Chicago, IL, Estados Unidos : Art Institute of Chicago, c1998.

308 p. : il. ; 30 cm.

I. The Teuchitlan tradition: an archaeological prospect. -- The Teuchitlan tradition: rise of a statelike society. -- Excavating the tomb at Huitzilapa. -- Mortuary practices in the shaft-tomb region. -- II. Interpreting the tomb sculptures of ancient West Mexico. -- Food for the dead: the West Mexican art of feasting. -- Before gods, before kings. -- Sacred sun centers. -- The West Mexican ballgame. -- Shamanistic symbolism, transformation, and deities in West Mexican funerary art. -- The iconography of rulership in ancient West Mexico. -- III. Comparative views. -- Natural resources and human settlements in ancient West Mexico. -- The Sayula Basin: ancient settlements and resources. -- They came to trade exquisite things: ancient West Mexican-Ecuadorian contacts. -- The evolution of complex societies in West Mexico: a comparative perspective. -- IV. A modernist perspective. -- West Mexican art and modernist artists. --

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Tomado de Amazon: "This volume documents the splendid accomplishments of Ancient West Mexico, and brings together some of its finest examples of sculptural art, including representations of people, animals and plants, as well as vessels and models of houses, ceremonial centres, ball games and ritual scenes. All the extraordinary earthenware figures illustrated here have been recovered from burial sites and shaft tombs. They represent a wide range of subjects - warriors, chieftains, ladies, acrobats, shamans, musicians, ball players, festival couples and bound prisoners - in a variety of styles from about 200 BC to AD 800 - that compose the artistic canon of Ancient West Mexico, a region encompassing the modern states of Colima, Jalisco and Nayarit." --