Human Figuration and Fragmentation in Preclassic Mesoamerica: From Figurines to Sculpture

ISBN-13: 9781108478991 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 278 str.

Julia Guernsey

Opis

The arguments assembled in this book have ramifications not only for scholars working in Mesoamerica but anyone interested more generally in human representation and its significance. It is the first book to fully explore, for Mesoamerica, the relationship between human figuration, fragmentation, bodily divisibility, personhood, and community.

Spis treści

1. Preclassic figuration: epistemological premises and problems; 2. Monumental sculpture and the human form during the Early and Middle Preclassic periods; 3. Early and Middle Preclassic figuration in clay; 4. Figurines at Middle Preclassic La Blanca; 5. Figurines, fragmentation, and social ties; 6. Changing discourses of human representation in Late Preclassic Mesoamerica; 7. High culture and human representation in Late preclassic Mesoamerica.