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Pre-Columbian Symposium, Dumbarton Oaks (2005 : Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City, Mexico)
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| Title: |
The art of urbanism : how Mesoamerican kingdoms represented themselves in architecture and imagery / William L. Fash and Leonardo López Luján, editors. |
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Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ; [Cambridge, Mass.] ; Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2009. |
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| Description: |
viii, 480 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 27 cm. |
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Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia
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| Contents: |
Early Olmec architecture and imagery / Ann Cyphers and Anna Di Castro -- People of the Cerro : landscape, settlement, and art at middle formative period Chalcatzingo / David C. Grove and Susan D. Gillespie -- How Monte Albán represented itself / Joyce Marcus -- Centering the kingdom, centering the king : Maya creation and legitimation at San Bartolo / William A. Saturno -- Cholula : art and architecture of an archetypal city / Gabriela Uruñuela y Ladrón de Guevara, Patricia Plunket Nagoda, and Amparo Robles Salmerón -- A mountain god in Teotihuacan art / Zoltán Paulinyi -- The House of New Fire at Teotihuacan and its legacy in Mesoamerica / William L. Fash, Alexandre Tokovinine, and Barbara W. Fash -- Watery places and urban foundations depicted in Maya art and architecture / Barbara W. Fash -- Social identity and cosmology at El Tajín / Rex Koontz -- Four hundred years of settlement and cultural continuity in epiclassic and early postclassic Tula / Alba Guadalupe Mastache, Dan M. Healan, and Robert H. Cobean -- The face of the Itzas / William M. Ringle and George J. Bey III -- The Mexica in Tula and Tula in Mexico-Tenochtitlan / Leonardo López Luján and Alfredo López Austin -- Configuration of the sacred precinct of Mexico-Tenochtitlan / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma -- Summary: Cities as cosmological art : the art of politics / Davíd Carrasco. |
| Notes: |
Contains the results of the Dumbarton Oaks 2005 Pre-Columbian Symposium held at the Museo del Templo Mayor in Mexico City.Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780884023449 (hbk.) |
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0884023443 (hbk.) |
| Subject: |
Central America -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
Mexico -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
Indians of Central America -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
Indian art -- Central America -- Congresses.
Indian art -- Mexico -- Congresses.
Indian architecture -- Central America -- Congresses.
Indian architecture -- Mexico -- Congresses.
City and town life -- Central America -- History -- Congresses.
City and town life -- Mexico -- History -- Congresses.
Urban archaeology -- Central America -- Congresses.
Urban archaeology -- Mexico -- Congresses.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Central America -- Congresses.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Mexico -- Congresses.
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| Authors: |
Fash, William Leonard.
Fash, William Leonard. House of New Fire at Teotihuacan and its legacy in Mesoamerica.
López Luján, Leonardo.
López Luján, Leonardo. Mexica in Tula and Tula in Mexico-Tenochtitlan.
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Dumbarton Oaks.
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| Other titles: |
Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia.
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| HOLLIS number |
012082574 |
| Link to this record |
http://discovery.lib.harvard.edu//accessible.ashx?itemid=%7clibrary%2fm%2faleph%7c012082574
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