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The White Shaman Mural : An Enduring Creation Narrative in the Rock Art of the Lower Pecos / Carolyn E. Boyd.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9781477311196
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E78.T4 B69 2016
  • E78.T4 B69 2016
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Archaic Codices -- Chapter 2. The Painted Landscape -- Chapter 3. Transcribing and Reading Visual Texts -- Chapter 4. A Primer: Abiding Themes in Mesoamerican Thought -- Chapter 5. Pilgrimage to Creation: A Reading of the White Shaman Mural Informed by Huichol Mythology -- Chapter 6. Return to Creation: A Reading of the White Shaman Mural Informed by Nahua Mythology -- Chapter 7. The Art of Transcendence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The prehistoric hunter-gatherers of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas and Coahuila, Mexico, created some of the most spectacularly complex, colorful, extensive, and enduring rock art of the ancient world. Perhaps the greatest of these masterpieces is the White Shaman mural, an intricate painting that spans some twenty-six feet in length and thirteen feet in height on the wall of a shallow cave overlooking the Pecos River. In The White Shaman Mural, Carolyn E. Boyd takes us on a journey of discovery as she builds a convincing case that the mural tells a story of the birth of the sun and the beginning of time—making it possibly the oldest pictorial creation narrative in North America. Unlike previous scholars who have viewed Pecos rock art as random and indecipherable, Boyd demonstrates that the White Shaman mural was intentionally composed as a visual narrative, using a graphic vocabulary of images to communicate multiple levels of meaning and function. Drawing on twenty-five years of archaeological research and analysis, as well as insights from ethnohistory and art history, Boyd identifies patterns in the imagery that equate, in stunning detail, to the mythologies of Uto-Aztecan-speaking peoples, including the ancient Aztec and the present-day Huichol. This paradigm-shifting identification of core Mesoamerican beliefs in the Pecos rock art reveals that a shared ideological universe was already firmly established among foragers living in the Lower Pecos region as long as four thousand years ago.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Archaic Codices -- Chapter 2. The Painted Landscape -- Chapter 3. Transcribing and Reading Visual Texts -- Chapter 4. A Primer: Abiding Themes in Mesoamerican Thought -- Chapter 5. Pilgrimage to Creation: A Reading of the White Shaman Mural Informed by Huichol Mythology -- Chapter 6. Return to Creation: A Reading of the White Shaman Mural Informed by Nahua Mythology -- Chapter 7. The Art of Transcendence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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The prehistoric hunter-gatherers of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas and Coahuila, Mexico, created some of the most spectacularly complex, colorful, extensive, and enduring rock art of the ancient world. Perhaps the greatest of these masterpieces is the White Shaman mural, an intricate painting that spans some twenty-six feet in length and thirteen feet in height on the wall of a shallow cave overlooking the Pecos River. In The White Shaman Mural, Carolyn E. Boyd takes us on a journey of discovery as she builds a convincing case that the mural tells a story of the birth of the sun and the beginning of time—making it possibly the oldest pictorial creation narrative in North America. Unlike previous scholars who have viewed Pecos rock art as random and indecipherable, Boyd demonstrates that the White Shaman mural was intentionally composed as a visual narrative, using a graphic vocabulary of images to communicate multiple levels of meaning and function. Drawing on twenty-five years of archaeological research and analysis, as well as insights from ethnohistory and art history, Boyd identifies patterns in the imagery that equate, in stunning detail, to the mythologies of Uto-Aztecan-speaking peoples, including the ancient Aztec and the present-day Huichol. This paradigm-shifting identification of core Mesoamerican beliefs in the Pecos rock art reveals that a shared ideological universe was already firmly established among foragers living in the Lower Pecos region as long as four thousand years ago.

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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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