RITUAL & POWER IN STONE

The Performance of Rulership in Mesoamerican Izapan Style Art


Libro de Julia Guernsey (2006)

CONTENIDO

Preface and Acknowledgments ix

1 An Introduction to the Late Preclassic Period 1
2 The Site of Izapa in Context 17
3 A Historiography of Izapa and the Izapan Style 43
4 Part of a Continuum: Supernatural Communication in Late Preclassic Izapan Style Art 75
5 The Performance of Rulership: Avian Transformation in Izapan Style Monuments 91
6 Monuments in Context 119
7 Beyond Ritual: Macaws, Men, and Matrices of Exchange 143

Notes 157
Bibliography 175