Mixteca-Puebla: Discoveries and Research in Mesoamerican Art and Archaeology [Paperback]

La.) International Congress of Americanists (47th : 1991 : New Orleans (Author), H. B. Nicholson (Author, Editor), Eloise Quinones Keber (Editor), Eloise Quinones Keber (Editor)

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Text: English, Spanish

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• Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: Labyrinthos (August 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 091143738X
• ISBN-13: 978-0911437386
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"This important collection of 15 papers originated as a symposium on the "Mexica Puebla concept," a distinctive "stylistic/iconographic tradition" in the late prehistoric period of Central Mexico (mainly post-CE 1200). The term refers to a complex of traits that seems to have centered in the states of Puebla and western Oaxaca and spread widely, even as far as Costa Rica; the famous Aztec style in the Valley of Mexico was a related variation. Most of the papers analyze the best-known aspects of the tradition: distinctive painted iconography on highly decorated polychrome pottery, screen-fold books (codices), and wall murals. Emphasis is on the results of recent fieldwork that updates understanding of the Mixteca-Puebla manifestations in different local regions, allowing further interpretations of pre-Hispanic culture history and culture processes....

....An important addition for Mesoamerican collections, of lasting value."