{"product_id":"painting-the-skin-lodie-dupey-garca-9780816538447","title":"Painting the Skin: Pigments on Bodies and Codices in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica","description":"Mesoamerican communities past and present are characterized by their strong inclination toward color and their expert use of the natural environment to create dyes and paints. In pre-Hispanic times, skin was among the preferred surfaces on which to apply coloring materials. Archaeological research and historical and iconographic evidence show that, in Mesoamerica, the human body--alive or dead--received various treatments and procedures for coloring it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePainting the Skin\u003c\/i\u003e brings together exciting research on painted skins in Mesoamerica. Chapters explore the materiality, uses, and cultural meanings of the colors applied to a multitude of skins, including bodies, codices made of hide and vegetal paper, and even building \"skins.\" Contributors offer physicochemical analysis and compare compositions, manufactures, and attached meanings of pigments and colorants across various social and symbolic contexts and registers. They also compare these Mesoamerican colors with those used in other ancient cultures from both the Old and New Worlds. This cross-cultural perspective reveals crucial similarities and differences in the way cultures have painted on skins of all types. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Examining color in Mesoamerica broadens understandings of Native religious systems and world views. Tracing the path of color use and meaning from pre-Columbian times to the present allows for the study of the preparation, meanings, social uses, and thousand-year origins of the coloring materials used by today's Indigenous peoples. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contributors: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e María Isabel Álvarez Icaza Longoria \u003cbr\u003e Christine Andraud \u003cbr\u003e Bruno Giovanni Brunetti \u003cbr\u003e David Buti \u003cbr\u003e Davide Domenici \u003cbr\u003e Élodie Dupey García \u003cbr\u003e Tatiana Falcón Álvarez \u003cbr\u003e Anne Genachte-Le Bail \u003cbr\u003e Fabrice Goubard \u003cbr\u003e Aymeric Histace \u003cbr\u003e Patricia Horcajada Campos \u003cbr\u003e Stephen Houston \u003cbr\u003e Olivia Kindl \u003cbr\u003e Bertrand Lavédrine \u003cbr\u003e Linda R. Manzanilla Naim \u003cbr\u003e Anne Michelin \u003cbr\u003e Costanza Miliani \u003cbr\u003e Virgina E. Miller \u003cbr\u003e Sélim Natahi \u003cbr\u003e Fabien Pottier \u003cbr\u003e Patricia Quintana Owen \u003cbr\u003e Franco D. Rossi \u003cbr\u003e Antonio Sgamellotti \u003cbr\u003e Vera Tiesler \u003cbr\u003e Aurélie Tournié \u003cbr\u003e María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual \u003cbr\u003e Cristina Vidal Lorenzo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Élodie Dupey García\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816538441\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816538447\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/11\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.10h x 7.10w x 1.00d","brand":"Élodie Dupey García","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44170000072959,"sku":"9780816538447","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_80a4f623-d9f8-4133-a73c-a862d96dbbc9.jpg?v=1689656224","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/painting-the-skin-lodie-dupey-garca-9780816538447","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}