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A Pre-Columbian World
A Pre-Columbian World
edited by Jeffrey Quilter and Mary Miller contributions by Simon Martin, Ramiro Matos Mendieta, Polly Schaafsma, Karl A. Taube, Anna Blume, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Warren R. DeBoer, Tom D. Dillehay, Enrique Florescano, Robert L. Hall and Mary W. Helms
Harvard University Press, 2006 Cloth: 978-0-88402-315-9 Library of Congress Classification E55.5.P73 2006 Dewey Decimal Classification 970.01
ABOUT THIS BOOK | REVIEWS
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The articles in this book conceptualize the ancient New World through new and varied approaches, from iconography to the history of anthropology. The many essays in this volume explore the vast vista of the Pre-Columbian world, including representations of history, memory, and knowledge in Andean visual imagery and Pre-Columbian narrative, the ideology of rain making, and Maya beliefs about animal transformations.
REVIEWS
These 10 thought-provoking articles provide a broad, generalist approach to the interpretation of anthropological, historical, and art historical subjects and develop a unitary vision of the pre-Columbian past...A must read for students and scholars interested in the underlying similarities within and between pre-Columbian societies in the Americas.
-- J.B. Richardson III Choice