Introduction to Ancient American Art: Self and Sacrifice

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An introduction to the art and architecture produced by the sophisticated and urbanized cultures of the Americas: the Olmec, the Maya, the Mexica (or Aztec), Chavín, Moche, Nazca and Inka. It focuses on how rulers and other elites, over time, used art and architecture to bring themselves and their societies into synch with the natural world, and how sacrifice, of one's self, of other humans or of non-human animals, was represented in art and commemorated in architecture.