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1 online resource (329 pages) |
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Cover; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword: Skin-Deep / Stephen Houston; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Colors and the Skin in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica / Élodie Dupey García and María Luisa Vázquez de ágredos Pascual; Part I. Coloring Alive and Dead Bodies: Materiality and Significance of Mesoamerican Corporal Painting; 1. Painting the Skin in Ancient Mesoamerica / María Luisa Vázquez de ágredos Pascual; 2. Materiality and Meaning of Medicinal Body Colors in Teotihuacan / María Luisa Vázquez de ágredos Pascual, Sélim Natahi, Véronique Darras, and Linda R. Manzanilla Naim |
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3. Painting the Dead in the Northern Maya Lowlands / Vera Tiesler, Kadwin Pérez López, and Patricia Quintana Owen4. Body Colors and Aromatics in Maya Funerary Rites / María Luisa Vázquez de ágredos Pascual, Cristina Vidal Lorenzo, Patricia Horcajada Campos, and Vera Tiesler; 5. Body Color and Body Adornment at Chichén Itzá / Virginia E. Miller; 6. The Yellow Women: Naked Skin, Everyday Cosmetics, and Ritual Body Painting in Postclassic Nahua Society / Élodie Dupey García |
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7. The Colors of the Desert: Ritual and Aesthetic Uses of Pigments and Colorants by the Guachichil of Northern Mexico / Olivia KindlPart II. Illuminating Animal and Vegetal Skins: Chromatic Palettes and Meaning in Pre-Columbian Codices; 8. Coloring Materials, Technological Practices, and Painting Traditions: Cultural and Historical Implications of Nondestructive Chemical Analyses of Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican Codices / Davide Domenici, Costanza Miliani, David Buti, Brunetto Giovanni Brunetti, and Antonio Sgamellotti |
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9. The Study of Color in the Colombino Codex: An Experimental Approach / Tatiana Falcón10. Preliminary Investigation on the Codex Borbonicus: Macroscopic Examination and Coloring Materials Characterization / Fabien Pottier, Anne Michelin, Anne Genachte-Le Bail, Aurélie Tournié, Christine Andraud, Fabrice Goubard, Aymeric Histace, and Bertrand Lavédrine; 11. Convergence and Difference in the Borgia Group Chromatic Palettes / Élodie Dupey García and María Isabel Álvarez Icaza Longoria |
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12. Making and Using Colors in the Manufacture of Nahua Codices: Aesthetic Standards, Symbolic Purposes / Élodie Dupey García13. Skin of Walls: Plaster Practices Across Maya Books, Buildings, and People / Franco D. Rossi; Epilogue: The Painted Skin, a Cultural and Sensorial Legacy / María Luisa Vázquez de ágredos Pascual and Élodie Dupey García; References; Contributors; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Cosmetics -- Mexico -- History -- To 1500
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Indians of Mexico -- Social life and customs.
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Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian)
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mexican -- History -- To 1500
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Cosmetics
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mexican
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Indians of Mexico -- Social life and customs
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Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian)
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Mexico
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual, María Luisa
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| ISBN |
9780816539093 |
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081653909X |
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