Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 29 & 30, Spring/Autumn 1996

The Pre-Columbian

Edited by Francesco Pellizzi

    Editorial: The Pre-Columbian
    Francesco Pellizzi

    Creation Religion and the Numbers at Teotihuacan and Izapa
    Clemency Chase Coggins

    The Olmec Maize God: The Face of Corn in Formative Mesoamerica
    Karl Taube

    The Mesoamerican Cosmic Portal: An Early Zapotec Example
    Brian Stross

    An Aztec Gold Warrior Figurine (From The Cleveland Museum)
    Margaret Young-Sanchez

    Building a World-View: Visual Communication in Classic Maya Architecture
    William and Barbara Fash

    Kings of Stone: A Consideration of Stelae in Ancient Maya Ritual and Representation
    David Stuart

    Arquitectura y Escenografía en Palenque: Un Ritual de Entronización
    Claude-Francois Baudez

    Venus, Mercury, and the Sun: GI, GII, and GIII of the Palenque Triad
    Arthur Schlak

    The Zinacanteco Fiesta of San Sebastian: An Essay in Ethnographic Interpretation
    Evon Z. Vogt and Victoria R. Bricker

    Mimesis and Monumentalism in Native Andean Cities
    Alan L. Kolata

    The Body of Meaning in Chavin Art
    Gary Urton

    Sculpture and the Concept of the Double Among the Inca Kings
    Maarten Van De Guchte

    The Artistry of Guaman Poma
    Valerie Fraser

    Color and Creativity: Interpretation of Themes and Design Styles on a Panamanian Conte Bowl
    Mary W. Helms

    Lectures and Discussions
    Continuity and Disjunction in Pre-Columbian Art and Culture
    Jeffrey Quilter

    Aesthetics and Pre-Columbian Art
    Esther Pasztory

    Of Copies, Casts, and Codices: Mexico on Display in 1892
    Barbara Mundy and Dana Leibsohn

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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.