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Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture: The Unborn, Women, and Creation (The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere) by Carolyn E. Tate [Tate, Carolyn E.] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Recently, scholars of Olmec visual culture have identified symbols for umbilical cords, bundles, and cave-wombs, as well as a significant number of women portrayed on monuments and as figurines. In this groundbreaking study, Carolyn Tate demonstrates that these subjects were part of a major emphasis on gestational imagery in Formative Period Mesoamerica. In Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture, she identifies the presence of women, human embryos, and fetuses in monuments and portable objects dating from 1400 to 400 BC and originating throughout much of Mesoamerica. This highly original study sheds new light on the prominent roles that women and gestational beings played in Early Formative societies, revealing female shamanic practices, the generative concepts that motivated caching and bundling, and the expression of feminine knowledge in the 260-day cycle and related divinatory and ritual activities.<br> Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture is the first study that situates the unique hollow babies of Formative Mesoamerica within the context of prominent females and the prevalent imagery of gestation and birth. It is also the first major art historical study of La Venta and the first
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- Author
- Carolyn E. Tate [Tate, Carolyn E.]
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780292735491
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Art, History
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (3 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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