Children of the plumed serpent : the legacy of Quetzalcoatl in ancient Mexico /

Title:

Children of the plumed serpent : the legacy of Quetzalcoatl in ancient Mexico /

Author:

Fields, Virginia M.

Published:

London : Los Angeles, CA : New York, NY : 2012.

Format:

Book

Institution:

MassArt

Contents:

Children of the plumed serpent: the legacy of Quetzalcoatl in ancient Mexico / John M.D. Pohl, Virginia M. Fields and Victoria I. Lyall -- The burned palace of Tula: its offerings and probable function / Stephan Castillo Bernal -- Quetzalcoatl and Xipe Totec: a new discovery at Tula / Luis M. Gamboa Cabezas -- Bright, shiny and new: plumbate pottery and the emergence of early postclassic exchange networks / Victoria I. Lyall -- Cacao and commerce in postclassic Mesoamerica / Janine Gasco -- Under the volcano: the rise of Cholula / Gabriela Uruñuela and Patricia Plunket -- The kingdom and pilgrimage center of Cholula / Michael Lind -- The odyssey of the plumed serpent / John M.D. Pohl -- The effigy censers of Mayapan / Victoria I. Lyall -- The meaning of shell ornaments from northeastern Mesoamerica / Javier Urcid -- Symbols of power: Mixtec metalworking / Martha Carmona Macías -- Ahuitzotl and his conquests in the kingdoms of Oaxaca / Bertina Olmedo Vera -- To endure three thousand years: the Mixtecs of Yucundaa, Oaxaca and America / Ronald Spores -- The Franciscans in Cholula / Gabriela Urunuela and Patricia Plunket -- The Mixtec nobility in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / John Monaghan -- Bells, bombs, music and magic: Mayordomías and social cohesion in Cholula / Timothy J. Knab -- Plumes and serpents on a Huipil / Alejandro de Ávila Blomberg.

Online access:

No online access

Library holdings:

MassArt Main
F1219.3.A7 F54 2012 – Available