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The art of urbanism : how Mesoamerican kingdoms represented themselves in architecture and imagery
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The art of urbanism : how Mesoamerican kingdoms represented themselves in architecture and imagery

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Contains the results of the Dumbarton Oaks 2005 Pre-Columbian Symposium held at the Museo del Templo Mayor in Mexico City.

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Early Olmec architecture and imagery / Ann Cyphers and Anna Di Castro
People of the Cerro : landscape, settlement, and art at middle formative period Chalcatzingo / David C. Grove and Susan D. Gillespie
How Monte Albán represented itself / Joyce Marcus
Centering the kingdom, centering the king : Maya creation and legitimation at San Bartolo / William A. Saturno
Cholula : art and architecture of an archetypal city / Gabriela Uruñuela y Ladrón de Guevara, Patricia Plunket Nagoda, and Amparo Robles Salmerón
A mountain god in Teotihuacan art / Zoltán Paulinyi
The House of New Fire at Teotihuacan and its legacy in Mesoamerica / William L. Fash, Alexandre Tokovinine, and Barbara W. Fash
Watery places and urban foundations depicted in Maya art and architecture / Barbara W. Fash
Social identity and cosmology at El Tajín / Rex Koontz
Four hundred years of settlement and cultural continuity in epiclassic and early postclassic Tula / Alba Guadalupe Mastache, Dan M. Healan, and Robert H. Cobean
The face of the Itzas / William M. Ringle and George J. Bey III
The Mexica in Tula and Tula in Mexico-Tenochtitlan / Leonardo López Luján and Alfredo López Austin
Configuration of the sacred precinct of Mexico-Tenochtitlan / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
Summary: Cities as cosmological art : the art of politics / Davíd Carrasco.

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