Mesoamerican Figurines [electronic resource] : Small-Scale Indices of Large-Scale Social Phenomena /
Society for American Archaeology.Meeting(71st :2006 :San Juan, P.R.)
Braunstein Symposium(1st :Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History)
Halperin, Christina T.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2009.
These small, often ceramic objects are commonly found at many archaeological sites. They appear in the shape of humans, supernatural beings, animals, and buildings. Mesoamerican Figurines brings together many seasoned and respected scholars of art history, archaeology, ethnohistory, anthropology, and social theory to analyze these objects by their stylistic attributes, archaeological content, function, and meaning.
Papers originally presented at two symposia; one was held as part of the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the other was the first annual Braunstein Symposium held at the Marjorie Barrick Museum at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

These small, often ceramic objects are commonly found at many archaeological sites. They appear in the shape of humans, supernatural beings, animals, and buildings. Mesoamerican Figurines brings together many seasoned and respected scholars of art history, archaeology, ethnohistory, anthropology, and social theory to analyze these objects by their stylistic attributes, archaeological content, function, and meaning.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Mayas
Indians of Central America
Indians of Mexico
Pottery figures
Pottery figures
Maya pottery.
Indian pottery
Indian pottery