Mesoamerican Architecture As a Cultural Symbol,9780195079616

Mesoamerican Architecture As a Cultural Symbol

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ISBN13: 9780195079616
ISBN10: 0195079612
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-03-04
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

In this collection, prominent scholars provide new interpretations and useful syntheses of many of the most significant Mesoamerican architectural traditions from the Preclassic to the Postclassic periods. The essays examine the built environment as a carrier of cultural meanings. The many pyramid-temples, palaces, and ballcourts comprising Mesoamerican centers were constructed in the context of hierarchical societies, and provided monumental expressions of elite authority. The design of individual buildings, as well as the layout of site plans, often embodied Mesoamerican beliefs about the structure of the cosmos, natural forces, or the numinous power of landscape forms, thus providing sanction for the sociopolitical order.

Table of Contents

Contributors xiii
Introduction 2(12)
Jeff Karl Kowalski
1 Mountains of Creation and Underworld Portals: The Ritual Function of Olmec Architecture at La Venta, Tabasco
14(26)
F. Kent Reilly, III
2 The Architecture of the Teuchitlan Tradition of Mexico's Occidente
40(18)
Philip C. Weigand
3 Early Architecture in the Valley of Oaxaca: 1350 B.C.-A.D. 500
58(18)
Joyce Marcus
4 Natural Order, Social Order, Political Legitimacy, and the Sacred City: The Architecture of Teotihuacan
76(34)
Jeff Karl Kowalski
5 Classic Veracruz Architecture: Cultural Symbolism in Time and Space
110(30)
S. Jeffrey K. Wilkerson
6 Public Buildings and Civic Spaces at Xochicalco, Morelos
140(22)
Augusto Molina
Jeff Karl Kowalski
7 The Architecture of the Tula Body Politic
162(14)
Cynthia Kristan-Graham
8 The Lintel Paintings of Mitla and the Function of the Mitla Palaces
176(22)
John Martin Deland Pohl
9 The Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan: Cosmic Center of the Aztec Universe
198(22)
Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
10 Continuities and Contrasts in Early Classic Architecture of Central Copan
220(30)
Robert J. Sharer
William L. Fash
David W. Sedat
Loa P. Traxler
Richard Williamson
11 The Path of Life: Toward a Functional Analysis of Ancient Maya Architecture
250(24)
David Freidel
Charles Suhler
12 The Architecture of Uxmal: The Symbolics of Statemaking at a Puuc Maya Regional Capital
274(24)
Jeff Karl Kowalski
Nicholas P. Dunning
13 Architectural Innovation in the Temple of the Warriors at Chichen Itza
298(22)
Andrea Stone
14 Structure 16, Tulum, Quintana Roo: Iconography and Function of a Late Postclassic Maya Building
320(20)
Merideth Paxton
15 The Skull Rack in Mesoamerica
340(21)
Virginia E. Miller
Bibliography 361(40)
Index 401

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