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The Dissident Goddesses' Project
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CA$48.00
ISBN: 9783903572959
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
An interdisciplinary study of ancient Venus imageryThis book presents an interdisciplinary research inquiry into a collection of uncovered female figurines from Lower Austria’s early and prehistoric...
Decoding the Codex Borgia
Visual Symbols of Time and Space in Ancient Mexico
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CA$156.00
ISBN: 9780813069920
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University Press of Florida
This book explores the rich symbolism of the Codex Borgia, a masterpiece of Precolumbian art dating to the fifteenth century, showing how the manuscript’s intricate and colorful imagery conveys complex ideas related to Mesoamerican myths and religion.
Dressing the Part
Power, Dress, Gender, and Representation in the Pre-Columbian Americas
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CA$51.95
ISBN: 9780813080543
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University Press of Florida
"From Olmec costume switching to Peruvian bundle burials we see which types of power were gendered, which symbols or motifs were power filled, and how these symbols were borne by the living and the...
The Jaguar Within
Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art
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CA$49.95
ISBN: 9781477329214
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Texas Press
An important new way of viewing the prehistoric art of the Americas, The Jaguar Within demonstrates that understanding a work of art?s connection with shamanic trance can lead to an appreciation of it as an extremely creative solution to the inherent challenge of giving material form to nonmaterial realities and states of being.
Study on the Rock Art at the Yin Mountains
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CA$116.95
ISBN: 9781433168857
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers
As the heritage of ancient culture, rock art is distributed at each continent around the world, from which the ancestors recorded their social and economic life via this method to manifest their understanding and recognition on the world.
Jamaican Ceramics
A Historical and Contemporary Survey
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CA$67.95
ISBN: 9789766408848
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
The history of ceramics is rooted in the history of mankind. Jamaican Ceramics: A Historical and Contemporary Survey is a comprehensive examination of the development of ceramics from pre-history to...
New Methods and Theories for Analyzing Mississippian Imagery
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CA$113.00
ISBN: 9781683402121
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: University Press of Florida
Exploring various methodological and theoretical approaches to pre-Columbian visual culture, the essays in this volume reconstruct dynamic accounts of Native American history across the U.S. Southeast.
Paleolithic Politics
The Human Community in Early Art
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CA$168.95
ISBN: 9780268107130
Pub Date: April 2020
Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press
Using his background in political theory and philosophical anthropology, Barry Cooper is the first political scientist to propose new interpretations of some of the most famous extant Paleolithic...
Paleolithic Politics
The Human Community in Early Art
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CA$60.95
ISBN: 9780268107147
Pub Date: April 2020
Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press
Using his background in political theory and philosophical anthropology, Barry Cooper is the first political scientist to propose new interpretations of some of the most famous extant Paleolithic art...
Metropolitan Fetish
African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art
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CA$60.95
ISBN: 9781501736353
Pub Date: September 2019
Imprint: Cornell University Press
From the 1880s to 1940, French colonial officials, businessmen and soldiers, returning from overseas postings, brought home wooden masks and figures from Africa. This imperial and cultural power-play...
Illustrating the Past
Artists' interpretations of ancient places
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CA$83.95
ISBN: 9781848022720
Pub Date: May 2019
Our understanding of the human past is very limited. The mute evidence from excavation ? the dusty pot shards, fragments of bone, slight variations in soil colour and texture ? encourages abstraction...
Native Artists of North America
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CA$41.95
ISBN: 9780932828408
Pub Date: March 2019
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Lavishly illustrated with over 80 full-color images, this book includes original art and artifacts from the distant past as well as modern work by Native American artists from a vast array of tribes - including Cherokee, Delaware, Iroquois, Mohawk, Cheyenne, Lakota, Zuni, Pueblo, Yup'ik, Huron, Ojibwa, Arapaho, and Nez Perce. Works included are clothing (such as robes, shoes, and hats), everyday items (such as blankets, pots, jugs, and baskets) and artwork (such as paintings on animal hide and colorful figurines).
Early Rock Art of the American West
The Geometric Enigma
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CA$54.00
ISBN: 9780295743615
Pub Date: July 2018
Imprint: University of Washington Press
A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEThe earliest rock art - in the Americas as elsewhere - is geometric or abstract. Until Early Rock Art in the American West, however, no book-length study has been...
Dressing the Part
Power, Dress, Gender, and Representation in the Pre-Columbian Americas
Price:
CA$156.00
ISBN: 9780813062211
Pub Date: January 2017
Imprint: University Press of Florida
How costume expressed individual identity and social relationships in the ancient Americas"From Olmec costume switching to Peruvian bundle burials we see which types of power were gendered, which symbols...
Sacred Consumption
Food and Ritual in Aztec Art and Culture
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CA$30.95
ISBN: 9781477310694
Pub Date: December 2016
Imprint: University of Texas Press
Making a foundational contribution to Mesoamerican studies, this book explores Aztec painted manuscripts and sculptures, as well as indigenous and colonial Spanish texts, to offer the first integrated study of food and ritual in Aztec art.
The Maya: Voices in Stone
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CA$120.00
ISBN: 9788416354870
Pub Date: February 2016
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
The extraordinary culture of the Pre-Hispanic Mayans, in a broad range of subjects and approaches by international scholarsA gorgeously produced volume of over 500 pages, The...
The Dissident Goddesses' Project
CA$48.00
ISBN: 9783903572959
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Decoding the Codex Borgia
Visual Symbols of Time and Space in Ancient Mexico
CA$156.00
ISBN: 9780813069920
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University Press of Florida
Dressing the Part
Power, Dress, Gender, and Representation in the Pre-Columbian Americas
CA$51.95
ISBN: 9780813080543
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University Press of Florida
The Jaguar Within
Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art
CA$49.95
ISBN: 9781477329214
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Texas Press
Study on the Rock Art at the Yin Mountains
CA$116.95
ISBN: 9781433168857
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers
As the heritage of ancient culture, rock art is distributed at each continent around the world, from which the ancestors recorded their social and economic life via this method to manifest their understanding and recognition on the world.
Jamaican Ceramics
A Historical and Contemporary Survey
CA$67.95
ISBN: 9789766408848
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
New Methods and Theories for Analyzing Mississippian Imagery
CA$113.00
ISBN: 9781683402121
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: University Press of Florida
Paleolithic Politics
The Human Community in Early Art
CA$168.95
ISBN: 9780268107130
Pub Date: April 2020
Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press
Paleolithic Politics
The Human Community in Early Art
CA$60.95
ISBN: 9780268107147
Pub Date: April 2020
Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press
Metropolitan Fetish
African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art
CA$60.95
ISBN: 9781501736353
Pub Date: September 2019
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Illustrating the Past
Artists' interpretations of ancient places
CA$83.95
ISBN: 9781848022720
Pub Date: May 2019
Native Artists of North America
CA$41.95
ISBN: 9780932828408
Pub Date: March 2019
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Early Rock Art of the American West
The Geometric Enigma
CA$54.00
ISBN: 9780295743615
Pub Date: July 2018
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Dressing the Part
Power, Dress, Gender, and Representation in the Pre-Columbian Americas
CA$156.00
ISBN: 9780813062211
Pub Date: January 2017
Imprint: University Press of Florida
Sacred Consumption
Food and Ritual in Aztec Art and Culture
CA$30.95
ISBN: 9781477310694
Pub Date: December 2016
Imprint: University of Texas Press
The Maya: Voices in Stone
CA$120.00
ISBN: 9788416354870
Pub Date: February 2016
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.