| Contents |
Approaching Mesoamerican figurines / Katherine A. Faust and Christina T. Halperin -- Rethinking figurines / Joyce Marcus -- Honduran figurines and whistles in social context: production, use, and meaning in the Ulúa Valley / Jeanne Lopiparo and Julia A. Hendon -- Formative period Gulf Coast ceramic figurines: the key to identifying sex, gender, and age groups in Gulf Coast Olmec imagery / Billie J. A. Follensbee -- Identity, gender, and power: representational juxtapositions in early formative figurines from Oaxaca, Mexico / Jeffrey P. Blomster -- Early Olmec figurines from two regions: style as cultural imperative / David Cheetham -- Crafting the body beautiful: performing social identity at Santa Isabel, Nicaragua / Geoffrey G. McCafferty and Sharisse D. McCafferty -- New fire figurines and the iconography of penitence in Huastec art / Katherine A. Faust -- The beautiful, the bad, and the ugly: aesthetics and morality in Maya figurines / Rhonda Taube and Karl Taube -- The weeping baby and the Nauha corn spirit: the human body as key symbol in the Huasteca Veracruzana, Mexico / Alan R. Sandstrom -- Alien bodies, everyday people, and hollow spaces: embodiment, figurines, and social discourse in postclassic Mexico / Elizabeth M. Brumfiel and Lisa Overholtzer -- Sex in the city: a comparison of Aztec ceramic figurines to Copal figurines from the Templo Mayor / Cecelia F. Klein and Naoli Victoria Lona -- Figurines as bearers of and burdens in late classic Maya state politics / Christina T. Halperin -- Making a world of their own: Mesoamerican figurines and Mesoamerican figurine analysis / Rosemary A. Joyce. |
