Drawing on an extensive set of images, this text examines the practical, ritual, and mythic importance of animals in pre-Columbian life and thought as well as the meanings that animals still have for the modern descendants of those indigenous peoples.
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Drawing on an extensive set of images, this text examines the practical, ritual, and mythic importance of animals in pre-Columbian life and thought as well as the meanings that animals still have for the modern descendants of those indigenous peoples.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xix, 162pp., index, biblio., notes, ill., map. "An engaging overview of the depiction of animals in the pre-Columbian art of Latin America. Drawing on an extensive set of images, many of them previously unpublished, Benson examines the practical, ritualistic, and mythic importance of animals in pre-Columbian life as well as the meanings that animals still have for the modern descendants of those indigenous peoples."
