TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pasztory, Esther
PY  - 1997
DA  - 1997//
TI  - Teotihuacan: an experiment in living
PB  - University of Oklahoma Press
CY  - Norman
KW  - Indian art
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Teotihuacán San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico) Teotihuac´n Site (San Juan Teotihuac´n, Mexico)
KW  - Central Mexico Classic
KW  - Historical reconstruction
KW  - Visual arts
KW  - Theoretical orientation in research and its results
KW  - Dwellings
KW  - Religious and educational structures
KW  - Cities
KW  - Spirits and gods
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Prayers and sacrifices
AB  - This monograph is a study by by Esther Pasztory of Teotihuacan based on an approach that the author calls structural and semiotic analysis. She analyzes the symbols expressed by the pyramid, the gods, the precinct of power, the apartment compound, painting, ceramics, and the representation of the human body. Immersed in the study of symbols, the work adopts the perspective that art is a reflection of the society that created it and is a mirror in which ideals can be perceived that do not always coincide with the reality producing them (p. xv).
SN  - 080612847X
UR  - https://ehrafarchaeology.yale.edu/document?id=nu92-004
LA  - English
N1  - by Esther Pasztory ; foreword by Enrique Florescano
ID  - nu92-004
Y1  - 2021-01-28
ER  -