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Very Good + in very good- jacket. Mesoamerican Costumes from the Codices. 4to. xx, 232 pp. Bound in full blue cloth, in illustrated dust jacket. Profusely illustrated some in full color. Includes bibliography and index. First Edition stated on copyright page. Very Good+, some fading to extremities of binding, minor foxing to first few pages otherwise internally clean, in Very Good-dust jacket with tear to head of spine and top edge of front cover, fading and minor soiling to spine and extremities, long scratch to rear cover.
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Sells, Jean C. Fine in fine dust jacket. Like new condition; very tight and clean, obviously never used. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 232 p. Civilization of the American Indian (Hardcover). Audience: General/trade. Oversize hardcover in like new condition. 16 color plates.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Inscribed by the Author. 232 pages illustrations throughout. Inscribed by the author to her friend the previous owner, "For Anne, with gratitude, Fondly, Patty. September, 1981". Minor wear to the covers and edges. Foreword by H.B. Nicholson. Charts Prepared by Jean Cuker Sells. Bibliography. Index.
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Many illus., some in color. 4to, cloth, d.w.; (spine portion of d.w. sunned, previous owner's rubberstamp on front flyleaf). Univ. of Oklahoma Press, (1981).
In 1956 Patricia Rieff Anawalt made a trip to the archeological zone of Malinalco in Mexico. She watched the land regress in time as she traveled from cosmopolitan Mexico City through Tenancingo to Malinalco. What she observed is known as "aculturation." And what she felt was love. (Partly quoted from her introduction.) Her doctoral thesis on the subject was amplified to this book and is a seminal work in the description of the clothing of a multiplicity of cultures in one fairly small area that used clothing as important markers of people and their status. It is no little "descriptive" book. Careful use of the immediate post conquest codices (native pictoral books) and their glosses help her describe the outfits, the purposes and their use in a ranking society. Her knowledge of textiles and construction is very useful as she links and shows the many similar costumes through the world, both modern and archaic. The outfits have purposes beyond the simple act of covering oneself or protecting oneself and each set is carefully traced, described and it's importance ritually and laiclly is spoken of. The difficult levels of the military outfits, their meaning and their use in encouraging the members of the army to excell themselves, are all covered in detail. The materials available and used in each garment is also covered and so are the dies and techniques of construction. This book, it's meticulous research and detail is absolutely necessary to certain peoples. If you plan to write fiction in the era, are researching the Aztecs, or simply like to learn new things... Patricia R. Anawalt really comes through with the goods.
