Reconsidering Olmec visual culture : the unborn, women, and creation /
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| Author / Creator: | Tate, Carolyn Elaine. |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012. |
| Description: | xvii, 339 p. : ill., plans ; 29 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The William and Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the western hemisphere William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8681067 |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Rediscovering women and gestation in Olmec visual culture. A cradle of civilization ; Mesoamerica and its visual culture ; Early interpretations of the first known Olmec sculptures ; New questions in Olmec studies ; Is gender or gestation the compelling issue? ; How the book develops : content and methodologies -- The tale of the were-jaguar. The birth of the were-jaguar ; One were jaguar or many deities? ; The first attempt to stay the were-jaguar ; The were-jaguar as a shamanic alter ego ; Monstrous congenital anomalies ; Pantheons of deities or symbols of vital forces? ; Shamanism in an ecological context ; The rebirth of the maize deity ; Signs of life -- The sowing and dawning of the human-maize seed. Images of the unborn ; The formative Mesoamerican embryo and its matrix of associations ; Ethnographic analogies ; Hollow babies ; A contemporary baby in a boat : Niñopa ; Conclusions about embryos, fetuses, and babies -- Tracking gender, gestation, and narrativity through the early formative. The Archaic Period, 10,000 to 2000 BC : the beginning of visual symbols ; The Initial Formative, circe 1900 to 1400 BC ; The Early Formative, circa 1400-900 BC ; Fluctuations in visual culture during the Initial and Early Formative Periods ; Discussion: Maize technology I : fermentation ; Discussion: Maize technology II: nixtamalization -- La Venta's buried offerings : women and other revelations. Topography and sources of stone ; Discovery, excavation, and chronology of La Venta ; Surveying La Venta's visual culture through time ; Women and the unborn return to prominence -- Female water and earth supernaturals : the massive offerings, mosaic pavements, and mixe "work of the earth." Why construct massive offerings? ; Mixe beliefs in earth, water, and thunder supernormal entities ; La Venta's mosaic pavements ; Offerings inseminating the flowering earth ; Massive offerings : contained water ; Mixe healers, midwives, and rituals, and their Olmec antecedents ; Female shamans ; The mosaic pavements as conventionalized symbols ; Politics, protection, and healing -- A processional visual narrative at La venta. Previous investigations of Olmec creation narratives ; Patterns for the distribution of monumental sculptures ; A processional visual narrative -- La Venta's creation and origins narrative. An approach to visual narratives from preliterate societies ; The narrative stations (Station one: A womb with three fetuses ; Station two: A quincunx of thrones ; Station three: The dawning of human-maize ; Station four: The female sources of life : earth and water ; Station five: The bodiless heads ; Station six: The phallic column) ; Inserting politics into the creation and origins narrative ; Alternative reading orders ; Conclusions and questions -- A scattering of seeds. Assessing arguments for some major points ; Modes of communication ; Where did Olmec ideas go? ; Asking and answering the fundamental questions -- Appendix 1. La Venta monuments by format -- Appendix 2. Comparison of Mesoamerican creation and origins narratives -- Appendix 3. Shape-shifters and werewolves to were-jaguars : a brief chronology. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Olmec mythology. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94000720 | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Indian women in art. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008007793 | |
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