Earlier generations of Mesoamerican scholars created figurine types and chronologies, laying the foundation for today’s archaeologists who have been linking figurines to household archaeology, gender studies, performance, materiality, embodiment, animism, political economy, agency, and identity. Scholars are establishing a figurine’s life history from clay procurement to manufacture, manipulation, and circulation; assessing the changes over time in the meaning and function of handmade and mold-made figurines; reembedding figurines into the dynamic, social, and animate world from which they emanated; and linking figurines to associated artifacts in the house, courtyards, caches, burials, and neighborhood middens.

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学习小雕像

中美洲的前几代学者创造了小雕像的类型和年代，为当今的考古学家奠定了基础，他们将小雕像与家庭考古，性别研究，性能，物质性，体现力，万物有灵论，政治经济学，代理机构和身份联系在一起。学者们正在建立从陶土采购到制造，操纵和流通的小雕像的生活史。评估手工和模具雕像的含义和功能随时间的变化；将小雕像重新植入它们所起源的动态，社会和动画世界中；并将小雕像与房屋，庭院，藏身处，墓葬和社区中的相关文物相关联。