Art and the Senses in Ancient America

Materiality and Meaning

María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual, Ana García Barrios, Megan E. O'Neil, Megan E. O’Neil

• Editorial: Archaeopress Archaeology
• Año: 2024
• ISBN del libro electrónico:
  9781803278124
• Categoría: Historia

Art and the Senses in Ancient America addresses three essential questions. The first is the materiality of the arts in pre-Columbian America, considering different cultures of both ancient Mesoamerica and the Andean area. In several of its chapters, the importance of physicochemical studies applied to the study of the art of past cultures is evident, because they offer results on the raw materials that were used, which were not always referenced in written or visual sources. The volume approaches art not only from its tangible dimension, but also from its immaterial one, as demonstrated by chapters focused on the culinary, aromatic and musical arts, which appeal to the senses of taste, smell and hearing. This brings us to the second dimension under discussion: the close relationship between the materiality of the arts and their sociocultural meanings. In this sense, the raw materials from which the images, textures, sounds, fragrances and flavors were made, which were part of the art and daily life of these pre-Columbian cultures, had meanings of great importance in their environments of belonging and use, whether they were public or private. This, finally, leads to the third argument that this book explores: the senses and sensory perception of art and daily life that participated in the sacred and the profane, giving identity to numerous sociocultural practices that are present in today's indigenous communities, who safeguard the historical memory of their ancestors.

Índice

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright page
• Contents Page
• List of Figures and Tables
• Introduction. Art and the Senses in ancient America
• Chapter 1. Materia, textura, color y percepción de las imágenes sagradas mayas
• Chapter 2. A miniature world of sensorial art
• Chapter 3. Modelando el sonido en barro: figurillas-silbatos miniatura del basurero de un noble
• Chapter 4. Aromas y experiencia olfativa en la cultura maya prehispánica
• Chapter 5. Envolviendo a los gobernantes mayas. Un estudio arqueométrico de dos contextos funerarios
• Chapter 6. Flavours, aromas and textures: art and everyday life among the ancient Maya
• Chapter 7. Mixtures and textures in Maya culinary art: evidence from yesterday and today
• Chapter 8. Entrando a un patio doméstico maya del Clásico Tardío-Terminal
• Chapter 9. La serpiente en la cultura visual maya. Materia y simbolismo
• Chapter 10. Los grafitos mayas prehispánicos: percepción y representación
• Chapter 11. Archaeometric study of the stuccos in archaeological sites of the Northern Maya Lowland
• Chapter 12. Thrones of the Dresden Codex: The Materiality of Power
• Chapter 13. Eternity Carved in Stone: Mayan and Olmec Green Stones Artifacts Characterized by in si
• Chapter 14. Análisis tecnológico del mono de obsidiana de la sala mexica del Museo Nacional de
• Chapter 15. Scrolls of Smoke and Sky: Reevaluating Scent and Sound in the Borgia Group Manuscripts
• Chapter 16. Estudios de la materialidad de los códices mesoamericanos: I. Apuntes para una historia
• Chapter 17. Estudios de la materialidad de los códices mesoamericanos: II. Acercamientos desde la hi
• Chapter 18. Sounds of Copper and Fire. Acoustic Symbolism of Copper Alloys in pre-Hispanic
• Chapter 19. Colours from the past: Mesoamerican pre-Hispanic dyes in Spanish Colonial Architecture
• Authors: Curriculum Vitae