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Ancient Panama

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Author : Mary W. Helms
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-03-19

Ancient Panama written by Mary W. Helms and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-19 with Social Science categories.

Ancient Panama adds depth to our understanding of the political and religious elite ruling in Panama at the time of the European conquest. Mary W. Helms's research greatly expands knowledge of the distribution, extent, and structural nature of these pre-Columbian chiefdoms. In addition, Helms delves more deeply into select aspects of ancient Panamanian political systems, including the relationship between elite competition and chiefly status, the use of sumptuary goods in the expression of elite power, and the role of elites in regional and long-distance exchange networks. In a significant departure from traditional thinking, she proposes that the search for esoteric knowledge was more important than economic trade in developing long-distance contact among chiefdoms. The primary data for the study are derived from sixteenth-century Spanish records by Oviedo y Valdés, Andagoya, Balboa, and others. The author also turns to ethnographic data from contemporary native people of Panama, Colombia, tropical America, and Polynesia for analogy and comparison. The result is a highly innovative study which illuminates not only pre-Columbian Panamanian elites but also the nature of chiefdoms as a distinctive cultural type.

Ecology And The Arts In Ancient Panama

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Author : Olga F. Linares
language : en
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
Release Date : 1977

Ecology And The Arts In Ancient Panama written by Olga F. Linares and has been published by Dumbarton Oaks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with History categories.

Linares reinterprets the Classic rank-societies of the central Panamanian provinces using archaeological, ecological, iconographic, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic evidence, and concludes that the art of this area used animal motifs as a metaphor for the qualities of aggression and hostility characteristic of local social and political life.

To Capture The Sun

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Author : Richard G. Cooke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011

To Capture The Sun written by Richard G. Cooke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Coclé (Panama : Province) categories.

Written to accompany an upcoming exhibition, To Capture the Sun: Gold of Ancient Panama explores the Gilcrease Museum's collection of Pre-Columbian gold for the first time since its acquisition in the 1940s. More than a beautifully illustrated exhibit catalogue, this volume includes essays by leading scholars who use the Gilcrease collection to discuss the rise of metallurgy in the Western Hemisphere, the symbolic significance of gold in Gran Coclé culture, and the influence of Pre-Columbian gold on world economies.

The Curassow S Crest

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Author : Mary W. Helms
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000

The Curassow S Crest written by Mary W. Helms and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Social Science categories.

"This work is groundbreaking not only because of the logic behind the interpretation of ancient Panama polychrome ceramics but also because of its methodological thoroughness."--Lisa J. Lucero, New Mexico State University The native peoples of pre-Columbian Panama are famous for their gold and ceramic artifacts. In this illustrated work Mary Helms, continuing her well-known study of symbols in early Panamanian ceramics, further decodes and interprets the cosmology of this art as depicted in the geometric forms and stylized and abstract animal figures painted on plates, trays, and bowls. Analyzing ceramic wares dating ca. A.D. 500-1000 and excavated from the Sitio Conte in central Panama in the 1930s, Helms identifies basic design motifs and argues that they suggest a number of basic ideological themes. Often found at burial sites, including the richly furnished graves of persons of apparently high rank, the ceramics depict themes suggestive of Amerindian myths of the origins of the cosmos, its fundamental realms, and its basic operational principles. Helms's study incorporates scientific data on animals and speculates about the reasons certain animals (for example, the curassow and the iguana) were important symbols. Because many of the designs and themes Helms discusses suggest parallels with Mexican and Mayan art and iconography and with Amazonian belief systems, and because her interpretations come from myths of the native peoples of Panama, Costa Rica, and northern South America, the scope of this important study has considerable relevance beyond Panama. Anthropologists, archaeologists, prehistorians, and art historians will find it especially useful. Mary W. Helms, professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is the author of Creations of the Rainbow Serpent and Access to Origins.

Creations Of The Rainbow Serpent

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Author : Mary W. Helms
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995

Creations Of The Rainbow Serpent written by Mary W. Helms and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Animals in art categories.

This volume explores the multicolored Cocle ceramic wares excavated at the Sitio Conte in central Panama during the 1930s. Many of which were unearthed in caches and burials of elite figures.

The Legends And Stories Of Old Panama

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Author : Ernesto de Jesús Castillero Reyes Castillero R.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999

The Legends And Stories Of Old Panama written by Ernesto de Jesús Castillero Reyes Castillero R. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Legends categories.

Gold And Power In Ancient Costa Rica Panama And Colombia

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Author : Jeffrey Quilter
language : en
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
Release Date : 2003

Gold And Power In Ancient Costa Rica Panama And Colombia written by Jeffrey Quilter and has been published by Dumbarton Oaks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.

The lands between Mesoamerica and the Central Andes are famed for the rich diversity of ancient cultures that inhabited them. Throughout this vast region, from about AD 700 until the sixteenth-century Spanish invasion, a rich and varied tradition of goldworking was practiced. The amount of gold produced and worn by native inhabitants was so great that Columbus dubbed the last New World shores he sailed as Costa Rica—the "Rich Coast." Despite the long-recognized importance of the region in its contribution to Pre-Columbian culture, very few books are readily available, especially in English, on these lands of gold. Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia now fills that gap with eleven articles by leading scholars in the field. Issues of culture change, the nature of chiefdom societies, long-distance trade and transport, ideologies of value, and the technologies of goldworking are covered in these essays as are the role of metals as expressions and materializations of spiritual, political, and economic power. These topics are accompanied by new information on the role of stone statuary and lapidary work, craft and trade specialization, and many more topics, including a reevaluation of the concept of the "Intermediate Area." Collectively, the volume provides a new perspective on the prehistory of these lands and includes articles by Latin American scholars whose writings have rarely been published in English.