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A pre-Columbian world

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From a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks 6 and 7 October 2001.

Contents

The defining sample : how we pursue the pre-Columbian past / Elizabeth Hill Boone
On pre-Columbian narrative : representation across the word-image divide / Simon Martin
Glimpses of a common cosmos? : a brief look south and north from Panama / Mary W. Helms
Salient representations of the American past / Warren R. DeBoer
Exploring the Mississippian big bang at Cahokia / Robert L. Hall
Bringing the rain : an ideology of rain making in the Pueblo Southwest and Mesoamerica / Polly Schaafsma and Karl A. Taube
Teotihuacan in Mesoamerican political history / Enrique Florescano
History, memory, and knowledge in Andean visual imagery : the intersection of art, architecture, and landscape / Tom D. Dillehay and Ramiro Matos
Animal transformations : the mixing of Maya and European fantasy and belief / Anna Blume
The study of the pre-Columbian world / Mary Miller.

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