Ritual and Power in Stone : : The Performance of Rulership in Mesoamerican Izapan Style Art / / Julia Guernsey.
The ancient Mesoamerican city of Izapa in Chiapas, Mexico, is renowned for its extensive collection of elaborate stone stelae and altars, which were carved during the Late Preclassic period (300 BC-AD 250). Many of these monuments depict kings garbed in the costume and persona of a bird, a well-know...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- ONE An Introduction to the Late Preclassic Period
- TWO The site of Izapa in context
- THREE A Historiography of Izapa and the Izapan Style
- FOUR Part of a Continuum: Supernatural Communication in Late Preclassic Izapan Style Art
- FIVE The Performance of Rulership: Avian Transformation in Izapan Style Monuments
- SIX Monuments in Context
- SEVEN Beyond Ritual: Macaws, Men, and Matrices of Exchange
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index