An edition of Gold and power in ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia
(2003)
Gold and power in ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia
a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 9 and 10 October 1999
by Jeffrey Quilter and John W. Hoopes
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Gold and power in ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia: a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 9 and 10 October 1999
2003, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections
in English
0884022943 9780884022947
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Table of Contents
Introduction : the golden bridge of the Darién / Jeffrey Quilter
"Catching the light" : technologies of power and enchantment in Pre-Columbian goldworking / Nicholas J. Saunders
Goldwork and Chibchan identity : endogenous change and diffuse unity in the Isthmo-Colombian area / John W. Hoopes and Oscar M. Fonseca Z.
Who crafted, exchanged, and displayed gold in Pre-Colombian Panama? / Richard Cooke ... [et al.]
From jade to gold in Costa Rica : how, why, and when / Michael J. Snarskis
Metallurgy, balls, and stone statuary in the Diquís Delta, Costa Rica : local production of power symbols / Patricia Fernández and Ifigenia Quintanilla
The political economy of Pre-Colombian gold works : four examples from northern South America / Carl Henrik Langebaek
Creation imagery in the goldwork of Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia / Mark Miller Graham
Gold, stone, and ideology : symbols of power in the Tairona tradition of northern Colombia / Warwick Bray
The seed of life : the symbolic power of gold-copper alloys and metallurgical transformations / Ana María Falchetti
Gold in the everyday lives of indigenous peoples of sixteenth-century southern Central America / Eugenia Ibarra.
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