Constructing Power and Place in Mesoamerica: Pre-Hispanic Paintings from Three Regions - Hardcover

by Merideth Paxton (Editor), Leticia Staines Cicero (Editor)

Identities of power and place, as expressed in paintings from the periods before and after the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica, are the subject of this book of case studies from Central Mexico, Oaxaca, and the Maya area.

Author Biography

Merideth Paxton is a research associate in the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of The Cosmos of the Yucatec Maya: Cycles and Steps from the Madrid Codex (UNM Press) and the coeditor of Texto, imagen e identidad en la pintura maya prehispànica.

Leticia Staines Cicero is a researcher in pre-Hispanic art at the Universidad Nacional AutÃ3noma de MÃ(c)xico in the Instituto de Investigaciones EstÃ(c)ticas. She participates in the â oeLa pintura mural prehispànica en MÃ(c)xicoâ � project and is the coordinator of the volumes dedicated to Maya murals.