000449307 000__ 05385cam\a2200493Ia\4500 000449307 001__ 449307 000449307 005__ 20210513155101.0 000449307 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000449307 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000449307 008__ 120921s2012\\\\txuab\\\ob\\\s001\0\eng\d 000449307 010__ $$z 2011021407 000449307 019__ $$a859673365$$a929158713$$a932314255$$a961524760$$a962705106$$a988442379$$a988456553$$a991919378$$a995045060 000449307 020__ $$a9780292735491$$q(electronic book) 000449307 020__ $$z0292728522 000449307 020__ $$z9780292728523 000449307 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn774399224 000449307 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10565394 000449307 035__ $$a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443601 000449307 035__ $$a449307 000449307 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$cCaPaEBR 000449307 05014 $$aF1219.8.O56$$bT37 2012eb 000449307 1001_ $$aTate, Carolyn Elaine. 000449307 24510 $$aReconsidering Olmec visual culture$$h[electronic resource] :$$bthe unborn, women, and creation /$$cby Carolyn E. Tate. 000449307 250__ $$a1st ed. 000449307 260__ $$aAustin :$$bUniversity of Texas Press,$$c2012. 000449307 300__ $$a1 online resource (xvii, 339 p.) :$$bill., maps. 000449307 4901_ $$aThe William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere 000449307 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000449307 5050_ $$aRediscovering women and gestation in Olmec visual culture. A cradle of civilization ; Mesoamerica and its visual culture ; Early interpretations of the first known Olmec sculptures ; New questions in Olmec studies ; Is gender or gestation the compelling issue? ; How the book develops : content and methodologies -- The tale of the were-jaguar. The birth of the were-jaguar ; One were-jaguar or many deities? ; The first attempt to slay the were-jaguar ; The were-jaguar as a shamanic alter ego ; Monstrous congenital anomalies ; Pantheons of deities or symbols of vital forces? ; Shamanism in an ecological context ; The rebirth of the maize deity ; Signs of life -- The sowing and dawning of the human-maize seed. Images of the unborn ; The formative Mesoamerican embryo and its matrix of associations ; Ethnographic analogies ; Hollow babies ; A contemporary baby in a boat : Niñopa ; Conclusions about embryos, fetuses, and babies -- Tracking gender, gestation, and narrativity through the early formative. The archaic period, 10,000 to 2000 BC : the beginning of visual symbols ; The initial formative, circe 1900 to 1400 BC ; The early formative, circa 1400-900 BC ; Fluctuations in visual culture during the initial and early formative periods ; Discussion : Maize technology. 1, Fermentation ; Discussion : Maize technology. 2, Nixtamalization -- La Venta's buried offerings : women and other revelations. Topography and sources of stone ; Discovery, excavation, and chronology of La Venta ; Surveying La Venta's visual culture through time ; Women and the unborn return to prominence -- Female water and earth supernaturals : the massive offerings, mosaic pavements, and Mixe "work of the earth". Why construct massive offerings? ; Mixe beliefs in earth, water, and thunder supernormal entities ; La Venta's mosaic pavements ; Offerings inseminating the flowering earth ; Massive offerings : contained water ; Mixe healers, midwives, and rituals, and their Olmec antecedents ; Female shamans ; The mosaic pavements as conventionalized symbols ; Politics, protection, and healing -- A processional visual narrative at La Venta. Previous investigations of Olmec creation narratives ; Patterns for the distribution of monumental sculptures ; A processional visual narrative -- La Venta's creation and origins narrative. An approach to visual narratives from preliterate societies ; The narrative stations (Station one: A womb with three fetuses ; Station two: A quincunx of thrones ; Station three: The dawning of human-maize ; Station four: The female sources of life : earth and water ; Station five: The bodiless heads ; Station six: The phallic column) ; Inserting politics into the creation and origins narrative ; Alternative reading orders ; Conclusions and questions -- A scattering of seeds. Assessing arguments for some major points ; Modes of communication ; Where did Olmec ideas go? ; Asking and answering the fundamental questions -- Appendix 1. La Venta monuments by format -- Appendix 2. Comparison of Mesoamerican creation and origins narratives -- Appendix 3. 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