Landscape And Power In Ancient Mesoamerica

Rex Koontz teaches art history at the University of Texas at El Paso, and he is the author of essays on Ancient Mesoamerica, contemporary US-Mexico Border art, and non-Western aesthetics. Kathryn Reese-Taylor teaches archaeology at the University of Calgary, and she is the author of several articles on the pre-Hispanic Maya. Annabeth Headrick teaches art history at Vanderbilt University where she holds the position of Mellon Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Fine Arts. She has published on the iconography of Ancient Mesoamerican art. Rex Koontz teaches art history at the University of Texas at El Paso, and he is the author of essays on Ancient Mesoamerica, contemporary US-Mexico Border art, and non-Western aesthetics. Kathryn Reese-Taylor teaches archaeology at the University of Calgary, and she is the author of several articles on the pre-Hispanic Maya. Annabeth Headrick teaches art history at Vanderbilt University where she holds the position of Mellon Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Fine Arts. She has published on the iconography of Ancient Mesoamerican art. Rex Koontz teaches art history at the University of Texas at El Paso, and he is the author of essays on Ancient Mesoamerica, contemporary US-Mexico Border art, and non-Western aesthetics. Kathryn Reese-Taylor teaches archaeology at the University of Calgary, and she is the author of several articles on the pre-Hispanic Maya. Annabeth Headrick teaches art history at Vanderbilt University where she holds the position of Mellon Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Fine Arts. She has published on the iconography of Ancient Mesoamerican art.

• Foreword , Preface , The Cultural Poetics of Power and Space in Ancient Mesoamerica , What the Heck’s Coatépec? The Formative Roots of an Enduring Mythology , Procession Rituals and Shrine Sites: The Politics of Sacred Space In the Late Formative Valley of Oaxaca , Sacred Geography at Izapa and the Performance of Rulership , Dance Performances at Quiriguá , The Poetics of Power and Knowledge at La Venta , Merging Myth and Politics: The Three Temple Complex at Teotihuacan , A Model for Late Classic Community Structure at Copán, Honduras , The Form of Power: The Architectural Meaning of Building A of El Tajín , Political Rhetoric and the Unification of Natural Geography, Cosmic Space, and Gender Spheres , Mountain of Heaven, Mountain of Earth: The Great Pyramid of Cholula as Sacred Landscape , A Sense of Place at Chichén Itzá