn, Women, and Creation / / Carolyn E. Tate.
Recently, scholars of Olmec visual culture have identified symbols for umbilical cords, bundles, and cave-wombs, as well as a significant number of women portrayed on monuments and as figurines. In this groundbreaking study, Carolyn Tate demonstrates that these subjects were part of a major emphasis...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (359 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Rediscovering Women and Gestation in Olmec Visual Culture
- Chapter 2 The Tale of the Were-Jaguar
- Chapter 3 The Sowing and Dawning of the Human-Maize Seed
- Chapter 4 Tracking Gender, Gestation, and Narrativity Through the Early Formative
- Chapter 5 La Venta’s Buried Offerings Women and Other Revelations
- Chapter 6 Female Water and Earth Supernaturals The Massive Off erings, Mosaic Pavements, and Mixe “Work of the Earth”
- Chapter 7 A Processional Visual Narrative at La Venta
- Chapter 8 La Venta’s Creation and Origins Narrative
- Chapter 9 A Scattering of Seeds
- 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index