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Moche art and visual culture in ancient Peru

Title
Moche art and visual culture in ancient Peru / Margaret A. Jackson.
Author
Jackson, Margaret A. (Margaret Ann)
Publication
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008.

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Description
xv, 232 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), 1 map; 27 cm.
Subject
  • Mochica art
  • Mochica pottery > Themes, motives
  • Picture-writing > Peru
  • Symbolism in art > Peru
  • Yunca language > Writing
  • Peru > Antiquities
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-221) and index.
Contents
Social and cultural contexts of Moche art -- Introduction: toward a Moche epigraphy -- Moche art: social contexts, functions, and religious underpinnings -- Production of ceramic imagery -- Interpretation of Moche iconographic configurations -- Issues of iconographic analysis -- Mold technology and the formation of semantic units -- Muchic and the linguistic analogy -- Hybrid presentational syntax in moche iconography -- Concluding comments.
Call Number
JGF 08-269
ISBN
  • 9780826343659 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0826343651 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
2008036819
OCLC
231724559
Author
Jackson, Margaret A. (Margaret Ann)
Title
Moche art and visual culture in ancient Peru / Margaret A. Jackson.
Imprint
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-221) and index.
Research Call Number
JGF 08-269
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