The Ancient Americas : Art from sacred landscapes /
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Chicago : Munich :
Art Institute of Chicago : Prestel Verlag,
[1992]
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Table of Contents:
- Principles and themes
- Introduction: landscape and symbol / Richard F. Townsend
- Pre-Columbian images of time / Anthony F. Aveni
- The persistence of Maya tradition in Zinacantan / Evon Z. Vogt
- Mankind and the earth in America and Europe / Vincent Scully
- The Southwest
- Mimbres art: form and imagery / J.J. Brody
- The architecture of the ancient Southwest / Stephen H. Lekson
- Mesoamerica
- Order and nature in Olmec art / Beatriz de la Fuente
- The natural world as civic metaphor at Teotihuacan / Esther Pasztory
- The beginnings of preclassic Maya art and architecture / Juan Antonio Valdes
- The image of people and nature in classic Maya art and architecture / Mary Ellen Miller
- The renewal of nature at the temple of Tlaloc / Richard F. Townsend
- The Aztec main pyramid: ritual architecture at Tenochtitlan / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
- Pictorial codices of ancient Mexico / Elizabeth Hill Boone
- Central America and the northern Andes
- Cosmovision of the chiefdoms of the Isthmus of Panama / Mary W. Helms
- Symbols, ideology, and the expression of power in La Tolita, Ecuador / Francisco Valdez
- The Tairona of ancient Colombia / Tom Zuidema
- Andean civilization / The sacred center of Chavin de Huantar / Richard L. Burger
- Paracas Necropolis textiles: symbolic visions of coastal Peru / Anne Paul
- Interpreting the Nazca lines / Johan Reinhard
- The world of Moche / Elizabeth P. Benson
- Tiwanaku: the city at the center / Alan Kolata, Carlos Ponce Sangines
- Camelids and chaos in Huari and Tiwanaku textiles / Rebecca Stone-Miller
- Inca architecture and the sacred landscape / Susan A. Niles
- Ancestral time and sacred space in Inca state ritual / Colin McEwan, Maarten Van de Guchte.