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Product Description: This book examines the functions of sculpture during the Preclassic period in Mesoamerica and its significance in statements of social identity. Julia Guernsey situates the origins and evolution of monumental stone sculpture within a broader social and political context and demonstrates the role that such sculpture played in creating and institutionalizing social hierarchies...read more
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9781107012462 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 23, 2012, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: This book examines the functions of sculpture during the Preclassic period in Mesoamerica and its significance in statements of social identity.
Product Description: Recently, scholars of Olmec visual culture have identified symbols for umbilical cords, bundles, and cave-wombs, as well as a significant number of women portrayed on monuments and as figurines. In this groundbreaking study, Carolyn Tate demonstrates that these subjects were part of a major emphasis on gestational imagery in Formative Period Mesoamerica...read more
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9780292728523 | Univ of Texas Pr, January 18, 2012, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Recently, scholars of Olmec visual culture have identified symbols for umbilical cords, bundles, and cave-wombs, as well as a significant number of women portrayed on monuments and as figurines.
Hardcover:
9780521783125 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 26, 2007, cover price $115.00
Paperback:
9780521788823 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 26, 2007, cover price $39.99
Paperback:
9780884021193 | Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service, April 1, 1984, cover price $15.00
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9780884020936 | Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service, December 1, 1979, cover price $10.00
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9780884020790, titled "The Danzantes of Monte Alban" | Dumbarton Oaks Pub Service, June 1, 1978, cover price $30.00
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