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Making value, making meaning : techné in the pre-Columbian world / Cathy Lynne Costin, editor.

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Making value, making meaning : techné in the pre-Columbian world / Cathy Lynne Costin, editor.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2016]
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Description

viii, 489 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 29 cm.

Summary

"Making Value, Making Meaning: Techné in the Pre-Columbian World adopts the concept of techné as an analytic tool useful for understanding how the production process created value and meaning for social valuables and public monuments in complex societies in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and the Andes. In doing so, the archaeologists and art historians contributing to this volume add to the study of ancient artisans and craftsmanship through the exploration of how technology, the organization of production, artisan identity, and the deployment of esoteric knowledge factored into the creation of symbolically and politically charged material culture. The wide-ranging case studies in this volume demonstrate that the concept of techné—thorough and masterful knowledge of a specific field deployed to create things with social utility—is a powerful one for understanding the political economy of craft production and the role of objects in social life and how their creation and use helps to generate their social, political, and spiritual power."--

Series Statement

Dumbarton Oaks pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia

Uniform Title

Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia

Alternative Title

Techné in the pre-Columbian world
Techné in the pre-Columbian world

Subject

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.

Note

"Volume based on papers presented at the Pre-Columbian Studies Symposium 'Making Value, Making Meaning : Techné in the Pre-Columbian World, ' held at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., on October 11-12, 2013"; Cathy L. Costin, sympoiarch.--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Making value, making meaning : techné in the pre-Columbian world / Cathy Lynne Costin -- Lustrous surfaces and shades of green : value and meaning in three Mesoamerican lapidary ensembles from Teotihuacan, Palenque, and La Venta / Laura Filloy Nadal -- The eloquence of color : material and meaning in the Cacaxtla murals / Claudia Brittenham and Diana Magaloni Kerpel -- Telluric techné and the lithic production of Tiwanaku / John W. Janusek and Patrick Ryan Williams -- Encoded process, embodied meaning in paracas post-fired ceramics / Lisa DeLeonardis -- Valuing the local : Inka metal production in the Tarapacá Valley of northern Chile / Colleen Zori -- New world metallurgy : a comparative study of copper production in the south central Andes and West Mexico / Blanca Maldonado -- Spondylus and the Inka empire on the far north coast of Peru : recent excavations at Taller Conchales, Cabeza de Vaca, Tumbes / Jerry D. Moore and Carolina Maria Vílchez -- The artistry of Moche mural painting and the ephemerality of monuments / Lisa Trever -- Techné and ceramic social valuables of the late preclassic Maya lowlands / Michael G. Callaghan -- Crafting identities deep and broad : hybrid ceramics on the late prehispanic north coast of Peru / Cathy Lynne Costin -- Shaping local and regional identities : techné in the Moche presence at Cerro Castillo, Nepeña Valley, Peru / Carlos Rengifo -- Crafting credit : authorship among classic Maya painters and sculptors / Stephen Houston -- Textile techné : classic Maya translucent cloth and the making of value / Christina T. Halperin.

ISBN

9780884024156
0884024156

LCCN

^^2015045619

OCLC

946075823
SCSB-11394341

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library