...David Buisseret The Worlds of Christopher Columbus . By Phillips William D. Jr , and Phillips Carla Rahn . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1992 . Plates. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 322 pp. Cloth . $27.95 . Kingdoms of Gold, Kingdoms of Jade...

...Michael D. Coe Pre-Columbian Jade from Costa Rica . By Easby Elizabeth Kennedy . Foreword by Emmerich André . Photographs by Boltin Lee . New York , 1968 . André Emmerich . Illustrations. Map. Notes. Bibliography . Pp. 103 . Paper. $5.00 . Copyright 1971 by Duke...

... manufacture, identifying the approximate dates of style changes to the last known example in 1821. Aztec and Colombian metal work are discussed in articles by Dudley Easby and William C. Root, Olmec and Maya jade in articles by M. W. Stirling and Elizabeth Easby. The clay figurines of western Sonora...

..., Discovering the Olmecs , David Grove makes a good case that 1954 was that turning point. The modern-day story of this ancient culture began with powerful charismatic objects like the large jade celt that George Kunz of Tiffany had acquired in Oaxaca during the nineteenth century. But despite decades...

... originated in the Mixteca Alta rests on one jade axe and one stone monument with a trapezoidal mouth, neither one scientifically excavated. Olmec studies are advancing rapidly and a mass of field work still awaits a more general treatment. Wicke seems to have the tools for that work, but is here treating...

... ; Market System Development in the Prehispanic Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, G ary F einman , R ichard B lanton , and S tephen K owalewski ; Exchange in Formative Highland Oaxaca, M arcus C. W inter ; Hallucinogenic Mushrooms, Jade, Obsidian, and the Guatemalan Highlands: What Did the Olmecs Really Want? K...

... Mexican Democracy represents a significant updating and modification of the original work published in 1971 by the now defunct Allyn and Bacon series on Latin American politics. In the manner of that previous work the book retains its critical—occasionally jaded—perspective of the Mexican government’s...

... 1970 To their great amazement, the Spanish conquerors found that in Mexican eyes the most precious objects were not of gold, but rather were fashioned from various green stones which eventually came to be known as “jade.” As the author shows in her very useful summary of ethnohistoric sources...

..., but I like them just the way they are. Perhaps Mr. Brenton’s years at the Sorbonne in Paris, Oxford University in England, or in Manila conditioned him to many environments. Whatever it was, he has adjusted himself to life in a new and different country and rekindled the jaded spirit that he had...

... expressed in an original, reiterative, and highly symbolic art form. More detailed chapters discuss Mayan literature, architecture, sculpture, painting, music, theater and dance, and minor arts, such as weaving, ceramics, basketry, jade and metalcraft, mosaics, feather-work, engraved stones, seals...

...—for he must have been a king—had been wearing a mask of jade mosaic . . .”); occasionally we may entertain doubts as to the universal applicability of a hypothesis she seems to accept without question (e.g., on p. 118: “With the breakdown of the theocratic society, the deities would logically become...

... on this subject for the first time will wonder from time to time, as the text unfolds, if the Spanish Army, or Spain itself, will survive at all! Even a jaded professor such as myself had to give “three cheers” on finishing the last page of the text. And the final sentence is one that clearly leads to further...

... both to remind jaded scholars and to stimulate neophyte students to explore at first hand that treasure trove of original accounts from which these snippets were drawn. ...

... de los mejores gobernantes de Honduras” and compare Villeda’s orientation to that “que el doctor Arévalo dió a Guatemala y José Figueres a Costa Rica.” Copyright 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 The third volume of an extensive Historia de Centroamérica , this item follows Los jades y...

...., as two peripheries of the larger light of Mesoamerica. Seven papers treat various aspects of Mesoamerican archeology, including Olmec jades in the Maya area (Andrews), the Olmec calendar round (Edmonson), an important interpretation of Mars astronomical tables in the Dresden Codex (Bricker and Bricker...

.... Finally, the late dates assigned to Costa Rican jades account neither for their association with Formative ceramics nor for their connection with the Olmec-derived lapidary tradition, as demonstrated in the new booklet by Elizabeth Easby. Many out-of-date concepts reappear in the discussion. Yon...

.... He demonstrates that the passage through the dank underworld and the moment of “resurrection” were illustrated on Maya ceramics and, in symbolic terms, in Olmec stone carvings and jades. At the same time, he notes that rebirth depended on ritual combat and human sacrifice. ...

... valuables (exotic objects and prestige goods such as jade, turquoise, cotton textiles, marine shell, and cacao). His conclusion encourages archaeologists to broaden their understanding of primitive valuables as generalized wealth that creates and reinforces inequality. David Freidel links the iconography...

... substance. While maize, chocolate, and jade have long been recognized as important commodities in ancient and modern Maya cultures, this volume proposes that tobacco held a similar role and continues to be highly prized. The contributors highlight the role of tobacco, originally domesticated in Peru...

... of jaded subjects to bargain with those invaders—whose own initial awe cannot be taught to our students solely as a rhetorical device. The Inca has other strengths. It attends to the pre-Hispanic role of Inca women and siblings, keeping alive important structuralist debates over the multiplicity...