H 276 x W 203 mm
424 pages
Spanish text
Published Oct 2023
Archaeopress Access Archaeology
ISBN
Paperback: 9781803275574
Digital: 9781803275581
Keywords
Mesoamerica; Epiclassic period; Central Highlands; cultural interactions; prestige; power; otherness; visual culture; material culture; Cacaxtla-Xochitécatl; Xochicalco; Cholula
Related titles
Paris Monographs in American Archaeology 60
Paperback
£65.00
The mural paintings of Cacaxtla offer the starting point for a discussion of cultural interactions and the fabrication of prestige. After the disintegration of the Teotihuacán system, this book considers how city-states of the Central Highlands transformed their material culture to construct new political discourses to establish local authority.
Juliette Testard holds a PhD in archaeology from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and is a research engineer at the CNRS in the "Archéologie des Amériques" laboratory. She studies the figurative representations of the Mesoamerican Highlands during the Epiclassic period (600 to 900 AD) since 2006 to understand the way these societies constructed their ideological and political universe and, in particular, their otherness. She explored the interaction and affiliation with the distant through material and visual culture in her doctoral thesis defended in 2014, for which she received the PhD prize of the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac (2015), Paris. This book constitutes the translation of an updated version of that university work. She is the author of several articles and book chapters and has organized several scientific events concerning the Epiclassic visual and cultural culture.
en español
Juliette Testard es doctora en arqueología por la Universidad de París 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne e ingeniera de investigación del CNRS en el laboratorio "Archéologie des Amériques". Estudia las representaciones figurativas del Altiplano Central mesoamericano durante el periodo Epiclásico (600 a 900 d.C.) desde el 2006 para entender la forma en que estas sociedades construyeron su universo ideológico y político y, en particular, sus alteridades. Exploró la interacción y afiliación con lo lejano a través de la cultura material y visual en su tesis doctoral defendida en 2014, por la que recibió el premio de tesis del Museo del Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac (2015), París. Este libro constituye la traducción de una versión actualizada de aquel trabajo universitario. Es autora de varios artículos y capítulos de libros y ha organizado varios eventos científicos acerca de la cultura visual y material del Epiclásico.