Tiwanaku
Subtitle: papers from the 2005 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum
By: edited by Margaret Young-Sánchez
Contributors: Young-Sánchez, Margaret; Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art; Denver Art Museum
Series: Symposium series / Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian & Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum; Symposium series (Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art) -- 2005.
Publisher: Denver Art Museum
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Denver, CO]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780806199726
Notes: Papers originally presented at a symposium sponsored by the Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art, held Jan. 14-15, 2005 at the Denver Art Museum, in conjuction with the exhibition entitled Tiwanaku : ancestors of the Inca.

"A publication of the Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The development of the ritual core of Tiwanaku  -- Alexei Vranich; title: The power of an icon : references to the Gateway of the Sun from the 19th century to the present  -- Georgia de Havenon; title: Descendants of the sun : calendars, myth, and the Tiwanaku state  -- Leonardo Benitez; title: Tiwanaku iconography and the calendar  -- R.T. Zuidema; title: New perspectives on Tiwanaku iconography  -- Christiane Clados; title: The iconic dimension in Tiwanaku art  -- William J. Conklin; title: Royal statues, staff gods, and the religious ideology of the prehistoric state of Tiwanaku  -- Krysztof Makowski Hanula; title: SAIS, the origin, development, and dating of Tiahuanaco-Huari iconography  -- William H. Isbell and Patricia J. Knobloch; title: Wari and Tiwanaku borderlands  -- Patrick Ryan Williams; title: The bird and the camelid (or deer) : a ranked pair of Wari tapestry tunics  -- Susan E. Bergh; title: From Tiwanaku to Machu Picchu : ushnus and the architecture of creation -- John Hoopes.