Author : Olga F. Linares
Release : 1977
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 691/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ecology and the Arts in Ancient Panama by : Olga F. Linares
Download or read book Ecology and the Arts in Ancient Panama written by Olga F. Linares. This book was released on 1977. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linares reinterprets the Classic rank-societies of the central Panamanian provinces using archaeological, ecological, iconographic, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic evidence, and concludes that the art of this area used animal motifs as a metaphor for the qualities of aggression and hostility characteristic of local social and political life.