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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael D Coe; Princeton University. Art Museum.; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.; et al |
| ISBN: | 0810963116 9780810963115 0943012198 9780943012193 |
| OCLC Number: | 34103154 |
| Notes: | Catalog of an exhibition held Dec. 16, 1995-Feb. 25, 1996 at the Art Museum, Princeton University, and Apr. 14-June 9, 1996 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. |
| Description: | xi, 344 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 x 30 cm. |
| Contents: | Foreword and Acknowledgments / Allen Rosenbaum -- Preparing the Way / David A. Freidel -- Olmec Archaeology / Richard A. Diehl and Michael D. Coe -- Art, Ritual, and Rulership in the Olmec World / F. Kent Reilly, III -- Art in Olmec Culture / Carolyn E. Tate -- Shamanism, Transformation, and Olmec Art / Peter T. Furst -- The Rainmakers: The Olmec and Their Contribution to Mesoamerican Belief and Ritual / Karl A. Taube -- The Olmec Mountain and Tree of Creation in Mesoamerican Cosmology / Linda Schele -- Rocks and Minerals Employed by the Olmec as Carvings / George E. Harlow -- Catalogue of the Exhibition. |
| Responsibility: | with essays by Michael D. Coe ... [et al.] ; principal photographers, John Bigelow Taylor, Justin Kerr and Bruce M. White. |
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