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Tables of Contents for Ancient West Mexico
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Lenders to the Exhibition
6
1
Foreword
7
1
Acknowledgments
8
7
Introduction Renewing the Inquiry in Ancient West Mexico
15
20
Richard F. Townsend
PART I: THE TEUCHITLAN TRADITION: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECT
35
54
The Teuchitlan Tradition: Rise of a Statelike Society
35
18
Phil C. Weigand
Christopher S. Beekman
Excavating the Tomb at Huitzilapa
53
18
Lorenza Lopez Mestas Camberos
Jorge Ramos de la Vega
Mortuary Practices in the Shaft-Tomb Region
71
18
Robert B. Pickering
Maria Teresa Cabrero
PART II: INTERPRETING THE TOMB SCULPTURES OF ANCIENT WEST MEXICO
89
116
Food for the Dead: The West Mexican Art of Feasting
89
18
Kristi Butterwick
Before Gods, Before Kings
107
30
Richard F. Townsend
Sacred Sun Centers
137
14
Christopher L. Witmore
The West Mexican Ballgame
151
18
Jane Stevenson Day
Shamanic Symbolism, Transformation, and Deities in West Mexican Funerary Art
169
22
Peter T. Furst
The Iconography of Rulership in Ancient West Mexico
191
14
Mark Miller Graham
PART III: COMPARATIVE VIEWS
205
62
Natural Resources and Human Settlements in Ancient West Mexico
205
12
Otto Schondube
The Sayula Basin: Ancient Settlements and Resources
217
16
Francisco Valdez
They Came to Trade Exquisite Things: Ancient West Mexican-Ecuadorian Contacts
233
18
Patricia Rieff Anawalt
The Evolution of Complex Societies in West Mexico: A Comparative Perspective
251
16
Joseph B. Mountjoy
PART IV: A MODERNIST PERSPECTIVE
267
16
West Mexican Art and Modernist Artists
267
16
Barbara Braun
Catalogue of the Exhibition
283
8
Notes
291
8
Bibliography
299
7
Contributors
306
2
Photography Credits
308