Moche art and visual culture in ancient Peru

Social and cultural contexts of Moche art --

Introduction: toward a Moche epigraphy --

Moche art: social contexts, functions, and religious underpinnings --

Production of ceramic imagery --

Interpretation of Moche iconographic configurations --

Issues of iconographic analysis --

Mold technology and the formation of semantic units --

Muchic and the linguistic analogy --

Hybrid presentational syntax in moche iconography --

Concluding comments.