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  • Heart of Creation

    The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele

    de Andrea Stone, Marc Zender, Barbara MacLeod, David B. Kelley, Federico Fahsen, Nikolai Grube, Elin C. Danien, Duncan Earle, David M. Schele, David A. Freidel0, Mary Miller1, Gillett Griffin2, Dorie Reents-Budet3, Anthony Aveni4, Merle Greene Robertson5, Susan Milbrath6, Elizabeth P. Benson7, Michael D. Coe8, Julia Guernsey Kappelman9, Rex Koontz0, Annabeth Headrick1, Constance Cortez2, Kathryn Reese-Taylor3, Frank Kent Reilly III4, Matthew G. Looper5 ...
    This accessible, state-of-the-art review of Mayan hieroglyphics and cosmology also serves as a tribute to one of the field's most noted pioneers.The core of this book focuses on the current study of Mayan hieroglyphics as inspired by the recently deceased Mayanist Linda Schele. As author or coauthor of more than 200 books or articles on the Maya, Schele served as the chief disseminator of ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Early Mesoamerican Cities

    Urbanism and Urbanization in the Formative Period

    Edición de Michael Love, Julia Guernsey ...
    Urbanization is a phenomenon that brings into focus a range of topics of broad interest to scholars. It is one of the central, enduring interests of anthropological archaeology. Because urbanization is a transformational process, it changes the relationships between social and cultural variables such as demography, economy, politics, and ideology. As one of a handful of cases in the ancient world ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

  • Ritual and Power in Stone

    The Performance of Rulership in Mesoamerican Izapan Style Art

    de Julia Guernsey ...
    Series series The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
    The ancient Mesoamerican city of Izapa in Chiapas, Mexico, is renowned for its extensive collection of elaborate stone stelae and altars, which were carved during the Late Preclassic period (300 BC-AD 250). Many of these monuments depict kings garbed in the costume and persona of a bird, a well-known avian deity who had great significance for the Maya and other cultures in adjacent regions. This ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Human Figuration and Fragmentation in Preclassic Mesoamerica

    From Figurines to Sculpture

    de Julia Guernsey ...
    In this book, Julia Guernsey examines the relationship between human figuration, fragmentation, bodily divisibility, personhood, and community in ancient Mesoamerica. Contending that representation of the human body in the pre-classic period gradually became a privileged act, she argues that human figuration as well as the fragmentation of both human representations and human bodies reveals ... Leer más

    $109.99 USD

  • Sculpture and Social Dynamics in Preclassic Mesoamerica

    de Julia Guernsey ...
    This book examines the functions of sculpture during the Preclassic period in Mesoamerica and its significance in statements of social identity. Julia Guernsey situates the origins and evolution of monumental stone sculpture within a broader social and political context and demonstrates the role that such sculpture played in creating and institutionalizing social hierarchies. This book focuses ... Leer más

    $121.99 USD

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  • Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica

    Edición de Sarah Kurnick, Joanne Baron ...
    Political authority contains an inherent contradiction. Rulers must reinforce social inequality and bolster their own unique position at the top of the sociopolitical hierarchy, yet simultaneously emphasize social similarities and the commonalities shared by all. Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica explores the different and complex ways that those who exercised authority in the ... Leer más

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  • Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage

    Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and the Politics of Cultural Continuity in the Americas

    Edición de Fernando Armstrong-Fumero, Julio Hoil Gutierrez ...
    Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage is an interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections between the study and management of physical sites and the reproduction of intangible cultural legacies. The volume provides nine case studies that explore different ways in which place is mediated by social, political, and ecological processes that have deep historical roots and that continue to ... Leer más

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  • Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica

    Edición de Joshua Englehardt, Michael D. Carrasco ...
    Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica explores the role of interregional interaction in the dynamic sociocultural processes that shaped the pre-Columbian societies of Mesoamerica. Interdisciplinary contributions from leading scholars investigate linguistic exchange and borrowing, scribal practices, settlement patterns, ceramics, iconography, and trade systems, presenting a variety of ... Leer más

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  • Rituals of the Past

    Prehispanic and Colonial Case Studies in Andean Archaeology

    Edición de Silvana Rosenfeld, Stefanie Bautista ...
    Rituals of the Past explores the various approaches archaeologists use to identify ritual in the material record and discusses the influence ritual had on the formation, reproduction, and transformation of community life in past Andean societies. A diverse group of established and rising scholars from across the globe investigates how ritual influenced, permeated, and altered political authority, ... Leer más

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  • The First Maya Civilization

    Ritual and Power Before the Classic Period

    de Francisco Estrada-Belli ...
    When the Maya kings of Tikal dedicated their first carved monuments in the third century A.D., inaugurating the Classic period of Maya history that lasted for six centuries and saw the rise of such famous cities as Palenque, Copan and Yaxchilan, Maya civilization was already nearly a millennium old. Its first cities, such as Nakbe and El Mirador, had some of the largest temples ever raised in ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Mesoamerican Archaeology

    Theory and Practice

    Edición de Julia A. Hendon, Lisa Overholtzer, Rosemary A. Joyce ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology
    A unique and wide-ranging introduction to the major prehispanic and colonial societies of Mexico and Central America, featuring new and revised material throughoutMesoamerican Archaeology: Theory and Practice, Second Edition, provides readers with a diverse and well-balanced view of the archaeology of the indigenous societies of Mexico and Central America, helping students better understand key ... Leer más

    $47.00 USD

  • To Be Like Gods

    Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization

    de Matthew G. Looper ...
    Series series The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
    Winner, Association for Latin American Art Book Award, 2010The Maya of Mexico and Central America have performed ritual dances for more than two millennia. Dance is still an essential component of religious experience today, serving as a medium for communication with the supernatural. During the Late Classic period (AD 600-900), dance assumed additional importance in Maya royal courts through an ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD