Ecology and the Arts in Ancient Panama
Author: Olga F. Linares
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9780884020691
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Linares reinterprets the Classic rank-societies of the central Panamanian provinces using archaeological, ecological, iconographic, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic evidence, and concludes that the art of this area used animal motifs as a metaphor for the qualities of aggression and hostility characteristic of local social and political life.