Ecology and the Arts in Ancient Panama

On the Development of Social Rank and Symbolism in the Central Provinces

Olga F. Linares

Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology

Art History, Archaeology, Pre-Columbian Studies

ISBN: 978-0-88402-069-1, Paperback, 1977, Buy here

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Olga Linares offers a reinterpretation of the Classic rank-societies of the central Panamanian provinces based on archaeological, ecological, iconographic, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic evidence, and concludes that the art style of this area used animal motifs as a metaphor in expressing the qualities of aggression and hostility characteristic of social and political life in the central provinces.

 

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