Offerings for a new life
Subtitle: funerary images from pre-Columbian West Mexico
By: catalogue edited by Mireille Holsbeke, Karel Arnaut with contributions by Richard F. Townsend ... [et al.].
Contributors: Holsbeke, Mireille.; Arnaut, Karel.; Townsend, Richard F.; Etnografisch Museum (Antwerp, Belgium)
Publisher: Antwerp Ethnographic Museum
Published: 1998
Place of publication: [Antwerp]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Indian art -- Mexico -- Exhibitions.; Mexico -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-214).
Exhibition held June 6-Sept. 6, 1998 at Etnografisch Museum, Antwerp, Belgium.
Table of contents: title: Plea for respect -- Mireille Holsbeke; title: Ancient West Mexico : archaeology and the art of the tombs -- Richard F. Townsend; title: Mesoamerica, West Mexico and the ball game -- Ted J.J. Leyenaar; title: Shamanism and the 'Andean connection' in West Mexican funerary art and architecture -- Peter T. Furst; title: Heart of the world : the conceptual integrity of West and Central Mexico -- Anthony A. Shelton; title: Pre-Columbian artefacts and the post-Newtonian sciences -- Ilya Prigogine -- Catalogue.