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- Human Figuration and Fragmentation in Preclassic Mesoamerica
- Human Figuration and Fragmentation in Preclassic Mesoamerica
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Preclassic Figuration
- 2 Monumental Sculpture and the Human Form during the Early and Middle Preclassic Periods
- 3 Early and Middle Preclassic Figuration in Clay
- 4 Figurines at Middle Preclassic La Blanca
- 5 Figurines, Fragmentation, and Social Ties
- 6 Changing Discourses of Human Representation in Late Preclassic Mesoamerica
- 7 High Culture and Human Representation in Late Preclassic Mesoamerica
- Epilogue
- Notes
- References
- Index
Epilogue
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 February 2020
- Human Figuration and Fragmentation in Preclassic Mesoamerica
- Human Figuration and Fragmentation in Preclassic Mesoamerica
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Preclassic Figuration
- 2 Monumental Sculpture and the Human Form during the Early and Middle Preclassic Periods
- 3 Early and Middle Preclassic Figuration in Clay
- 4 Figurines at Middle Preclassic La Blanca
- 5 Figurines, Fragmentation, and Social Ties
- 6 Changing Discourses of Human Representation in Late Preclassic Mesoamerica
- 7 High Culture and Human Representation in Late Preclassic Mesoamerica
- Epilogue
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
The brief Epilogue summarizes the main points of the book, which centered on analysis of the significance of representation of the human body in Preclassic Mesoamerica. It concludes that the fragmentation of the human body reveals as much about the significance of figuration as any pristine representation, and that the corpus of imagery underscores the fact that the personhood, in ancient Mesoamerica, was partible. The human body in Preclassic Mesoamerica was socially constructed not only in a theoretical domain; these notions were given figural form through the diverse representations that were sculpted, molded, manipulated, erected, and deliberately broken through the duration of the Preclassic period.
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- Human Figuration and Fragmentation in Preclassic MesoamericaFrom Figurines to Sculpture, pp. 167 - 168Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020