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Art and the Senses in Ancient America addresses three essential questions. The first is the materiality of the arts in pre-Columbian America, considering different cultures of both ancient Mesoamerica and the Andean area. In several of its chapters, the importance of physicochemical studies applied to the study of the art of past cultures is evident, because they offer results on the raw materials that were used, which were not always referenced in written or visual sources. The volume approaches art not only from its tangible dimension, but also from its immaterial one, as demonstrated by chapters focused on the culinary, aromatic and musical arts, which appeal to the senses of taste, smell and hearing. This brings us to the second dimension under discussion: the close relationship between the materiality of the arts and their sociocultural meanings. In this sense, the raw materials from which the images, textures, sounds, fragrances and flavors were made, which were part of the art and daily life of these pre-Columbian cultures, had meanings of great importance in their environments of belonging and use, whether they were public or private. This, finally, leads to the third argument that this book explores: the senses and sensory perception of art and daily life that participated in the sacred and the profane, giving identity to numerous sociocultural practices that are present in today's indigenous communities, who safeguard the historical memory of their ancestors.
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Author: María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual (Professor of Art History, Universitat de València, Spain) , Ana García Barrios (Professor of American History, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid) , Megan E. O’Neil (Associate Professor of Art History, Emory University)
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing
Imprint: Archaeopress Publishing
Edition: Bilingual edition
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Width: 20.50cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 29.00cm
Weight: 0.885kg
ISBN: 9781803278117
ISBN 10: 1803278110
Pages: 316
Publication Date: 12 December 2024
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Language: Spanish
Table of Contents
Introduction. Art and the Senses in ancient America – Ma. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual, Ana García Barrios, Megan E. O’Neil Part I. Art, sensory perception and experience among the ancient Maya Chapter 1. Materia, textura, color y percepción de las imágenes sagradas mayas – Ana García Barrios, Alejandra Martínez de Velasco Cortina Chapter 2. A miniature world of sensorial art – Mary E. Miller Chapter 3. Modelando el sonido en barro: figurillas-silbatos miniatura del basurero de un noble del Grupo IV de Palenque – Ana García Barrios, Andrés Ciudad Ruiz, Jesús Adánez Pavón Chapter 4. Aromas y experiencia olfativa en la cultura maya prehispánica – Ma. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual, Patricia Horcajada Campos Chapter 5. Envolviendo a los gobernantes mayas. Un estudio arqueométrico de dos contextos funerarios del sitio arqueológico de Calakmul, Campeche, México – Vera Tiesler, Patricia Quintana Owen, Kadwin Pérez López, Daniel H. Aguilar Treviño, Ivan Oliva Arias, J.V. Cauich Rodríguez, William J. Folan, María del Rosario Domínguez Carrasco Chapter 6. Flavours, aromas and textures: art and everyday life among the ancient Maya – Lilia Fernández Souza Chapter 7. Mixtures and textures in Maya culinary art: evidence from yesterday and today – María Jesús Novelo-Pérez, Esteban Moisés Herrera-Parra Chapter 8. Entrando a un patio doméstico maya del Clásico Tardío-Terminal – Marie Charlotte Arnauld Chapter 9. La serpiente en la cultura visual maya. Materia y simbolismo – Cristina Vidal Lorenzo Chapter 10. Los grafitos mayas prehispánicos: percepción y representación – Núria Feliu Beltrán Chapter 11. Archaeometric study of the stuccos in archaeological sites of the Northern Maya Lowlands (Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico): the lime from the mortars of the preparation layers – Núria Guasch-Ferré, José Luis Prada Pérez, Ma. Teresa Doménech-Carbó, Ma. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual, Laura Osete-Cortina Chapter 12. Thrones of the Dresden Codex: The Materiality of Power – Merideth Paxton Part II. Art, sensory perception and experience among other Mesoamerican and Pre-Columbian Cultures Chapter 13. Eternity Carved in Stone: Mayan and Olmec Greenstone Artifacts Characterized by in situ Spectroscopic Methods – Mayra Dafne Manrique-Ortega, José Luis Ruvalcaba-Sil, Edgar Casanova-González, Laura Filloy-Nadal, Pieterjan Claes, María Angélica García-Bucio, Malinalli Wong-Rueda, Valentina Aguilar-Melo Chapter 14. Análisis tecnológico del mono de obsidiana de la sala mexica del Museo Nacional de Antropología de la Ciudad de México – Emiliano Melgar Tísoc, Reyna Beatriz Solís Ciriaco, Bertina Olmedo Vera Chapter 15. Scrolls of Smoke and Sky: Reevaluating Scent and Sound in the Borgia Group Manuscripts – Alanna S. Radlo-Dzur Chapter 16. Estudios de la materialidad de los códices mesoamericanos: I. Apuntes para una historia de los análisis científicos – Davide Domenici, Élodie Dupey García Chapter 17. Estudios de la materialidad de los códices mesoamericanos: II. Acercamientos desde la historia y perspectivas para el futuro – Élodie Dupey García, Davide Domenici Chapter 18. Sounds of Copper and Fire. Acoustic Symbolism of Copper Alloys in pre-Hispanic Musical Instruments – Mónica Gudemos Chapter 19. Colours from the past: Mesoamerican pre-Hispanic dyes in Spanish Colonial Architecture in Northern Mexico – Karla Muñoz Alcocer, Laura Fuster-López, Ma. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual, Marcello Picollo, Diana Maldonado-Escobar, Daniel Salazar-Alemán
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The contributions collected in this book are presented by authors working in different academic institutions in Europe and the Americas. Their long research trajectories are characterized by innovative interdisciplinary approaches that are characteristic of their respective universities and research centers, including the Getty Research Institute, Emory University, Princeton University, University of New Mexico, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Merida, Yucatan), Universitat de Valencia, Istituto di Fisica Applicata """"Nello Carrara""""-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Universita di Bologna, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Paris, among others. In this way, the book brings together structured contributions from diverse disciplinary fields, such as art history, history, archaeology, anthropology or archaeometry, among others. The authors have all published widely in international journals and books. The contributions collected in this book are presented by authors working in different academic institutions in Europe and the Americas. Their long research trajectories are characterized by innovative interdisciplinary approaches that are characteristic of their respective universities and research centers, including the Getty Research Institute, Emory University, Princeton University, University of New Mexico, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Merida, Yucatan), Universitat de Valencia, Istituto di Fisica Applicata """"Nello Carrara""""-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Universita di Bologna, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Paris, among others. In this way, the book brings together structured contributions from diverse disciplinary fields, such as art history, history, archaeology, anthropology or archaeometry, among others. The authors have all published widely in international journals and books. The contributions collected in this book are presented by authors working in different academic institutions in Europe and the Americas. Their long research trajectories are characterized by innovative interdisciplinary approaches that are characteristic of their respective universities and research centers, including the Getty Research Institute, Emory University, Princeton University, University of New Mexico, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Merida, Yucatan), Universitat de Valencia, Istituto di Fisica Applicata """"Nello Carrara""""-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Universita di Bologna, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Paris, among others. In this way, the book brings together structured contributions from diverse disciplinary fields, such as art history, history, archaeology, anthropology or archaeometry, among others. The authors have all published widely in international journals and books.
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