Ecology and the Arts in Ancient Panama: On the Development of Social Rank and Symbolism in the Central Provinces (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology Studies Series) (v. 17) by Olga Linares
English | Jan. 1, 1977 | ISBN: 088402069X | 86 Pages | PDF | 1.55 MB
English | Jan. 1, 1977 | ISBN: 088402069X | 86 Pages | PDF | 1.55 MB
Olga Linares offers a reinterpretation of the Classic rank-societies of the central Panamanian provinces based on archaeological, ecological, iconographic, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic evidence, and concludes that the art style of this area used animal motifs as a metaphor in expressing the qualities of aggression and hostility characteristic of social and political life in the central provinces.