Research Catalog

Title

• 3000 years of art and life in Mexico, as seen in the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. By Ignacio Bernal with Román Piña-Chán and Fernando Cámara-Barbachano. Photos. by Irmgard Groth. [Translated from the Spanish by Carolyn B. Czitrom]

Author

Bernal, Ignacio, 1910-1992

Publication

New York, H. N. Abrams [1968]

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Additional Authors

• Cámara Barbachano, Fernando
• Museo Nacional de Antropología (Mexico)
• Piña Chán, Román

Description

216 p. illus. (part col.), maps.; 21 cm.

Summary

Three thousand years of art and life are superbly displayed in the National Museum of Anthropology, in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City. Opened in 1964, it embodies entirely new concepts of museum design. Years of planning were devoted to ensuring that the collection (the richest accumulation of Mexican artifacts in the world) would be rehoused in a building specially designed for it and providing ample space for future acquisitions. Specialists in many fields participated: anthropologists photographed Mexican tribes; archaeologists excavated sites in order to fill gaps in the collection; craftsmen executed reconstructions of vanished civilizations. The outcome is a comprehensive and scientifically ordered panorama of the ancient cultures of Mesoamerica, from prehistory to the Spanish conquest, and their still continuing heritage. -- Provided by publisher

Uniform Title

Tesoros del Museo Nacional de Antropología de México. English

Alternative Title

Tesoros del Museo Nacional de Antropología de México.

Subjects

• Museo Nacional de Antropología (Mexico)
• Indian art > Mexico
• Indians of Mexico > Antiquities

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Origins, Aims and Achievements of the Museum: Ignacio bernal -- The Archeological Section: román piña-chán -- Hall 1 Introduction to anthropology -- Map: regions and archeological sites of mesoamerica -- Chronological table -- Hall 2: Mesoamerica -- 3. The origins -- 4. The preclassic period in the central highlands -- 5. Teotihuacán -- 6. The toltecs -- 7. The mexica -- 8. The cultures of oaxaca -- 9. The gulf coast cultures -- 10. The maya -- 11. The north of mexico -- 12. Western mexico -- The Ethnographical Section: Fernando Cámara-barbachano -- Introductory hall -- The cora and huichol indians -- Tarascan hall -- Otomi hall -- The northern sierra of puebla -- Oaxaca hall -- The gulf coast cultures -- The maya halls -- North-western mexico -- Modern autochthonous mexico -- Map: Main Cultural Areas of Mexico

LCCN

^^^68008978^//r943

OCLC

386824

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library