Making value, making meaning : techné in the pre-Columbian world /
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D. C. :
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection,
2016.
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| Series: | Dumbarton Oaks pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia
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Table of 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 / Stephen Houston.
- Textile Techné. Classic Maya Translucent Cloth and the Making of Value / Christina T. Halperin.