A pre-Columbian world
By: Jeffrey Quilter and Mary Miller, eds.
Contributors: Quilter, Jeffrey, 1949-; Miller, Mary Ellen.; Dumbarton Oaks.
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection; Distributed by Harvard University Press; Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9780884023159
Subjects: Indians -- Antiquities -- Congresses; America -- Antiquities -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: From a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks 6 and 7 October 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The defining sample : how we pursue the pre-Columbian past / Elizabeth Hill Boone; title: On pre-Columbian narrative : representation across the word-image divide / Simon Martin; title: Glimpses of a common cosmos? : a brief look south and north from Panama / Mary W. Helms; title: Salient representations of the American past / Warren R. DeBoer; title: Exploring the Mississippian big bang at Cahokia / Robert L. Hall; title: Bringing the rain : an ideology of rain making in the Pueblo Southwest and Mesoamerica / Polly Schaafsma and Karl A. Taube; title: Teotihuacan in Mesoamerican political history / Enrique Florescano; title: History, memory, and knowledge in Andean visual imagery : the intersection of art, architecture, and landscape / Tom D. Dillehay and Ramiro Matos; title: Animal transformations : the mixing of Maya and European fantasy and belief / Anna Blume; title: The study of the pre-Columbian world / Mary Miller.