Women's ritual in formative Oaxaca
Subtitle: figurine-making, divination, death, and the ancestors
By: Joyce Marcus.
Series: Prehistory and human ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca ;; v. 11; Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan ;; no. 33
Publisher: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
Subjects: Zapotec women -- Rites and ceremonies.; Zapotec women -- Religion.; Zapotec pottery -- Mexico -- Oaxaca Valley -- Themes, motives.; Pottery figures -- Mexico -- Oaxaca Valley -- Themes, motives.; Ancestor worship -- Mexico -- Oaxaca Valley.; Fertility, Human, in art.; Oaxaca Valley (Mexico) -- Antiquities.; San José Mogote (Mexico) -- Antiquities.
Notes: Includes summary in Spanish.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-326) and index.