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This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring more than three hundred works of art, many rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century. Presenting spectacular works from recent excavations in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico, this exhibition focuses on specific places and times—crucibles of innovation—where artistic exchange, rivalry, and creativity led to the production of some of the greatest works of art known from the ancient Americas. The book and exhibition explore not only...
plantas sagradas, rituales funerarios, formas de trabajo, costumbres religiosas, sacrificios, adornos, dioses, guerras, lenguas.
Cuando se culmina un proyecto de investigación antropológica o histórica, pocas veces se conoce la información sobre su origen y desarrollo, o las circunstancias y experiencias personales y profesionales de sus autores, desde el inicio del proceso de su elaboración hasta la redacción final del libro. Esta obra es un verdadero testimonio de las vivencias de cada uno de los protagonistas.
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
En la historia de la cultura mexicana siempre han coexistido la religión y la cultura, ya que está en entredicho la convivencia de la fe y la razón; de ahí el interés por dar a conocer de qué manera, durante el virreinato, las autoridades civiles y eclesiásticas se sirvieron de diversos métodos pastorales para fomentar la fe cristiana.
En este libro se presenta la localización del traslado de un pindecuario o libro manuscrito con información sobre las costumbres, las fiestas y las obligaciones religiosas de Charapan, una de las repúblicas purépechas más importantes durante el virreinato.
The offerings included masks, food, ceramic vessels, human remains, images of the gods, musical instruments, flint knives, bloody thorns, feathers, animals, figurines, and ornaments.
Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Stuides, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and...