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The Role of gender in Precolumbian art and architecture

Title
The Role of gender in Precolumbian art and architecture / edited by Virginia E. Miller.
Format
Book
Published
Lanham, MD : University Press of America, c1988.
Description
xviii, 204 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Other contributors
Miller, Virginia E., 1948- International Congress of Americanists (45th : 1985 : Bogotá, Colombia)
Notes
English and Spanish. Papers originally presented at a symposium at the 45th International Congress of Americanists, in Bogotá, Colombia, July, 1985. Includes bibliographies.
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 fertilidad-virilidad a lo explicitament femenino o masculino / Jorge G. Marcos and Mariella de Manrique
  • Gesture, role, and gender in west Mexican sculpture / Marilyn Goldstein
  • Women in Mochica art / Elizabeth P. Benson
  • Sacrific and sexuality / Andrea Stone
  • Yesterday the queen wore / Karen O. Bruhns
  • Pachamama, Pachatata / Susan Niles
  • Birth images in Mixteca-Puebla art / Susan Milbrath
  • Women of ill-repute in the Florendine codex / Margaret C. Aevey.
Subject headings
Indian art. Indian women. Sex in art. Indians--Antiquities. America--Antiquities.
ISBN
0819170666 0819170674 (pbk.)

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Herman B Wells Library
Call Number
E59.A7 R65 1988
Location
Wells Library - Research Coll. - Stacks
Floor
6th Floor, East Tower
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