Flower Worlds: Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesamerica and the American Southwest

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Editors: Mathiowetz, Michael D. and Turner, Andrew D.

Publisher: University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ)

Pub Date: 2021

Binding: Hardcover (out of print in hardcover)

Condition: Good.  Binding tight.  Without dust jacket, as issued.  Printed boards.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.

Notes: Amerind Studies in Anthropology    “In our original article, we stressed that the flower world is not one thing or one place or one essential set of images.  We wrote, ‘The Flower World complex should not be interpreted as a ‘religion’ or ‘cult’ in its own right.  Instead, the complex constituted one of several ‘part ideologies’ or a set of symbolic tools that remained available, either separately or in combination, to the ritual practice and thought of Southwestern people over a long period of time…Finally, I’d step outside the Uto-Aztecan-speaking world and expand the linguistic, temporal, and spatial scope of investigations and comparisons even if doing so makes this fuzzy topic even fuzzier.” (From the Preface).    Imagery and its relationship to religion  in art, language, material culture in the ancient world.  For another explanation of what’s going on here see https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/flower-worlds