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Books by Heather Lechtman
  | | Variations in the Expressions of Inka Power (Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Pre-Columbian Studies) by Craig Morris, Richard L. Burger, Contributor-Joanne Pillsbury, Ramiro Matos, Contributor-Robert Batson, Ramiro Matos Mendieta, Contributor-Gary Urton, Contributor-Tom Cummins, Contributor-Terence D'altroy, Contributor-Heather Lechtman, Contributor-Carmen Arellano, Contributor-Albert Meyers, Contributor-Charles Stanish, Jeffrey Quilter, Brian S. Bauer, Ana Maria Lorandi, Susan A. Niles, Prof Joanne Pillsbury, Carrie J. Brezine, Lucy C. Salazar, Julian I. Santillana, Rebecca Rollins Stone, Veronica Isabel Williams, Carmen Arellano, Ramiros M. Mendieta Hardcover, 640 Pages, Published 2008 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-351-7, ISBN: 0-88402-351-6 " Download a corrected version of the map of the Lake Titicaca region. Download a corrected version of page 83. Download a corrected version of the map of the Huatanuay and Vilcanota-Urubama Valley region. Until recently, little archaeological investigation has been dedicated to the Inka, the last great culture to flourish in Andean South America before the sixteenth-century arrival of the Spaniards. While the Inka have been tr ..." |
 | | Reciprocity and Redistribution in Andean Civilizations The 1969 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures by John V. Murra, Heather Lechtman Paperback, 122 Pages, Published 2017 by Hau ISBN-13: 978-0-9973675-5-3, ISBN: 0-9973675-5-5 "John V. Murra’s Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, originally given in 1969, are the only major study of the Andean “avenue towards civilization.” Collected and published for the first time here, they offer a powerful and insistent perspective on the Andean region as one of the few places in which a so-called “pristine civilization” developed. Murra sheds light not only on the way civilization was achieved here—which followed a fundamentally ..." |
 | | Axe-Monies and Their Relatives (STUDIES IN PRE-COLUMBIAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY) by Dorothy Hosler, Olaf Holm, Heather Lechtman Paperback, 103 Pages, Published 1990 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-185-8, ISBN: 0-88402-185-8 "The two articles, now classics, that brought American axe-monies to the attention of scholars of New World prehistory were published virtually simultaneously: Olaf Holm's discussion of the Ecuadorian variety, which comments upon its closeness to similar artifacts from Oaxaca, Mexico (Holm 1966/67), and Dudley Easby's more metallurgically technical look at the Oaxacan types, which comments upon their closeness to similar artifacts f ..." |
 | | The House of the Bacabs, Copan, Honduras (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology Studies Series) by David L. Webster, Douglas Webster, Berthold Riese, Claude-François Baudez, David Stuart, Dorothy Hosler, Karl A. Taube, Virginia E. Miller, Heather Lechtman, Stephen D. Houston, Olaf Holm Paperback, 116 Pages, Published 1989 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-177-3, ISBN: 0-88402-177-7 "Dorie Reents-Budet, Curator, Pre-Columbian Art, Duke University Museum of Art Claude Baudez, William Fash, Jr., Berthold Riese, William Sanders, and David Webster contribute to this monograph, and using an integrated art historical and anthropological approach, consider the House of the Bacabs' context as an elite Maya structure, its excavation and restoration, and its iconographic and epigraphic reconstruction and interpretation, to es ..." |
 | | The Origins of Maya Art(1st Edition) Monumental Stone Sculpture of Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala, and the Southern Pacific Coast (STUDIES IN PRE-COLUMBIAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY) (v. 28) by Lee Allen Parsons, Dorothy Hosler, David L. Webster, Heather Lechtman, Olaf Holm Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 1986 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-148-3, ISBN: 0-88402-148-3 "A new series ... concerned chiefly with objects in the Robert Woods Bliss Collection." |
 | | Seven Matched Hollow Gold Jaguars from Peru's Early Horizon(1st Edition) by Heather Lechtman, Lee Allen Parsons, William Jonathan Young Paperback, 46 Pages, Published 1975 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-060-8, ISBN: 0-88402-060-6 "The specimen in the Miguel Mujica Gallo "Gold Museum" in Lima, like the Milwaukee example, originated with the owner of Hacienda Almendral near Chongoyape in the "late 1920's" (Mujica Gallo, personal communication). Unfortunately, we have been unsuccessful in securing a photograph of this example, though an illustration may be found in the privately published catalogue for the Gold Museum (Mujica Gallo 1968: Cat. No. 2514). It is a ..." |
 | | Annual Meeting 1975 Material Culture - Styles, Organization and Dynamics of Technology: Proceedings (Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society ... by American Ethnological Society (1980-05-03) by American Ethnological Society, Heather Lechtman, Robert S. Merrill Paperback, 236 Pages, Published 1977 by West Pub. Co ISBN-13: 978-0-8299-0138-2, ISBN: 0-8299-0138-8 "American Ethnological Society, Heather Lechtman, Association for the Anthropological Study of Play. Symposium. A distinctively Southeast Asian stimulant is preserved tea leaves, which are chewed. These are processed by fermentation in underground pits in the highlands of Thailand, Laos, and Viet Nam and distributed widely in the lowlands. The most widely used habitual narcotic consists of areca palm nut (betel) which may also be tr ..." |
 | | LA TECNOLOGIA EN EL MUNDO ANDINO. RUNAKUNAP KAWSAYNINKUPAQ RURASQANKUNAQA, 1 SUBSISTENCIA Y MENSURACION by Heather Lechtman, Ana María Soldi 496 Pages, Published 1985 by Instº Investigaciones Antropologicas, Mexico D.F. ISBN-13: 978-968-837-293-7, ISBN: 968-837-293-5 "Aunque no se trata de una práctica frecuente, a veces se castran los machos agresivos; después de la operación, los ... Los Escobar (1976) dicen que muchos habitantes de ciudad miran a los cuyes del campo con cierta difidencia porque creen que se cruzan con las ratas. De nuestros entrevistados, sólo uno pensaba que esto era posible, y se trataba de una persona que había vivido parte de su vida ..." |