Mesoamerican figurines : small-scale indices of large-scale social phenomena /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting, Braunstein Symposium
Other Authors: Halperin, Christina T.
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2009]
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ISBN:9780813033303 (alk. paper)
0813033306 (alk. paper)
Table of Contents:
  • Approaching Mesoamerican figurines / Katherine A. Faust and Christina T. Halperin
  • Rethinking figurines / Joyce Marcus
  • Honduran figurines and whistles in social context: production, use, and meaning in the UlĂșa Valley / Jeanne Lopiparo and Julia A. Hendon
  • Formative period Gulf Coast ceramic figurines: the key to identifying sex, gender, and age groups in Gulf Coast Olmec imagery / Billie J. A. Follensbee
  • Identity, gender, and power: representational juxtapositions in early formative figurines from Oaxaca, Mexico / Jeffrey P. Blomster
  • Early Olmec figurines from two regions: style as cultural imperative / David Cheetham
  • Crafting the body beautiful: performing social identity at Santa Isabel, Nicaragua / Geoffrey G. McCafferty and Sharisse D. McCafferty
  • New fire figurines and the iconography of penitence in Huastec art / Katherine A. Faust
  • The beautiful, the bad, and the ugly: aesthetics and morality in Maya figurines / Rhonda Taube and Karl Taube
  • The weeping baby and the Nauha corn spirit: the human body as key symbol in the Huasteca Veracruzana, Mexico / Alan R. Sandstrom
  • Alien bodies, everyday people, and hollow spaces: embodiment, figurines, and social discourse in postclassic Mexico / Elizabeth M. Brumfiel and Lisa Overholtzer
  • Sex in the city: a comparison of Aztec ceramic figurines to Copal figurines from the Templo Mayor / Cecelia F. Klein and Naoli Victoria Lona
  • Figurines as bearers of and burdens in late classic Maya state / Christina T. Halperin
  • Making a world of their own: Mesoamerican figurines and Mesoamerican figurine analysis / Rosemary A. Joyce.