Brigitte Faugère is professor at the Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. An archaeologist specializing in the north-central and western parts of Mexico, she is the director of an excavation project on the Preclassic Chupícuaro in the Lerma Valley and author of Entre Zacapu y Río Lerma: Culturas en una zona fronteriza, Las representaciones rupestres del centro-norte de Michoacán, and Cueva de los Portales: Un sitio arcaico de Michoacán, México.  Christopher Beekman is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado Denver. His research focuses on sociopolitical organization in ancient western Mexico. He has directed excavation projects at Llano Grande and Navajas and surveys in the La Primavera region and the Magdalena Valley. He is a coauthor of the first volume of the Historia de Jalisco and has coedited several books, including Shaft Tombs and Figures in West Mexican Society.

"An invigorating glimpse into the various roles of anthropomorphic imagery in diverse cultural contexts. . . . Throughout, the case studies in this book present analyses applicable to scholars working in different areas and disciplines, suggesting productive new understandings of objects and their roles in ancient lives."—Latin American Antiquity

Brigitte Faugère is professor at the Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. An archaeologist specializing in the north-central and western parts of Mexico, she is the director of an excavation project on the Preclassic Chupícuaro in the Lerma Valley and author of Entre Zacapu y Río Lerma: Culturas en una zona fronteriza, Las representaciones rupestres del centro-norte de Michoacán, and Cueva de los Portales: Un sitio arcaico de Michoacán, México.  Christopher Beekman is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado Denver. His research focuses on sociopolitical organization in ancient western Mexico. He has directed excavation projects at Llano Grande and Navajas and surveys in the La Primavera region and the Magdalena Valley. He is a coauthor of the first volume of the Historia de Jalisco and has coedited several books, including Shaft Tombs and Figures in West Mexican Society.

"An invigorating glimpse into the various roles of anthropomorphic imagery in diverse cultural contexts. . . . Throughout, the case studies in this book present analyses applicable to scholars working in different areas and disciplines, suggesting productive new understandings of objects and their roles in ancient lives."—Latin American Antiquity

Brigitte Faugère is professor at the Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. An archaeologist specializing in the north-central and western parts of Mexico, she is the director of an excavation project on the Preclassic Chupícuaro in the Lerma Valley and author of Entre Zacapu y Río Lerma: Culturas en una zona fronteriza, Las representaciones rupestres del centro-norte de Michoacán, and Cueva de los Portales: Un sitio arcaico de Michoacán, México.  Christopher Beekman is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado Denver. His research focuses on sociopolitical organization in ancient western Mexico. He has directed excavation projects at Llano Grande and Navajas and surveys in the La Primavera region and the Magdalena Valley. He is a coauthor of the first volume of the Historia de Jalisco and has coedited several books, including Shaft Tombs and Figures in West Mexican Society.

"An invigorating glimpse into the various roles of anthropomorphic imagery in diverse cultural contexts. . . . Throughout, the case studies in this book present analyses applicable to scholars working in different areas and disciplines, suggesting productive new understandings of objects and their roles in ancient lives."—Latin American Antiquity