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Title:

A pre-Columbian world / Jeffrey Quilter and Mary Miller, eds.

Publisher:

Distributed by Harvard University Press,
Distributed by Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

395 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Indians--Antiquities--Congresses.
America--Antiquities.--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Quilter, Jeffrey, 1949-
Miller, Mary Ellen.
Dumbarton Oaks.

Notes:

From a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks 6 and 7 October 2001. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Jeffrey Quilter -- The defining sample : how we pursue the pre-Columbian past / Elizabeth Hill Boone -- On pre-Columbian narrative : representation across the word-image divide / Simon Martin -- Glimpses of a common cosmos? : a brief look south and north from Panama / Mary W. Helms -- Salient representations of the American past / Warren R. DeBoer -- Exploring the Mississippian big bang at Cahokia / Robert L. Hall -- Bringing the rain : an ideology of rain making in the Pueblo Southwest and Mesoamerica / Polly Schaafsma and Karl A. Taube -- Teotihuacan in Mesoamerican political history / Enrique Florescano -- History, memory, and knowledge in Andean visual imagery : the intersection of art, architecture, and landscape / Tom D. Dillehay and Ramiro Matos -- Animal transformations : the mixing of Maya and European fantasy and belief / Anna Blume -- The study of the pre-Columbian world / Mary Miller.

ISBN:

9780884023159 (alk. paper)
088402315X (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)65301744

LCCN:

2006009533

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)