Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 33, Spring 1998
Pre-Columbian States of Being
Edited by Francesco Pellizzi
Pre-Columbian States of Being
Presentation
Jeffrey Quilter
How the Huacas Were: The Language of Substance and Transformation in the Huarochirí Quechua Manuscript
Frank Salomon
When Utensils Revolt: Mind, Matter, and Modes of Being in the Pre-Columbian Andes
Catherine J. Allen
A Sacred Effigy from Mina Perdida and the Unseen Ceremonies of the Peruvian Formative
Richard L. Burger and Lucy Salazar-Burger
Where Maize May Grow: Jade, Chacmools, and the Maize God
Mary Miller and Marco Samayoa
The Ancient Maya Self: Personhood and Portraiture in the Classic Period
Stephen Houston and David Stuart
Sculptural Representation and Self-Reference in a Carved Maya Panel from the Region of Tabasco, Mexico
Adam Herring
The Ontology of Being and Spiritual Power in the Stone Monument Cults of the Lowland Maya
Elizabeth Newsome
The Person, Destiny, and the Construction of Difference in Mesoamerica
John Monaghan
Performing the Body in Pre-Hispanic Central America
Rosemary Joyce
Sexual Politics in the Aztec Palace: Public, Private, and Profane
Susan Toby Evans
Themes of Drunkenness, Violence, and Factionalism in Tlaxcalan Altar Paintings
John Pohl
The Nahualli of Christ: The Trinity and the Nature of the Soul in Ancient Mexico
Jill Leslie McKeever Furst
Stealers of Light, Traders in Brilliance: Amerindian Metaphysics in the Mirror of Conquest
Nicholas J. Saunders
Francesco Pellizzi is Associate of Middle American Ethnology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. He is also Chair of the University Seminar on the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Columbia University, and Senior Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University.