Rock Art in the Americas: Mythology Cosmogony and Rituals - Proceedings of the 2nd REEA Conference Ritual Americas: Configurations and Recombining of the Ritual Devices and Behaviors in the New World, in Historical and Contemporary Societies Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) April 2-5, 2008 (Paperback, New)

Contents: Introduction (Francoise Fauconnier and Serge Lemaitre); 1) Rock art sites as spiritual places ? Canadian Shield rock art as part of the Algonquian sacred landscape (Daniel Arsenault); 2) Thunderbirds and Horned Snakes: Cosmogony at Canadian Rock Art Sites (Serge Lemaitre); 3) Cueva de la Serpiente: Interpretive Analysis of an Archaic Great Mural Rock Art Panel, Mulege, Baja California Sur, Mexico (Roberto Martinez, Larissa Mendoza and Ramon Vinas); 4) El Salto del Perro, Durango, Mexico: La construccion de un paisaje sagrado en los confines de Mesoamerica (Fernando Berrojalbiz y Marie-Areti Hers); 5) Paisaje y petrograbados del sitio de la Ferreria, Durango, Mexico (Jose Luis Punzo Diaz); 6) Imagenes de guerreros en el arte rupestre del norte de Michoacan. Una aproximacion a los ritos de los cazadores recolectores del Posclasico (Brigitte Faugere); 7) The Cave of the Bat, a Primordial Cave of the Sun, Acapulco, Mexico (Martha Cabrera Guerrero); 8) Myths and Oral Tradition in the Study of Rock Art: High Plains of Cundinamarca-Boyaca, Past Ethnohistory and Country Folk Tradition (Guillermo Munoz C.); 9) The Rock Art of the Bochica Route. Possible Connections between Oral Tradition and Sense and Function of Rock Art (Judith Trujillo Tellez); 10) El arte rupestre del rio San Juan del Oro (Bolivia): Reflexiones sobre el simbolismo y la funcion de las imagenes (Francoise Fauconnier).

General

Imprint:	Bar Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	British Archaeological Reports International Series
Release date:	December 2012
First published:	December 2012
Editors:	Francoise Fauconnier • Serge Lemaitre
Dimensions:	297 x 210 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	138
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-4073-1052-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > Art of indigenous peoples Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4073-1052-6
Barcode:	9781407310527

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