Icons of Power (eBook, ePUB)

Feline Symbolism in the Americas
Redaktion: Saunders, Nicholas J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Icons of Power investigates why the image of the cat has been such a potent symbol in the art, religion, and mythology of indigenous American cultures for three thousand years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136605130
• Artikelnr.: 39294829

Autorenporträt

Nicholas J. Saunders has held research fellowship and teaching positions in Mexico, the USA, Trinidad, Jamaica and the United Kingdom. He is currently a Visiting Fellow in the archaeology department at Southampton University.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: Icons of power 2 Architecture of symbolism: The feline
image 3 The lord, the ruler: Jaguar symbolism in the Americas 4 The Felidae
in Pre-Columbian Panama: A thematic approach to their imagery and symbolism
5 Feline symbolism and material culture in prehistoric Colombia 6 The
jaguar of the backward glance 7 Paragon or peril? The jaguar in Amazonian
Indian society 8 Felines, patronyms and history of the Araucanians in the
southern Andes 9 Mountain Lions and Pueblo shrines in the American
Southwest