ISBN10: 0816538441, ISBN13: 9780816538447, [publisher: University of Arizona Press, Tucson] Hardcover Hardcover. Mesoamerican communities, past and present, are characterized by their strong inclination toward color and their expert utilization of the natural environment in order to create dyes and paints. In pre-Hispanic times, skin was among the preferred surfaces on which coloring materials would be applied. Archaeological research as well as historical and iconographic evidence show that in Mesoamerica the human bodyalive or deadwas the recipient of various kinds of treatments and procedures intended to color it. Painting the Skin brings together exciting research on painted skinshuman, animal, and vegetalin Mesoamerica. Contributors explore the materiality, uses, and cultural meanings of the colors applied on a multitude of skins, including bodies, codices made of hide and vegetal paper, and even building ""skins."" Chapters offer physicochemical analysis and compare compositions, manufactures, and attached meanings of pigments and colorants across various social and symbolic contexts and registers. They also compare these colors with those used in other ancient cultures from both the Old and New Worlds. This cross-cultural perspective reveals crucial similarities and differences in the way cultures have painted on skins of all types. Examining color in Mesoamerica broadens understandings of Native religious systems and world views. Tracing th ...
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ISBN10: 0816538441, ISBN13: 9780816538447, [publisher: University of Arizona Press] Hardcover
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