Chavín: Art, Architecture, and Culture


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Series: Monographs 61
ISBN: 978-1-931745-45-1
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Price: Pb $50.00, Hb $80.00, Ebook $50.00
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William J. Conklin and Jeffrey Quilter

This book is the first in more than a decade to provide new information on the Chavín phenomenon of ancient Peru. Thought by some to be the "Mother Culture" of ancient Peruvian cultures, Chavín is remarkable for its baroque, sophisticated art style in a variety of media, including finely carved stone monuments, beautifully formed pottery, and magnificent and complex metallurgy. 

Chavín

The textiles from Chavín, both iconographically and structurally innovative, form the foundation for the later Andean textile evolution. Chapters in this book cover new interpretations of the history of the site of Chavín de Huantar, studies of related cultures, the role of shamanism, and many other topics of interest to both specialists and the general reader.
Table of Contents

PART I: THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE TEMPLE AT CHAVÍN DE HUÁNTAR  1
Chapter 1. Context, Construction, and Ritual in the Development of Authority at Chavín de Huántar by John W. Rick
Chapter 2. The Architecture at the Monumental Center of Chavín de Huántar: Sequence, Transformations, and Chronology by Silvia Rodriguez Kembel

PART II: THE PREDECESSORS OF CHAVÍN           

Chapter 3. The Manchay Culture and the Coastal Inspiration for Highland Chavín Civilization by Richard L. Burger and Lucy C. Salazar
Chapter 4. Context and Content of Early Chavín Art by Henning Bischof
Chapter 5. The Importance of Pacopampa: Architecture and Iconography in the Central Andean Formative by Daniel Morales Chocano 

PART III: THE ART OF CHAVÍN       

Chapter 6. The Original Context of the Yauya Stela by Richard Burger
Chapter 7. How To Build a Raptor: Why the Dumbarton Oaks “Scaled Cayman” Callango Textile is Really a Chavín Jaguaroid Harpy Eagle by Peter G. Roe
Chapter 8. the Body of Meaning in Chavín Art by Gary Urton

PART IV: THE CULTURE OF CHAVÍN

Chapter 9. Chavín’s Psychoactive Pharmacopoeia: The Iconographic Evidence by Constantino Manuel Torres
Chapter 10. The Culture of Chavín Textiles by William J Conklin
Chapter 11. The Felicitous Legacy of the Lanzón by Tom Cummins