Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction: Gods, Ancestors, and Human Beings / Brigitte Faugere and Christopher S. Beekman
1. Pretty Face and Naked Body in Context: Meanings and Uses of Chupicuaro Figurines (Guanajuato) during the Late Formative / Brigitte Faugere
2. Unseating the Shaman: Narrative Performance and Co-Essences in the Hollow Figures of Western Mexico / Christopher S. Beekman
3. Gender and Paired Ceramic Figures in Late Formative West Mexico / Melissa K. Logan
4. Sexuality and Regeneration in the Underworld: Earth Sculptures in the Cueva del Rey Kong-Oy, Sierra Mixe, Oaxaca / Marcus Winter
5. Costumes and Puppets among Cholula’s Early Classic Figurines and the Formation of Social Worlds / Gabriela Urunuela and Patricia Plunket
6. Unmasking Tlaloc: The Iconography, Symbolism, and Ideological Development of the Teotihuacan Rain God / Andrew D. Turner
7. The Nature of the Old God of Teotihuacan: Why Would the Old God Be Represented by an Elderly Human Body? / Claire Billard
8. Epiclassic Figurines of Xochitécatl, Tlaxcala, Mexico: Hypotheses on Their Social Lives and Their Ideological Relevance / Juliette Testard and Mari Carmen Serra Puche
9. All the Earth Is a Grave: Ancestors and Symbolic Burials at Tula / Cynthia Kristan-Graham
10. Representing the Human Body in Postclassic Central Mexico: A Study of Proportions and Their Evolution in the Aztec Pictorial Tradition / Sylvie Peperstraete
11. The Notion of Substitutionin Aztec Kingship / Daniele Dehouve
Contributors
Index