The beautiful, the bad, and the ugly: Aesthetics and morality in Maya figurines

Mesoamerican Figurines: Small-Scale Indices of Large-Scale Social Phenomena

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 236-258

  Taube, Rhonda ^a   Taube, Karl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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