Moche art and visual culture in ancient Peru
By: Margaret A. Jackson.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780826343659
Subjects: Mochica pottery -- Themes, motives; Picture-writing -- Peru; Peru -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Social and cultural contexts of Moche art; title: Introduction: toward a Moche epigraphy; title: Moche art: social contexts, functions, and religious underpinnings; title: Production of ceramic imagery; title: Interpretation of Moche iconographic configurations; title: Issues of iconographic analysis; title: Mold technology and the formation of semantic units; title: Muchic and the linguistic analogy; title: Hybrid presentational syntax in moche iconography; title: Concluding comments.