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The role of gender in precolumbian art and architecture / edited by Virginia E. Miller.

By: Miller, Virginia Elizabeth
Contributor(s): International Congress of Americanists (45: 1985: Bogotá)
Language: English Publisher: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 1988.Description: xviii, 204p. : ill., diagrs., maps, photos, plans ; 24cm.ISBN: 0819170666
Contents:
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 fertidad-vivilidad a lo explicatamente femenino o masculino: la relación de las figurinas con los cambios en la organización 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 relationships 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 Florentine Codex / Margaret C. Arvey.
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Papers originally presented at the symposium "The role of gender in pre-columbian art and architecture" held at the 45th International Congress of Americanists in Bogotá, July 1985.

Includes bibls.

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 fertidad-vivilidad a lo explicatamente femenino o masculino: la relación de las figurinas con los cambios en la organización 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 relationships 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 Florentine Codex / Margaret C. Arvey.