Book
The Recuay culture: a reconstruction based on artistic motifs
University Microfilms International • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1997 • Pages:
By: Smith, John Williamson.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this dissertation the author uses an art historical approach to the comparative method to analyze Peruvian art styles of the late Early Horizon through the early Middle Horizon periods in order to reconstruct the Early Intermediate Period (200 B.C.-600 A.D.) Recuay culture -- the primary focus of this work. The art styles of prior, coeval, and subsequent cultures contiguous to the Recuay area in the north highlands of Peru were analyzed and compared as units or cultural wholes (p.vii). Pashash, in the Department of Ancash, Peru, was the site chosen by Smith to act in the role of control or type matrix for the Recuay style. Artistic products from sites in the adjacent Callejon de Huaylas, the heartland of the Recuay culture, were then incorporated to formulate an expanded definition of the Recuay culture as a construct. Then the Recuay art style, including ceramic material and modes of manufactue, techniques of ceramic decoration and the resultant motifs, stone sculpture style and motifs, and architectural construction style and forms, was compared to the art syles of temporally or spatially related Peruvian cultures (pp.vii-viii).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Woven and other interworked fabrics
- Ceramic technology
- Lithic industries
- Visual arts
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Cultural stratigraphy
- Typologies and classifications
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Andean Regional Development
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Andes
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- NotesAdditional notes
- by John Williamson Smith, Jr.
- UM 7900636
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-361)
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Texas at Austin
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of South America--Antiquities