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Ceramics of Ancient America
Multidisciplinary Approaches
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Ceramics of Ancient America
Multidisciplinary Approaches
About this book
This is the first volume to bring together archaeology, anthropology, and art history in the analysis of pre-Columbian pottery. While previous research on ceramic artifacts has been divided by these three disciplines, this volume shows how integrating these approaches provides new understandings of many different aspects of Ancient American societies.
Contributors from a variety of backgrounds in these fields explore what ceramics can reveal about ancient social dynamics, trade, ritual, politics, innovation, iconography, and regional styles. Essays identify supernatural and humanistic beliefs through formal analysis of Lower Mississippi Valley "Great Serpent" effigy vessels and Ecuadorian depictions of the human figure. They discuss the cultural identity conveyed by imagery such as Andean head motifs, and they analyze symmetry in designs from locations including the American Southwest. Chapters also take diachronic approaches—methods that track change over time—to ceramics from Mexico's Tarascan State and the Valley of Oaxaca, as well as from Maya and Toltec societies.
This volume provides a much-needed multidisciplinary synthesis of current scholarship on Ancient American ceramics. It is a model of how different research perspectives can together illuminate the relationship between these material artifacts and their broader human culture.
Contributors: | Dean Arnold | George J. Bey III | Michael Carrasco | David Dye | James Farmer | Gary Feinman | Amy Hirshman | Yumi Park Huntington | Johanna Minich | Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski | Jeff Price | Sarahh Scher | Dorothy Washburn | Robert F. Wald
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Ceramics of Ancient America
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- 1. A New Approach to Pre-Columbian Pottery: Introduction to the Volume
- PART I. REVEALING NATURAL AND SUPERNATURAL CONCEPTS THROUGH FORMAL ANALYSIS
- PART II. INVESTIGATING IDENTITY AND SOCIAL NARRATIVE THROUGH ICONOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS AND INTERTEXTUALITY
- PART III. SYMMETRY PATTERNS AND THEIR SOCIAL DIMENSIONS
- PART IV. CHARTING INNOVATION THROUGH DIACHRONIC STUDIES
- List of Contributors
- Index