Mesoamerican religions and archaeology : essays in pre-Columbian civilizations /
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The main goal of this work is to produce a methodologically sound and ethically valid interdisciplinary introduction into the exciting world of ancient Mesoamerica.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781784915032 (ebook) :
Filiaciones culturales y contactos entre las poblaciones Virú-Gallinazo y Mochica (200 AC-600 DC, costa norte del Perú) /
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This volume documents the pottery traditions to understand both their origins, filiations, and contacts, studying the modes of manufacture of archaeological ceramics discovered at more than nine sites in the region, preserved at the Ministry of Culture of Peru and various Peruvian, French and American museums.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (xxxviii, 430 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803273983 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Metallurgy in ancient Ecuador : a study of the collection of archaeological metallurgy of the Ministry of Culture, Ecuador /
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Metallurgical activity was present in Ecuador from at least 1500 BC; by around the beginning of the Common Era metallurgical manufacture and use had extended to most of the Costa and Sierra. Regional styles soon evolved giving rise to high levels of technical craftsmanship and to shaping particular iconographic and decorative patterns. Copper, gold, silver and platinum were mined, processed and converted into thousands of ornaments, offerings, tools and weapons extensively used both by elites and by the common people. This work discusses this topic.
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1 online resource : illustrations (colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784911614 (PDF ebook) :
The frontier mission and social transformation in western Honduras : the Order of Our Lady of Mercy, 1525-1773 /
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The Frontier Mission and Social Transformation in Western Honduras deals with the interaction between Mercedarian missionaries and the indigenous Lenca Indian population of western Honduras during the early sixteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries. Using an anthropological perspective, it relies heavily on previously neglected ecclesiastical archival material in conjunction with preliminary archaeological evidence as an integral source of data. A fine-grained description of the local processes of missionization in a frontier region examines the organization, operation and goals of the Mercedarian mission province located in the colonial Audiencia of Guatemala. Summary data concerning aspects of Lenca society and physical environment relevant to investigation of mission activities are provided. The importance of this study lies in its ability to explain mission development in frontier settings as well as to trace transformations within a mission order over almost a 250-year period.
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1 online resource (xii, 194 pages) : maps. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-189) and index. :
9789004319950 :
0924-9389 ; :
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Patrones de asentamiento del Malpaís de Zacapu (Michoacán, México) y de sus alrededores en el Posclásico /
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This volume presents the results of the archaeological studies relative to the settlement pattern, realised within the framework of the Michoacán Projects I and III, studying of all the perceptible demonstrations of the prehispanic occupations in the region.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). :
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9781784913885 (ebook) :
Arqueología urbana en el área central de la ciudad de Córdoba, Argentina : excavaciones en la sede Corporativa del Banco de la Provincia de Córdoba (2014-2016) /
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This work is part of a line of action proposed by the Institute of Anthropology of Córdoba (IDACOR), doubly dependent executing unit of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and the National University of Cordoba (UNC). This action requires the intervention of professional archaeologists in order to evaluate the impact produced by subsurface excavation in cases related to the development of real estate projects.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784916091 (ebook) :
Crosscurrents in indigenous spirituality : interface of Maya, Catholic, and Protestant worldviews /
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The resurgence of indigenous cultures and the reappearance of their ancient spiritualities, during the 1990s, is of great interest to social scientists. Several such cultures are featured in this book. The indigenous populations of struggling multi-ethnic \'democracies\' in Latin America are demanding to be integrated into the national mainstream, together with their holistic values of family, economics and ecology. Institutional Christianity is being challenged by indigenous theologies that are critical of both traditional Christianity and liberation theology. While some see here a danger of syncretism, these developments can be experienced as a breath of fresh air. \'Much has been said about the Mayas, but they have not been allowed to speak for themselves\' (anthropologist Rafael Girardi, 1962). This book is an attempt to allow religious spokespersons from a very ancient and creative civilization to share their faith, which has remained hidden for five centuries.
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1 online resource (xvi, 329 pages) : illustrations, map. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-329) and index. :
9789004319981 :
0924-9389 ; :
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Searching for the 17th century on Nevis : the survey and excavation of two early plantation sites /
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A monograph dedicated to the archaeological investigation of the landscape, buildings and artefacts of the Eastern Caribbean by the Nevis Heritage Project. It presents the results of documentary research and excavation on two sugar plantation sites on the island of Nevis.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white). :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781789698879 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
El renacer de los Reyes : imagen, contexto y significado del friso de Balamkú, Campeche, México /
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The frieze of Structure 1-A Sub of Balamk,͠ Campeche, is one of the most complex Maya artistic expressions of the Classic period (250-900 AD). This study places the frieze within its historical framework so the monument may be better understood and the significance of its message revealed.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (181 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781803273518 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
El Palacio : historiography and new perspectives on a pre-Tarascan city of northern Michoacán, Mexico /
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11 contributions consider legacy and archive data (1896-1995) and results derived from recent archaeological investigations (2012-2017) to present a review and analysis of the chrono-stratigraphy, material culture, urbanism, and economic and ritual practices at El Palacio, northern Michoacán, Mexico, between A.D. 850 and 1521.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789697971 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Dokumentarische Papyri des 2. Jh. v. Chr. aus dem Herakleopolites : (P. Heid. VIII) /
: Originally presented as the author's dissertation (Universität Heidelberg, 1999) : xxix, 355 pages, 11 pages of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm. : Includes bibliography (pages [xi]-xxix) and indexes.
Recent investigations in the Puuc region of Yucatán /
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The papers here focus on the history of the Puuc region, Yucatán, incorporating archaeological, architectural, epigraphic, and iconographic studies.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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9781784915452 (ebook) :
Easter Island archaeology : a tribute to Daniel Schávelzon on the 30th anniversary of the Center for Urban Archaeology at the University of Buenos Aires = Arqueologia en Rapa Nui (...
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This well illustrated volume presents in its introduction a personal history of Daniel Schávelzon's experience of Easter Island during his youth before collecting all the papers and work he produced in 2014 leading up to his retirement.
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Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784913601 (ebook) :
Aztec Religion and Art of Writing : Investigating Embodied Meaning, Indigenous Semiotics, and the Nahua Sense of Reality /
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In her groundbreaking investigation from the perspective of the aesthetics of religion, Isabel Laack explores the religion and art of writing of the pre-Hispanic Aztecs of Mexico. Inspired by postcolonial approaches, she reveals Eurocentric biases in academic representations of Aztec cosmovision, ontology, epistemology, ritual, aesthetics, and the writing system to provide a powerful interpretation of the Nahua sense of reality. Laack transcends the concept of "sacred scripture" traditionally employed in religions studies in order to reconstruct the Indigenous semiotic theory and to reveal how Aztec pictography can express complex aspects of embodied meaning. Her study offers an innovative approach to nonphonographic semiotic systems, as created in many world cultures, and expands our understanding of human recorded visual communication. This book will be essential reading for scholars and readers interested in the history of religions, Mesoamerican studies, and the ancient civilizations of the Americas. 'This excellent book, written with intellectual courage and critical self-awareness, is a brilliant, multilayered thought experiment into the images and stories that made up the Nahua sense of reality as woven into their sensational ritual performances and colorful symbolic writing system.' - Davíd Carrasco, Harvard University
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004392014 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.