The Art and Iconography of Late Post-Classic Central Mexico

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1982 8vo (23.5 cm), X, 254 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Papers presented at the October 22-23, 1977 conference at Dumbarton Oaks. Contents include: "Introduction: the importance of late Post-Classic central Mexico for Mesoamerican studies" by H. B. Nicholson; "Tlazolteotl-Ixcuina: the great spinner and weaver" by Thelma D. Sullivan; "Analysis of the Aztec Quechquemitl: an exercise in inference" by Patricia Anawalt; "The formal pattern of anthropomorphic sculpture and the ideology of the Aztec State" by Felipe R. Solís Olguín; "Malinalco and the lords of Tenochititlan" by Richard F. Townsend; "Aztec legal process: the case of Texcoco" by Jerome A. Offner; "Archaeology and the art of Mexican picture writing" by Bodo Spranz; "The interpretation of postures and gestures in the Mixtec codices" by Nancy P. Troike; "Skeletonization in Mixtec art: a re-evaluation" by Jill Leslie Furst; "The Mixteca-Puebla concept revisited" by H. B. Nicholson.