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The Role of gender in Precolumbian art and architecture

Title
The Role of gender in Precolumbian art and architecture / edited by Virginia E. Miller.
Publication
Lanham, MD : University Press of America, ©1988.

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Additional Authors
  • Miller, Virginia E., 1948-
  • International Congress of Americanists (45th : 1985 : Bogotá, Colombia)
Description
xviii, 204 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Indian art
  • Indian women
  • Sex in art
  • Indians > Antiquities
  • Antiquities
  • Geschlechterrolle
  • Kunst
  • Kongress
  • America > Antiquities
  • America
  • Altamerika
Note
  • English and Spanish.
  • Papers originally presented at a symposium at the 45th International Congress of Americanists, in Bogotá, Colombia, July, 1985.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Contents
The role of gender in Precolumbian art and architecture / Virginia E. Miller -- Interpreting certain female images in prehistoric art / Anna C. Roosevelt -- De la dualidad fertilidad-virilidad a lo explicitamente femenino o masculino : la relacion de las figurinas con los cambios en la organizacion social valdivia, Real Alto, Ecuador / Jorge G. Marcos and Mariella de Manrique -- Gesture, role, and gender in west Mexican sculpture / Marilyn Goldstein -- Women in Mochica art / Elizabeth P. Benson -- Sacrifice and sexuality : some structural realtionships in classic Maya art / Andrea Stone -- Yesterday the queen wore ... an analysis of women and costume in public art of the late Classic Maya / Karen O. Bruhns -- Pachamama, Pachatata : gender and sacred space in Amantani / Susan Niles -- Birth images in Mixteca-Puebla art / Susan Milbrath -- Women of ill-repute in the Florendine codex / Margaret C. Aevey.
ISBN
  • 0819170666
  • 9780819170668
  • 0819170674
  • 9780819170675
LCCN
88017316
OCLC
  • ocm18069775
  • 18069775
  • SCSB-9702891
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library