Constructing, deconstructing, and reconstructing social identity
Subtitle: 2,000 years of monumentality in Teotihuacan and Cholula, Mexico : session proceedings of the 111th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association
By: volume editors, Saburo Sugiyama ... [et al.].
Contributors: Sugiyama, Saburo; Sugiyama, Saburo; Aichi Kenritsu Daigaku; Nihon Raten Amerika Gakkai
Publisher: Cultural Symbiosis Research Institute, Aichi Prefectural University
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Japan
Language: eng; jpn
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9784990347307
Subjects: Antiquities; Pyramids; Obsidian implements; Excavations (Archaeology); Indians of Mexico; Antiqutities; Gran Pirámide (Cholula de Rivadabia, Mexico)
Other titles: 2,000 years of monumentality in Teotihuacan and Cholula, Mexico; Two-thousand years of monumentality in Teotihuacan and Cholula, Mexico
Notes: "This volume contains studies presented at the session ... in the 111th Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) held in San Francisco in November 2012. The talk versions were extended and/or modified here...."--P. 1.

Added cover in Japanese; title and publisher information on t.p. also in Japanese.

Also includes two papers in Japanese presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Japan Association of Latin-American Studies in Nagoya, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contributions in English or Japanese; abstracts and summaries in either Japanese or English.
Table of contents: title: Creation and transformation of monuments in the ancient city of Teotihuacan / Saburo Sugiyama; title: The exploration of the tunnel under the Feathered Serpent Temple at Teotihuacan : first results / Sergio Gómez Chávez; title: Procurement, symbolism, and materialization : obsidian artifacts from Teotihuacan monuments / Shigeru Kabata and Yuta Chiba; title: Animals that reside in the sacred mountain and empowered monuments at Teotihuacan / Nawa Sugiyama; title: The Pyramid of the Sun after the fall of Teotihuacan : the importance and function of the Classic period monument during the Epiclassic period / Alejandro Sarabia González and Claudia López Pérez ; [translated by Kristin Sullivan]; title: In the shadow of the pyramids : the Postclassic Teotihuacan Valley / Deborah L. Nichols; title: A millennial legacy : the Teotihuacan Sun Pyramid as the central place in the centennial of Mexican independence, and the archaeology of State in Mexico / William L. Fash; title: Building the Tlachihualtepetl : the social and ideological foundations of the Great Pyramid of Cholula, Mexico / Gabriela Uruñuela, Patricia Plunket and Amparo Robles; title: Reinventing the millenial myth : the Great Pyramid of Cholula and the Virgin of the Remedies / Timothy J. Knab H.; title: History engraved on the urban landscape : formation of the sacred city and construction of traditional festivals in Cholula, Mexico / Takanori Kobayashi; title: Monuments, movement, and meaning : comments on 2,000 years of monumentality at Teotihuacan and Cholula / David M. Carballo; title: Reconstructing exchange systems : periphery vs. periphery, and periphery vs. core [English abstract title] / Shigeru Kabata; title: The two Marys and their children : reconstruction of the past in the festival city of Cholula [English abstract title] / Takanori Kobayashi.