Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Chapter 1 Rediscovering Women and Gestation in Olmec Visual Culture 1
6. Chapter 2 The Tale of the Were-Jaguar 17
7. Chapter 3 The Sowing and Dawning of the Human-Maize Seed 35
8. Chapter 4 Tracking Gender, Gestation, and Narrativity Through the Early Formative 75
9. Chapter 5 La Venta’s Buried Offerings Women and Other Revelations 135
10. Chapter 6 Female Water and Earth Supernaturals The Massive Off erings, Mosaic Pavements, and Mixe “Work of the Earth” 177
11. Chapter 7 A Processional Visual Narrative at La Venta 199
12. Chapter 8 La Venta’s Creation and Origins Narrative 215
13. Chapter 9 A Scattering of Seeds 263
14. Appendix 1 La Venta Monuments by Format 279
15. Appendix 2 Comparison of Mesoamerican Creation and Origins Narratives 286
16. Appendix 3 Shape-Shifters and Werewolves to Were-Jaguars: A Brief Chronology 296
17. Notes 299
18. Bibliography 309
19. Index 327