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100	1		_aTate, Carolyn E.
245	1	0	_aReconsidering Olmec Visual Culture : _bThe Unborn, Women, and Creation.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aAustin : _bUniversity of Texas Press, _c2012.
264		4	_c©2012.
300			_a1 online resource (360 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aThe William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere Series
505	0		_aIntro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Rediscovering Women and Gestation in Olmec Visual Culture -- A Cradle of Civilization -- Mesoamerica and Its Visual Culture -- Early Interpretations of the First Known Olmec Sculptures -- New Questions in Olmec Studies -- Is Gender or Gestation the Compelling Issue -- How the Book Develops: Content and Methodologies -- 2. The Tale of the Were-Jaguar -- The Birth of the Were-Jaguar -- One Were-Jaguar or Many Deities? -- The First Attempt to Slay the Were-Jaguar -- The Were-Jaguar as a Shamanic Alter Ego -- Monstrous Congenital Anomalies -- Pantheons of Deities or Symbols of Vital Forces? -- Shamanism in an Ecological Context -- The Rebirth of the Maize Deity -- Signs of Life -- 3. The Sowing and Dawning of the Human-Maize Seed -- Images of the Unborn -- The Formative Mesoamerican Embryo and Its Matrix of Associations -- Ethnographic Analogies -- Hollow Babies -- A Contemporary Baby in a Boat: Niñopa -- Conclusions about Embryos, Fetuses, and Babies -- 4. Tracking Gender, Gestation, and Narrativity Through the Early Formative -- The Archaic Period, 10,000 to 2000 BC: The Beginning of Visual Symbols -- The Initial Formative, circa 1900 to 1400 BC -- The Early Formative, circa 1400-900 BC -- Fluctuations in Visual Culture During the Initial and Early Formative Periods -- Discussion: Maize Technology I: Fermentation -- Discussion: Maize Technology II: Nixtamalization -- 5. La Venta's Buried Offerings: Women and Other Revelations -- Topography and Sources of Stone -- Discovery, Excavation, and Chronology of La Venta -- Surveying La Venta's Visual Culture Through Time -- Women and the Unborn Return to Prominence -- 6. Female Water and Earth Supernaturals: The Massive Offerings, Mosaic Pavements, and Mixe "Work of the Earth" -- Why Construct the Massive Offerings?.
505	8		_aMixe Beliefs in Earth, Water, and Thunder Supernormal Entities -- La Venta's Mosaic Pavements -- Offerings Inseminating the Flowering Earth -- Massive Offerings: Contained Water -- Mixe Healers, Midwives, and Rituals, and Their Olmec Antecedents -- Female Shamans -- The Mosaic Pavements as Conventionalized Symbols -- Politics, Protection, and Healing -- 7. A Processional Visual Narrative at La Venta -- Previous Investigations of Olmec Creation Narratives -- Patterns for the Distribution of Monumental Sculptures -- A Processional Visual Narrative -- 8. La Venta's Creation and Origins Narrative -- An Approach to Visual Narratives from Preliterate Societies -- The Narrative Stations -- Station One: A Womb with Three Fetuses -- Station Two: A Quincunx of Thrones -- Station 3: The Dawning of Human-Maize -- Station 4: The Female Sources of Life: Earth and Water -- Station 5: The Bodiless Heads -- Station 6: The Phallic Column -- Inserting Politics into the Creation and Origins Narrative -- Alternative Reading Orders -- Conclusions and Questions -- 9. A Scattering of Seeds -- Assessing Arguments for Some Major Points -- Modes of Communication -- Where Did Olmec Ideas Go? -- Asking and Answering the Fundamental Questions -- Appendix 1. La Venta Monuments by Format -- Appendix 2. Comparison of Mesoamerican Creation and Origins Narratives -- Appendix 3. Shape-Shifters and Werewolves to Were-Jaguars: A Brief Chronology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
520			_aNo detailed description available for "Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture".
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aOlmec art.
650		0	_aOlmec sculpture.
650		0	_aOlmec mythology.
650		0	_aIndian women in art.
650		0	_aLa Venta Site (Mexico).
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aTate, Carolyn E. _tReconsidering Olmec Visual Culture _dAustin : University of Texas Press,c2012 _z9780292728523
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		4	_aThe William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere Series
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