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Figurines as Representations and Products at Paso de la Amada, Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2009

Richard Lesure
Richard Lesure
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Anthropology Department, University of California, Los Angeles, 341 Haines Hall, Box 951553, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1553, USA
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Abstract

It is useful to view ceramic figurines from the Early Formative site of Paso de la Amada, Mexico, as both representations and products. That analysis links changes in a tradition of small, solid figurines to the rise of a novel social discourse concerning the elaboration and beautification of the human body. An increasing symbolic emphasis on the body may have been an important backdrop to the emergence of chiefly ideologies in the region.

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Cambridge Archaeological Journal , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , October 1999 , pp. 209 - 220
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Copyright © The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 1999

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