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Tiahuanaco : una ciudad arcaica
- Title
- Tiahuanaco : una ciudad arcaica / Norma M. Cantatore de Frank.
- Author
- Cantatore de Frank, Norma M.
- Publication
- Buenos Aires : Orientación Gráfica Editora, ©2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | F3319.1.T55 C36 2010 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 241 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Summary
- The author of this volume explores the artistic, ethnic, religious, elements of the Andean culture of Tiahuanaco, the Bolivian mountaintop Pre-Hispanic city by Lake Titicaca with its extraordinary massive-stone Temple Gate with its ornamental and combined hieroglyphs dedicated to the god Sun, its sophisticated calendar, the monoliths, the complex reservoir system with stone pipes, and a truncated pyramid perfectly squared with the cardinal points of the compass. "An important element to consider is that the separation that western culture makes of the social, economic, religious, art, etc. organization has no correspondence with the Amerindians. They maintained an integrated and totalitarian cosmovision based fundamentally in their myths, dogmas, and governing castes, where each element or action was part of a whole and coherent cosmic and magical world. All Amerindian events involved a philosophical-conceptual-mystic-artistic reason through a communicative-poetic willingness, something not investigated in detail in most of the Pre-Columbian studies. Maybe we have accomplished it" --P. VII.
- Subject
- Tiwanaku culture
- Indians of South America > Bolivia > Tiwanaku River Valley > Antiquities
- Tiwanaku pottery
- Antiquities
- Civilization
- Indians of South America > Antiquities
- Tiwanaku Site (Bolivia)
- Tiahuanacu (Bolivia) > Civilization
- Tiwanaku River Valley (Bolivia) > Antiquities
- Bolivia > Tiahuanacu
- Bolivia > Tiwanaku River Valley
- Bolivia > Tiwanaku Site
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-241)
- Contents
- Autoría -- Prólogo -- Capítulo I. Las culturas andinas -- Capítulo II. A orillas del lago "más alto" del mundo -- Capítulo III. Historia acerca de la investigación Tiahuanaco -- Capítulo IV. Las ruinas -su ubicación y descripción- -- Capítulo V. Acerca de las ideografías ornamentales de la Puerta del Sol -- Capítulo VI. Acerca de las ideografías combinadas de la Puerta del Sol -- Capítulo VII. La Puerta del Sol. Distintas interpretaciones respecto a los glifos que ostenta su frontis -- Capítulo VIII. Lectura de los jeroglíficos. Interpretación de su calendario -- Capítulo IX. La materia prima para los monumentos de Tiahuanaco -- Capítulo X. Acerca de los monolitos -- Capítulo XI. Cerámica -- Capítulo XII. Metalurgia -- Capítulo XIII. Prehistoria y concepto de poder -- Capítulo XIV. Lo sagrado y el poder en las sociedades arcaicas -- Capítulo XV. Tiahuanaco y su entorno socio-poltico -- Capítulo XVI. Comentarios finales -- Bibliografía.
- ISBN
- 9789879260807
- 9879260805
- LCCN
- 2011438274
- OCLC
- ocn750163159
- 750163159
- SCSB-1608408
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library