Classic Maya Place Names
Title | Classic Maya Place Names PDF eBook |
Author | David Stuart |
Publisher | Dumbarton Oaks |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780884022091 |
The authors present evidence that specific place names do exist in Maya inscriptions, and show that identifying these names sheds considerable light on both past and present questions about the Maya.
Place and Identity in Classic Maya Narratives
Title | Place and Identity in Classic Maya Narratives PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandre Tokovinine |
Publisher | Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Inscriptions, Mayan |
ISBN | 9780884023920 |
By examining the connections between place and identity in the Classic Maya culture that thrived in the Yucatan peninsula and parts of Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras from 350 to 900 CE, Alexandre Tokovinine addresses one of the crucial research questions in anthropology: How do human communities define themselves in relation to landscapes?
Palenque
Title | Palenque PDF eBook |
Author | David Stuart |
Publisher | Thames and Hudson |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2008-11-18 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
Two leading Maya scholars tell this story of the rediscovery of the queen of Maya cities--Palenque--deep in the forest-clad mountains of southeastern Mexico. 150 illustrations.
The Memory of Bones
Title | The Memory of Bones PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen D. Houston |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 758 |
Release | 2013-05-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0292756186 |
An analysis of the intellectual and emotional life of ancient Mesoamerican people through studies of figural works and inscriptions. All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But is it possible for us, embodied as we are in a particular time and place, to know how people of long ago thought about the body and its experiences? In this groundbreaking book, three leading experts on the Classic Maya (ca. AD 250 to 850) marshal a vast array of evidence from Maya iconography and hieroglyphic writing, as well as archaeological findings, to argue that the Classic Maya developed an approach to the human body that we can recover and understand today. Starting with a cartography of the Maya body as depicted in imagery and texts, the authors explore how the body was replicated in portraiture; how it experienced the world through ingestion, the senses, and the emotions; how the body experienced war and sacrifice and the pain and sexuality; how words, often heaven-sent, could be embodied; and how bodies could be blurred through spirit possession. From these investigations, the authors convincingly demonstrate that the Maya conceptualized the body in varying roles, as a metaphor of time, as a gendered, sexualized being, in distinct stages of life, as an instrument of honor and dishonor, as a vehicle for communication and consumption, as an exemplification of beauty and ugliness, and as a dancer and song-maker. Their findings open a new avenue for empathetically understanding the ancient Maya as living human beings who experienced the world as we do, through the body.
Ancient Maya Politics
Title | Ancient Maya Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Martin |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 543 |
Release | 2020-06-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108483887 |
With new readings of ancient texts, Ancient Maya Politics unlocks the long-enigmatic political system of the Classic Maya.
Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens
Title | Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Martin |
Publisher | Thames and Hudson |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2008-03-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
"The ideal reference on Maya archaeology."--Science News
Classic Maya Polities of the Southern Lowlands
Title | Classic Maya Polities of the Southern Lowlands PDF eBook |
Author | Damien B. Marken |
Publisher | University Press of Colorado |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2015-11-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 160732413X |
Classic Maya Polities of the Southern Lowlands investigates Maya political and social structure in the southern lowlands, assessing, comparing, and interpreting the wide variation in Classic period Maya polity and city composition, development, and integration. Traditionally, discussions of Classic Maya political organization have been dominated by the debate over whether Maya polities were centralized or decentralized. With new, largely unpublished data from several recent archaeological projects, this book examines the premises, strengths, and weaknesses of these two perspectives before moving beyond this long-standing debate and into different territory. The volume examines the articulations of the various social and spatial components of Maya polity—the relationships, strategies, and practices that bound households, communities, institutions, and dynasties into enduring (or short-lived) political entities. By emphasizing the internal negotiation of polity, the contributions provide an important foundation for a more holistic understanding of how political organization functioned in the Classic period. Contributors include Francisco Estrada Belli, James L. Fitzsimmons, Sarah E. Jackson, Caleb Kestle, Brigitte Kovacevich, Allan Maca, Damien B. Marken, James Meierhoff, Timothy Murtha, Cynthia Robin, Alexandre Tokovinine, and Andrew Wyatt.