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Book Guide to the Maudslay Collection of Maya Sculptures  casts and Originals  from Central America

Download or read book Guide to the Maudslay Collection of Maya Sculptures casts and Originals from Central America written by British Museum. Department of Oriental Antiquities and of Ethnography and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to the Maudslay Collection of Maya Sculptures  casts and Originals  from Central America

Download or read book Guide to the Maudslay Collection of Maya Sculptures casts and Originals from Central America written by British Museum. Department of Oriental Antiquities and of Ethnography and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nature

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  • Release : 1923
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  • Pages : 600 pages

Download or read book Nature written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Elephants and Ethnologists

Download or read book Elephants and Ethnologists written by Grafton Elliot Smith and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of [the] ... stelae [at Copan, Honduras] now distinguished by archæologists by the letter B, is the chief topic of discussion in this book."--Page 21.

Book Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras  Guatemala

Download or read book Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras Guatemala written by Megan E. O'Neil and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now shrouded in Guatemalan jungle, the ancient Maya city of Piedras Negras flourished between the sixth and ninth centuries, when its rulers erected monumental limestone sculptures carved with hieroglyphic texts and images of themselves and family members, advisers, and captives. In Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala, Megan E. O’Neil offers new ways to understand these stelae, altars, and panels by exploring how ancient Maya people interacted with them. These monuments, considered sacred, were one of the community’s important forms of cultural and religious expression. Stelae may have held the essence of rulers they commemorated, and the objects remained loci for reverence of those rulers after they died. Using a variety of evidence,O’Neil examines how the forms, compositions, and contexts of the sculptures invited people to engage with them and the figures they embodied looks at these monuments not as inert bearers of images but as palpable presences that existed in real space at specific historical moments. Her analysis brings to the fore the material and affective force of these powerful objects that were seen, touched, and manipulated in the past. O’Neil investigates the monuments not only at the moment of their creation but also in later years and shows how they changed over time. She argues that the relationships among sculptures of different generations were performed in processions, through which ancient Maya people integrated historical dialogues and ancestral commemoration into the landscape. With the help of more than 160 illustrations, O’Neil reveals these sculptures’ continuing life histories, which in the past century have included their fragmentation and transformation into commodities sold on the international art market. Shedding light on modern-day transposition and display of these ancient monuments, O’Neil’s study contributes to ongoing discussions of cultural patrimony.

Book Pictorial Archaeology

Download or read book Pictorial Archaeology written by Roger Balm and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the expressly pictorial type of visual archaeology, the transcribing of three-dimensional materiality into two-dimensional depictions, and its influential history within the discipline. The picturing of ancient sites and artifacts to convey information links visual reporting with the workings of the imagination and indicates that the study of antiquity has always had a hybrid identity: part artistic and part scientific. In examining expressly pictorial forms of visual story-telling about the past, this book looks beyond certain supposed "creative turns" and focuses instead on creative continuities, answering key questions about the power of picturing and its ability to not only inform documentary practices but actively structure those practices. How are prints, drawings, paintings and photographs able to collapse the three-dimensional world of the ancient past onto a flat page but also convey a sense of material reality? In contemporary practice, how do pictorial ways of seeing enable the interpretation of material remains but also shape the recognition of digital traces on a computer screen? Published illustrations, both historical and contemporary, are primary sources of evidence for answering such questions and identifying common patterns of pictorial information. This book provides a framework for scholars researching the visual culture of archaeology as well as the history of archaeology. It is also recommended for professionals in the fields of heritage studies, conservation and community archaeology.

Book American Indian Design and Decoration

Download or read book American Indian Design and Decoration written by Le Roy H. Appleton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full text, plus more than 700 precise drawings of basketry, sculpture, painting, pottery, sand paintings, metal, much more. 4 plates in color. Text gives lore and tradition behind the designs.

Book Handbook to the Ethnographical Collections

Download or read book Handbook to the Ethnographical Collections written by British Museum and published by Order of Trustees. This book was released on 1925 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Writings on American History

Download or read book Writings on American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report

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  • Author : American Historical Association
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  • Release : 1926
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  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Annual Report written by American Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oxford University Press

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  • Author : Oxford University Press
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  • Release : 1924
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  • Pages : 704 pages

Download or read book Oxford University Press written by Oxford University Press and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: