Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia
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Contents
Jeffrey Quilter, Introduction: The Golden Bridge of the Daríen
Nicholas J. Saunders, "Catching the Light ": Technologies of Power and Enchantment in Pre-Columbian Goldworking
John W. Hoopes and Oscar M. Fonseca Z., Goldwork and Chibchan Identity: Endogenous Change and Diffuse Unity in the Isthmo-Colombian Area
Richard Cooke, Ilean Isaza, John Griggs, Benoit Desjardins, and Luís Alberto Sánchez, Who Crafted, Exchanged, and Displayed Gold in Pre-Columbian Panama?
Michael J. Snarskis, From Jade to Gold in Costa Rica: How, Why, and When
Patricia Fernández and Ifigenia Quintanilla, Metallurgy, Balls, and Stone Statuary in the Diquís Delta, Costa Rica:
Local Production of Power Symbols
Carl Henrik Langebaek, The Political Economy of Pre-Columbian Gold Work: Four Examples from Northern South America
Mark Miller Graham, Creation Imagery in the Goldwork of Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia
Warwick Bray, Gold, Stone, and Ideology: Symbols of Power in the Tairona Tradition of Northern Colombia
Ana María Falchetti, The Seed of Life: The Symbolic Power of Gold-Copper Alloys and Metallurgical Transformations
Eugenia Ibarra, Gold in the Everyday Lives of Indigenous Peoples of Sixteenth-Century Southern Central America.
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