Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Flower Mountain in Pre-Columbian Querétaro? -- The Iconography of a Toltec Monument from El Cerrito -- Keith Jordan -- 2 Divination, Ceremony, and Structure in the Codex Laud -- Alessia Frassani -- 3 The Devil You Know -- Pictorial Representations of the Devil and the Demonic in the ­Florentine Codex -- Angela Herren Rajagopalan -- 4 Luminosity in Mexican Enconchado Paintings and Conceptions of the Sacred -- Miguel Arisa -- 5 The Strings Attached -- Problems in Integrating the Study of the Ancient Caribbean -- Lawrence Waldron -- 6 The Cuban Bohío -- History, Appropriation, and Transformation -- Lorena Tezanos Toral -- 7 Picturing the Bird in Paracas: Images from Unwritten Narratives -- Mary Brown -- 8 Indigenous Artists and the Representation of Africans in Colonial Peru -- Elena FitzPatrick Sifford -- 9 Andean Cosmovision in the Angel Painting Series in the Viceroyalty of Peru -- Orlando Hernandez Ying -- 10 Imagining Insurgency in Late Colonial Peru -- Ananda Cohen-Aponte -- 11 Thinking in Stone -- Re-presenting the Shape of Inca Culture Today -- Jeremy James George -- 12 Final Remarks -- Marcus B. Burke -- Index.

This volume explores how visual arts functioned in the indigenous pre- and post-conquest New World as vehicles of social, religious, and political identity. Twelve scholars in the field of visual arts examine indigenous artistic expressions in the American continent from the pre-Hispanic age to the present. The contributions offer new interpretations of materials, objects, and techniques based on a critical analysis of historical and iconographic sources and argue that indigenous agency in the continent has been primarily conceived and expressed in visual forms in spite of the textual epistemology imposed since the conquest. Contributors are: Miguel Arisa, Mary Brown, Ananda Cohen-Aponte, Elena FitzPatrick Sifford, Alessia Frassani, Jeremy James George, Orlando Hernández Ying, Angela Herren Rajagopalan, Keith Jordan, Lorena Tezanos Toral, Marcus B. Burke, and Lawrence Waldron.

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