Houston, Stephen D. (19..-…. ; anthropologue). Auteur
Brittenham, Claudia. Auteur
Mesick, Cassandra. Auteur
Stephen Houston serves as Paul Dupee Family Professor of Social Science at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Claudia Brittenham holds a Ph.D. in the History of Art from Yale University and is now a member of the Michigan Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan.
Cassandra Mesick is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at Brown University.
Alexandre Tokovinine is Research Associate, Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.
Christina Warinner is preparing her doctoral dissertation in anthropology at Harvard University.
Sommaire
Prologue
Chapter One. Seeing Color
Sensing Color
Theorizing Color in the West
Comparative Theories of Color
Colorizing Mesoamerica
A Book on Maya Color
Chapter Two. Naming Color
Simplex Terms
Complex Terms
Organization of Colors
Maya Color Terms
Red
White
Black
Yellow
Yax
Maya Terminology
Chapter Three. Making Color
Prime Colorants
Feathers
Flowers
Shells
Spondylus
Mother-of-Pearl and Pearl
Stones
Jade
Nonjade Greenstones
Obsidian
Turquoise
Reflective Stones: Pyrite, Hematite, and Mica
Translucent Stones
Manufactured Colorants
Dyes
Pigments and Paints
Blacks
Whites
Reds, Yellows, and Browns
Blues and Greens
Ceramics: A Special Case
Making Maya Color
Chapter Four. Using Color
Approaches and Limitations
The Preclassic and Early Classic: Colors of the Earth
Red, Black, and White
The Late Preclassic: New Colors
The Early Classic: Tradition and Retrenchment
Color Use in the Preclassic and Early Classic
The Late Early Classic and the Rise of Maya Blue
Experiments in Ceramics
The Invention of Maya Blue
Architectural Color
The Conservative Colors of Death
Color Use in the Late Early Classic
The Late Classic: Naturalism and Its Dissenters
The Naturalistic Revolution
Color and Dimension
Rejections of Polychromy
Color Use in the Late Classic
The Terminal Classic: Rupture and Reinventions
The Postclassic: The Colors of the Gods
Early Postclassic: Five Basic Colors
Late Postclassic: The “International Style”
The “Blue-and-Black Style”
Color Contrasts
Color Use in the Postclassic
Using Color
Epilogue: A History of Maya Color
Appendix: Dyes and Organic Colorants of the Maya and Aztecs
Bibliography
Index
Informations pratiques
Éditeur : Austin : University of Texas press
Date de parution : 2009
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XI-148 p.) : ill. en coul., jaquette ill. en coul. ; 29 cm
Collection : (The William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western hemisphere)