The Role of gender in Precolumbian art and architecture
By: edited by Virginia E. Miller.
Contributors: Miller, Virginia E., 1948-; International Congress of Americanists (45th : 1985 : Bogotá, Colombia)
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Indian art.; Indian women.; Sex in art.; Indians -- Antiquities.; America -- Antiquities.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
English and Spanish.
Papers originally presented at a symposium at the 45th International Congress of Americanists, in Bogotá, Colombia, July, 1985.
Table of contents: title: The role of gender in Precolumbian art and architecture / Virginia E. Miller; title: Interpreting certain female images in prehistoric art / Anna C. Roosevelt; title: De la dualidad fertilidad-virilidad a lo explicitament femenino o masculino / Jorge G. Marcos and Mariella de Manrique; title: Gesture, role, and gender in west Mexican sculpture / Marilyn Goldstein; title: Women in Mochica art / Elizabeth P. Benson; title: Sacrifice and sexuality / Andrea Stone; title: Yesterday the queen wore / Karen O. Bruhns; title: Pachamama, Pachatata / Susan Niles; title: Birth images in Mixteca-Puebla art / Susan Milbrath; title: Women of ill-repute in the Florendine codex / Margaret C. Aevey.