JAGUAR AND SERPENT: The Cosmos of Indians in Mexico, Central and South America
by DEMIEL, Claus & Elke Ruhnau
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- ISBN 10
- 34960270020
- ISBN 13
- 97834960270021
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Germany: SMPK, 2000. 1st American Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. B&W and Color photos. CONDITION: UNREAD 2000 SMPK very large paperback, no printing given. Loaded with color and B&W artifact photos and drawings with B&W maps. Excellent look into the religion of the Ancient American Indians. Tiny "ding" spine ridge. Exhibition. ISBN: 34960270022 CONTENT: Superb catalogue which accompanied an exhibition by the same name presented May to October, 2000, in the FORUM of the Landesmuseum, Hanover, Germany. Among the topics discussed are: 1) Mesoamerica, Central America & the Caribbean before the arrival of the Spanish; 2) Costa Rica in pre-Spanish times; 3) the Taino of the Greater Antilles; 4) Death shrouds from pre-Spanish Peru; 5) the Huichol of northwest Mexico; 6) the peyote notched stick of the Raramuri; 7) masks of the Tarahumara (the work of Simon Morales); 8) Indians in the Amazonian lowlands; 9) a short history of Latin American natural medicine; 9) Colima on the Pacific and the cultures of the Gulf of Mexico; 10) the Maya. Translated from the German by Ann Leslie Davis.
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- Title
- JAGUAR AND SERPENT: The Cosmos of Indians in Mexico, Central and South America
- Author
- DEMIEL, Claus & Elke Ruhnau
- Illustrator
- B&W and Color photos
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st American Edition Printing Unknown
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 34960270020
- ISBN 13
- 97834960270021
- Publisher
- SMPK
- Place of Publication
- Germany
- Date Published
- 2000
- Pages
- 233
- Keywords
- Ancient Americas, Ancient American religion, Exhibition books, Ancient American medicine, Taino civilization,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ancient Americas; Archaeology; Ancient Americas: Mesoamerica; Science: Archeoastronomy/Astronomy; Ancient Americas: Andean; Adult & Young Adult;
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- 3 lb
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