... understanding of Peronism in new directions. First, it shows the economic, political, and iconographic centrality of food for state planning, commercial culture, public health, and definitions of social, national, and physical well-being. Second, the essay reinterprets nationalism and social entitlement...

..., show meticulously painted figures of gods and calendrical symbols and are therefore of extraordinary importance for the understanding of ancient Mexican religion. The five codices are stylistically and iconographically related, contain a number of thematically similar passages, and are based...

... eight Incas; the coya , wife of the Inca and descendant of Mama Ocllo; and the aellas (chosen women) who served the Inca and performed religious rites. Damian points to many iconographic transferals. Andean Virgins have triangular dresses, symbolic of mountains and thus of Pachamama (in one...

... illuminating essays, six appendixes, and two bibliographies. Based on strong archival documentation, the essays address Gómara's biography, sources, and the trajectory of the Historia and its morphosyntactic phenomena. The recently found documents on Gómara's life as well as an iconographic study stand out...

... in iconographic analysis of the images produced by Debret. That is, Lima’s emphasis falls much more on the “plume” than on the “brush” of the French artist. Lima’s book lacks internal coherence or narrative unity, as evident in the absence of a conclusion. Throughout the book, and especially in the last...

... the period of Spanish colonial rule. Lara deftly highlights the iconographic transformations that occurred when Saint Francis traveled to the Andes as an agent of religious conversion. Countless processional sculptures produced in Peru and Bolivia feature Saint Francis with silver wing attachments, while...

... than was known in 1943. In view of this, the thinness of the historical material is perhaps acceptable, although it is difficult to accept the labelling of “Artistic Background” for a section that is, in fact, iconographical and devotional and not artistic at all. The slight effort to discuss...

... of advances in epigraphy, improved archaeological techniques, and detailed iconographic analyses—all on display here—this Mesoamerican “new history” is the single most important intellectual event in the field in recent times. It is this transitional period after the fall of the great city that occupies...

... of the human body are found. The second section consists of four chapters that investigate identity and social narrative through iconographic analyses and intertextuality. The first chapter, by Shelia and Thomas Pozorski, is an exploration of iconographic variability in early figurines associated...

... biographical data on four of the best known wood carvers and an iconographical guide to the identification of the subject matter of retablos and bultos. The author, José Espinosa, is well versed in his subject and is himself a descendant of the people who created this art. Designed for both popular...

... Fuente, Benson, Heizer and Gullberg, Carlson, Furst, Joralemon, Griffin, and Quirarte), and synthesis (Drucker). The paper by L. A. Parsons on Epi-Olmec southern Pacific Coast and highland sculptural styles incorporates archaeological data, stylistic and iconographic analysis, and synthesis. Almost all...

... sketched plans of page layouts with identifications of figures and signs. The final section is a catalogue of the codices themselves (location, dimensions, commentary, and bibliography) and of their contents (calendrical elements, deities, other iconographic forms). This work is an important...

... convincing. Nicholson identifies the elements of the Aztec iconographic system and supplies a useful list of insignia for the major deities. Furst argues for the sacred character of ceramic figurines that come from the shaft tombs of West Mexico, by showing an extraordinary series of parallels...

..., ethnographic, iconographic, and epigraphic. The illustrations are well done and useful, and there is a helpful index. None of the “contributors” to the volume—the editors, Eugene R. Craine and Reginald C. Reindorp, or their precursors, Pío Pérez and Solís Alcalá—has a clear enough appreciation of the Mayan...

... surfeited by the rich architectural diet. The imaginary portrait of the friar Pedro de Gante is sympathetic and three-dimensional. The fact that Motolinía stuttered in Spanish but not in Nahuatl has interest, as have various iconographical detours. But too many anecdotes detract from the main purpose...

..., spiteful, and sometimes even vicious personal attacks on J. Eric Thompson, Maya archaeologists, and anthropologists as a group. It rapidly indoctrinates the reader with the idea that none but art historians, iconographers, epigraphers, or scientifically untrained (and thus “unspoiled”) “savants” have any...

... Hill Boone that emphasizes more recent scholarship and contributions, restores an important reference tool to scholars interested in the analysis of form and style in central Mexican codices. After brief introductory discussions about acculturation, classic problems of art history, iconographic...

... is richly illustrated with reproductions of maps, sketches, paintings, and photographs, all of which become an organic part of his exposition. The book closes with a list of the 780 nuclei of settlement known for colonial Chile and a truly fine iconographic appendix of maps, views, and photographs of cities...

..., without which “the full dimensions of life in the past cannot be seen until the images produced by written, material, and iconographic accounts are superimposed and articulated at the correct angles” (p. 296). Archaeology at La Isabela makes a strong case for this approach to the past. ...

... the mendicant orders influenced them, of how the pinturas used complex symbolization and iconographic representation, and of their inheritance of styles and designs from the prehispanic past. We learn that in many cases these maps portrayed elements of communal identity. Topography and toponymy combine...