Ceramics of Ancient America: Multidisciplinary Approaches
Ceramics of Ancient America: Multidisciplinary Approaches
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Abstract
Ceramics of Ancient America analyzes ceramics specifically from ancient America to add new layers to our understanding by emphasizing new perspectives and a multidisciplinary approach from the fields of archaeology, art history, and anthropology. Scholars have studied ceramic objects in these disciplines using various methodologies. So far, however, no publication has combined these different scholarly approaches to analyze Pre-Columbian ceramics to understand aspects of many different ancient societies across the Americas. This book thus will provide a much-needed compendium, survey, and synthesis of current scholarship of New World ceramics by drawing on a combination of three different disciplines. This volume will help students and scholars alike better understand and appreciate ceramics as one of the vital forms of communication within small social units, and across cultural and political boundaries. Although three different disciplines have approached the study of ceramics using different methodologies, this book will be the first to utilize them in a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary way to contribute to a more complete picture of Pre-Columbian ceramics and their place in society. The study of ceramics has already been recognized as a fundamental tool for understanding Pre-Columbian beliefs about daily life, reconstructing social systems, and assessing inter- and intra- cultural political relationships. The contributors to this book, however, explore social implications, iconography, trade, variations of regional style, innovation, ritual, and political meanings from numerous cultures in North, Central, and South America that are relevant to the study of ceramics anywhere, but particularly in ancient America.
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Front Matter
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A New Approach to Pre-Columbian Pottery: Introduction to the Volume
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Part I Revealing Natural and Supernatural Concepts through Formal Analysis
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Part II Investigating Identity and Social Narrative through Iconographic Analysis and Intertextuality
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Exploring the Technology and Meaning behind Early Ceramic Figurines from the Casma Valley, Peru
Shelia Pozorski andThomas Pozorski
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Emblems of Cultural Identity in Early Andean Art: Engraved Head Motifs on Cupisnique Ceramics
Yumi Park Huntington
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Bodies in Both Worlds: A Preliminary Comparison of Human and Supernatural Dress in Moche Art
Sarahh E. M. Scher
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Intertextuality in Classic Maya Ceramic Art and Writing: The Interplay of Myth and History on the Regal Rabbit Vase
Michael D. Carrasco andRobert F. Wald
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Exploring the Technology and Meaning behind Early Ceramic Figurines from the Casma Valley, Peru
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Part III Symmetry Patterns and Their Social Dimensions
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Symmetry Analysis of Step Fret Patterns on Ceramics and Other Media from Mesoamerica and the American Southwest: Continuities and Changes in a Shared Pattern System
Dorothy K. Washburn
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The Importance of Symmetry in Defining Caddo Relationships: A Synthesis of Perspectives
Johanna Minich andJeff Price
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Symmetry Analysis of Step Fret Patterns on Ceramics and Other Media from Mesoamerica and the American Southwest: Continuities and Changes in a Shared Pattern System
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Part IV Charting Innovation through Diachronic Studies
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“Ceramic Sets” in Maya and Toltec Ceramics: The Search for Innovation and Competition in Ancient Mesoamerican Pottery Systems
George J. Bey
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A Diachronic Perspective on the Prehispanic Ceramic Tradition of the Valley of Oaxaca
Gary M. Feinman
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Product Continuity and Change in Persistent Household Ceramic Production: The Tarascan Case
Amy J. Hirshman
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“Ceramic Sets” in Maya and Toltec Ceramics: The Search for Innovation and Competition in Ancient Mesoamerican Pottery Systems
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End Matter
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