Gold and power in ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia
Subtitle: a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 9 and 10 October 1999
By: Jeffrey Quilter and John W. Hoopes, editors.
Contributors: Quilter, Jeffrey, 1949-; Hoopes, John W.; Dumbarton Oaks.
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
Subjects: Indian goldwork -- Central America -- Congresses.; Indian goldwork -- South America -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the golden bridge of the Darién / Jeffrey Quilter; title: "Catching the light" : technologies of power and enchantment in Pre-Columbian goldworking / Nicholas J. Saunders; title: Goldwork and Chibchan identity : endogenous change and diffuse unity in the Isthmo-Colombian area / John W. Hoopes and Oscar M. Fonseca Z.; title: Who crafted, exchanged, and displayed gold in Pre-Colombian Panama? / Richard Cooke ... [et al.]; title: From jade to gold in Costa Rica : how, why, and when / Michael J. Snarskis; title: Metallurgy, balls, and stone statuary in the Diquís Delta, Costa Rica : local production of power symbols / Patricia Fernández and Ifigenia Quintanilla; title: The political economy of Pre-Colombian gold works : four examples from northern South America / Carl Henrik Langebaek; title: Creation imagery in the goldwork of Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia / Mark Miller Graham; title: Gold, stone, and ideology : symbols of power in the Tairona tradition of northern Colombia / Warwick Bray; title: The seed of life : the symbolic power of gold-copper alloys and metallurgical transformations / Ana María Falchetti; title: Gold in the everyday lives of indigenous peoples of sixteenth-century southern Central America / Eugenia Ibarra.