Maya Culture Costume

Author : Nicholas Carter,Stephen D. Houston,Franco D. Rossi
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477320723

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The Adorned Body by Nicholas Carter,Stephen D. Houston,Franco D. Rossi Pdf

How we dress our bodies—through clothing, footwear, headgear, jewelry, haircuts, and more—is key to the expression of status and identity. This idea was as true for ancient Maya civilization as it is today, yet few studies have centered on what ancient Maya peoples wore and why. In The Adorned Body, Nicholas Carter, Stephen Houston, and Franco Rossi bring together contributions from a wide range of scholars, leading to the first in-depth study of Maya dress in pre-Columbian times. Incorporating artistic, hieroglyphic, and archaeological sources, this book explores the clothing and ornaments of ancient Maya peoples, systematically examining who wore what, deducing the varied purposes and meanings of dress items and larger ensembles, and determining the methods and materials with which such items were created. Each essay investigates a category of dress—including headgear, pendants and necklaces, body painting, footwear, and facial ornaments—and considers the variations within each of these categories, as well as popular styles and trends through time. The final chapters reveal broader views and comparisons about costume ensembles and their social roles. Shedding new light on the art and archaeology of the ancient Americas, The Adorned Body offers a thorough map of Maya dress that will be of interest to scholars and fashion enthusiasts alike.

Author : Patricia B. Altman,Caroline D. West
Publisher : University of California Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173008331710

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Threads of Identity by Patricia B. Altman,Caroline D. West Pdf

Author : Heather Orr,Matthew Looper
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607322825

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Wearing Culture by Heather Orr,Matthew Looper Pdf

Wearing Culture connects scholars of divergent geographical areas and academic fields—from archaeologists and anthropologists to art historians—to show the significance of articles of regalia and of dressing and ornamenting people and objects among the Formative period cultures of ancient Mesoamerica and Central America. Documenting the elaborate practices of costume, adornment, and body modification in Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Oaxaca, the Soconusco region of southern Mesoamerica, the Gulf Coast Olmec region (Olman), and the Maya lowlands, this book demonstrates that adornment was used as a tool for communicating status, social relationships, power, gender, sexuality, behavior, and political, ritual, and religious identities. Despite considerable formal and technological variation in clothing and ornamentation, the early indigenous cultures of these regions shared numerous practices, attitudes, and aesthetic interests. Contributors address technological development, manufacturing materials and methods, nonfabric ornamentation, symbolic dimensions, representational strategies, and clothing as evidence of interregional sociopolitical exchange. Focusing on an important period of cultural and artistic development through the lens of costuming and adornment, Wearing Culture will be of interest to scholars of pre-Hispanic and pre-Columbian studies.

Author : Christine Conte,Jonathan Batkin,Cathy Wright
Publisher : Taylor Museum of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center for Southwestern Studies
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Design
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018584926

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Maya Culture & Costume by Christine Conte,Jonathan Batkin,Cathy Wright Pdf

Author : Traci Ardren
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0759100101

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Ancient Maya Women by Traci Ardren Pdf

The flood of archaeological work in Maya lands has revolutionized our understanding of gender in ancient Maya society. The dozen contributors to this volume use a wide range of methodological strategies--archaeology, bioarchaeology, iconography, ethnohistory, epigraphy, ethnography--to tease out the details of the lives, actions, and identities of women of Mesoamerica. The chapters, most based upon recent fieldwork in Central America, examine the role of women in Maya society, their place in the political hierarchy and lineage structures, the gendered division of labor, and the discrepancy between idealized Mayan womanhood and the daily reality, among other topics. In each case, the complexities and nuances of gender relations is highlighted and the limitations of our knowledge acknowledged. These pieces represent an important advance in the understanding of Maya socioeconomic, political, and cultural life--and the archaeology of gender--and will be of great interest to scholars and students.

Author : Krystyna Deuss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN : 1788082451

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Cofradías by Krystyna Deuss Pdf

Author : Matthew G. Looper
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292778184

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To Be Like Gods by Matthew G. Looper Pdf

Winner, Association for Latin American Art Book Award, 2010 The Maya of Mexico and Central America have performed ritual dances for more than two millennia. Dance is still an essential component of religious experience today, serving as a medium for communication with the supernatural. During the Late Classic period (AD 600-900), dance assumed additional importance in Maya royal courts through an association with feasting and gift exchange. These performances allowed rulers to forge political alliances and demonstrate their control of trade in luxury goods. The aesthetic values embodied in these performances were closely tied to Maya social structure, expressing notions of gender, rank, and status. Dance was thus not simply entertainment, but was fundamental to ancient Maya notions of social, religious, and political identity. Using an innovative interdisciplinary approach, Matthew Looper examines several types of data relevant to ancient Maya dance, including hieroglyphic texts, pictorial images in diverse media, and architecture. A series of case studies illustrates the application of various analytical methodologies and offers interpretations of the form, meaning, and social significance of dance performance. Although the nuances of movement in Maya dances are impossible to recover, Looper demonstrates that a wealth of other data survives which allows a detailed consideration of many aspects of performance. To Be Like Gods thus provides the first comprehensive interpretation of the role of dance in ancient Maya society and also serves as a model for comparative research in the archaeology of performance.

Author : Rosemary A. Joyce,Lynn M. Meskell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317724544

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Embodied Lives: by Rosemary A. Joyce,Lynn M. Meskell Pdf

Examining a wide range of archaeological data, and using it to explore issues such as the sexual body, mind/body dualism, body modification, and magical practices, Lynn Meskell and Rosemary Joyce offer a new approach to the Ancient Egyptian and Mayan understanding of embodiment. Drawing on insights from feminist theory, art history, phenomenology, anthropology and psychoanalysis, the book takes bodily materiality as a crucial starting point to the understanding and formation of self in any society, and sheds new light on Ancient Egyptian and Maya cultures. The book shows how a comparative project can open up new lines of inquiry by raising questions about accepted assumptions as the authors draw attention to the long-term histories and specificities of embodiment, and make the case for the importance of ancient materials for contemporary theorization of the body. For students new to the subject, and scholars already familiar with it, this will offer fresh and exciting insights into these ancient cultures.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:82776704

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MAYA CULTURE AND COSTUME by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mireille Holsbeke,Julia Montoya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN : UIUC:30112070787681

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With Their Hands and Their Eyes by Mireille Holsbeke,Julia Montoya Pdf

Author : Joanne Calkins,Jim Chapman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798218115050

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Changing Costumes by Joanne Calkins,Jim Chapman Pdf

Guatemalan Mayan textiles include some of the world's most intricate and colorful weavings made on a simple "loom of sticks", the backstrap loom. Each Indigenous town traditionally has its distinctive native costume with a synthesis of design elements of the dress of the Ancient Mayas, of the 17th and 18th century Spanish dress and later of European and American influences.This memoir was written as the photographers, Joanne Calkins and her husband, Jim Chapman, sat in their camper in various locations in Guatemala in 1990-1991. The couple researched and documented the changes in the native costumes in 80 Mayan towns by comparing the contemporary styles and usage with those painted and described by Carmen Pettersen in the 1970's. In 1990 the Civil War was raging, women were beginning to get paid work outside the home and other political and economic factors were making change inevitable in the lives of Indigenous people. This book should be read as history, describing a moment in time of the constant evolution of the native costumes. Joanne and Jim in their four-wheel-drive pickup with camper traveled to the towns, interviewed weavers and vendors and photographed them and their works.This book will be of interest to those who appreciate fiber arts and the artisans who make them, those who want to know about Guatemalan and Mayan history, those who study cultural change in traditional cultures and those who enjoy a good story about independent travel and adventure.

Author : Matthew G. Looper
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781477318072

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The Beast Between by Matthew G. Looper Pdf

The first book to focus on the multifaceted images of deer and hunting in ancient Maya art, from the award-winning author of To Be Like Gods: Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization. Winner, CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019 The white-tailed deer had a prominent status in Maya civilization: it was the most important wild-animal food source at many inland Maya sites and also functioned as a major ceremonial symbol. Offering an in-depth semantic analysis of this imagery, The Beast Between considers iconography, hieroglyphic texts, mythological discourses, and ritual narratives to translate the significance and meaning of the vibrant metaphors expressed in a variety of artifacts depicting deer and hunting. Charting the importance of deer as a key component of the Maya diet, especially for elites, and analyzing the coupling of deer and maize in the Maya worldview, The Beast Between reveals a close and long-term interdependence between the Maya and these animals. Not only are deer depicted naturalistically in hunting and ritual scenes, but also they are assigned human attributes. This rich imagery reflects the many ways in which deer hunting was linked to status, sexuality, and war as part of a deeper process to ensure the regeneration of both agriculture and ancestry. Drawing on methodologies of art history, archaeology, and ethnology, this illuminating work is poised to become a key resource for multiple fields.

Author : Arthur Demarest
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0521533902

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Ancient Maya by Arthur Demarest Pdf

Ancient Maya comes to life in this new holistic and theoretical study.

Author : Daniel Delis Hill
Publisher : Daniel Delis Hill
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780986425493

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History of World Dress and Fashion, Second Edition by Daniel Delis Hill Pdf

The History of World Dress and Fashion presents a comprehensive survey of dress from around the world including China, Japan, India, Africa, the Islamic Empire, and the Ancient Americas. This extensive study features descriptions and analysis of men’s, women’s and children’s clothing, accessories, and cultural styles from prehistory into the twenty-first century. Lavishly illustrated in color throughout, it features more than 1600 images - and is a valuable resource for fashion designers, theater costumers, textile researchers, costume collectors and curators, and anyone interest in clothing and style customs of the world.

Author : Nicholas Carter,Stephen Houston,Franco Rossi
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477320709

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The Adorned Body by Nicholas Carter,Stephen Houston,Franco Rossi Pdf

The Adorned Body is the first truly comprehensive book on what the ancient Maya wore, a systematic survey of dress and ornaments, from head to toe and everything in between.