vi, 429 p. : 26 cm

DON539/2008

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : the golden bridge of the Darién / Jeffrey Quilter -- "Catching the light" : technologies of power and enchantment in Pre-Columbian goldworking / Nicholas J. Saunders -- Goldwork and Chibchan identity : endogenous change and diffuse unity in the Isthmo-Colombian area / John W. Hoopes and Oscar M. Fonseca Z. -- Who crafted, exchanged, and displayed gold in Pre-Colombian Panama? / Richard Cooke ... [et al.] -- From jade to gold in Costa Rica : how, why, and when / Michael J. Snarskis -- Metallurgy, balls, and stone statuary in the Diquís Delta, Costa Rica : local production of power symbols / Patricia Fernández and Ifigenia Quintanilla -- The political economy of Pre-Colombian gold works : four examples from northern South America / Carl Henrik Langebaek -- Creation imagery in the goldwork of Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia / Mark Miller Graham -- Gold, stone, and ideology : symbols of power in the Tairona tradition of northern Colombia / Warwick Bray -- The seed of life : the symbolic power of gold-copper alloys and metallurgical transformations / Ana María Falchetti -- Gold in the everyday lives of indigenous peoples of sixteenth-century southern Central America / Eugenia Ibarra

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