New York : Thames and Hudson Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago, 1998.
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-305).
- pt. 1. The Teuchitlan tradition : an archaeological prospect. The Teuchitlan tradition : rise of a statelike society / Phil C. Weigand, Christopher S. Beekman — Excavating the tomb at Huitzilapa / Lorenza López Mestas Camberos, Jorge Ramos de la Vega — Mortuary practices in the shaft-tomb region / Robert B. Pickering, Maria Teresa Cabrero — pt. 2. Interpreting the tomb sculptures of ancient West Mexico. Food for the dead : the West Mexican art of feasting / Kristi Butterwick — Before gods, before kings / Richard F. Townsend — Sacred sun centers / Christopher L. Witmore — The West Mexican ballgame / Jane Stevenson Day — Shamanistic symbolism, transformation, and deities in West Mexican funerary art / Peter T. Furst — The iconography of rulership in ancient West Mexico / Mark Miller Graham.
- pt. 3. Comparative views. Natural resources and human settlements in ancient West Mexico / Otto Schöndube — The Sayula Basin : ancient settlements and resources / Francisco Valdez — They came to trade exquisite things : ancient West Mexican-Ecuadorian contacts / Patricia Rieff Anawalt — The evolution of complex societies in West Mexico : a comparative perspective / Joseph B. Mountjoy — pt. 4. A modernist perspective. West Mexican art and modernist artists / Barbara Braun.
- This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Ancient West Mexico: Art of the Unknown Past, ‘ organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and presented in the museum’s Regenstein Hall from September 5 to November 22, 1998. The exhibition was also presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from December 20 to March 29, 1999 –Title page verso.
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