TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dupey García,Élodie
AU  - Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual,María Luisa
TI  - Painting the Skin: Pigments on Bodies and Codices in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
SN  - 9780816539093
AV  - GT2341 
U1  - 391.6/3097201 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Tucson
PB  - University of Arizona Press
KW  - Cosmetics-Mexico-History-To 1500
KW  - Indians of Mexico-Social life and customs
KW  - Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian)
KW  - Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mexican-History-To 1500
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword: Skin-Deep / Stephen Houston -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Colors and the Skin in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica / Élodie Dupey García and María Luisa Vázquez de ágredos Pascual -- Part I. Coloring Alive and Dead Bodies: Materiality and Significance of Mesoamerican Corporal Painting -- 1. Painting the Skin in Ancient Mesoamerica / María Luisa Vázquez de ágredos Pascual -- 2. Materiality and Meaning of Medicinal Body Colors in Teotihuacan / María Luisa Vázquez de ágredos Pascual, Sélim Natahi, Véronique Darras, and Linda R. Manzanilla Naim -- 3. Painting the Dead in the Northern Maya Lowlands / Vera Tiesler, Kadwin Pérez López, and Patricia Quintana Owen -- 4. Body Colors and Aromatics in Maya Funerary Rites / María Luisa Vázquez de ágredos Pascual, Cristina Vidal Lorenzo, Patricia Horcajada Campos, and Vera Tiesler -- 5. Body Color and Body Adornment at Chichén Itzá / Virginia E. Miller -- 6. The Yellow Women: Naked Skin, Everyday Cosmetics, and Ritual Body Painting in Postclassic Nahua Society / Élodie Dupey García -- 7. The Colors of the Desert: Ritual and Aesthetic Uses of Pigments and Colorants by the Guachichil of Northern Mexico / Olivia Kindl -- Part II. Illuminating Animal and Vegetal Skins: Chromatic Palettes and Meaning in Pre-Columbian Codices -- 8. Coloring Materials, Technological Practices, and Painting Traditions: Cultural and Historical Implications of Nondestructive Chemical Analyses of Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican Codices / Davide Domenici, Costanza Miliani, David Buti,   Brunetto Giovanni Brunetti, and Antonio Sgamellotti -- 9. The Study of Color in the Colombino Codex: An Experimental Approach / Tatiana Falcón; 10. Preliminary Investigation on the Codex Borbonicus: Macroscopic Examination and Coloring Materials Characterization / Fabien Pottier, Anne Michelin, Anne Genachte-Le Bail, Aurélie Tournié, Christine Andraud, Fabrice Goubard, Aymeric Histace, and Bertrand Lavédrine -- 11. Convergence and Difference in the Borgia Group Chromatic Palettes / Élodie Dupey García and María Isabel Álvarez Icaza Longoria -- 12. Making and Using Colors in the Manufacture of Nahua Codices: Aesthetic Standards, Symbolic Purposes / Élodie Dupey García -- 13. Skin of Walls: Plaster Practices Across Maya Books, Buildings, and People / Franco D. Rossi -- Epilogue: The Painted Skin, a Cultural and Sensorial Legacy / María Luisa Vázquez de ágredos Pascual and Élodie Dupey García -- References -- Contributors -- Index
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