Palenque Lakamha
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Palenque Lakamha
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Author : Mercedes de la Garza
language : es
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Palenque Lakamha written by Mercedes de la Garza and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Excavations (Archaeology) categories.
New archaeological and historical analysis of famed Mayan city of Palenque (200-900 A.D.) and its leaders. Takes advantage of recent revelations in epigraphy and archaeology to reconstruct dynasty and influence of governor K'inich Janahb' Pakal, responsible for site's most elaborate and impressive architectural and sculpture works.
Palenque
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Author : David Stuart
language : en
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Release Date : 2008-11-18
Palenque written by David Stuart and has been published by Thames and Hudson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-18 with Architecture categories.
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.
Maya Narrative Arts
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Author : Karen Bassie-Sweet
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2019-01-15
Maya Narrative Arts written by Karen Bassie-Sweet and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-15 with Social Science categories.
In Maya Narrative Arts, authors Karen Bassie-Sweet and Nicholas A. Hopkins present a comprehensive and innovative analysis of the principles of Classic Maya narrative arts and apply those principles to some of the major monuments of the site of Palenque. They demonstrate a recent methodological shift in the examination of art and inscriptions away from minute technical issues and toward the poetics and narratives of texts and the relationship between texts and images. Bassie-Sweet and Hopkins show that both visual and verbal media present carefully planned narratives, and that the two are intimately related in the composition of Classic Maya monuments. Text and image interaction is discussed through examples of stelae, wall panels, lintels, benches, and miscellaneous artifacts including ceramic vessels and codices. Bassie-Sweet and Hopkins consider the principles of contrast and complementarity that underlie narrative structures and place this study in the context of earlier work, proposing a new paradigm for Maya epigraphy. They also address the narrative organization of texts and images as manifested in selected hieroglyphic inscriptions and the accompanying illustrations, stressing the interplay between the two. Arguing for a more holistic approach to Classic Maya art and literature, Maya Narrative Arts reveals how close observation and reading can be equally if not more productive than theoretical discussions, which too often stray from the very data that they attempt to elucidate. The book will be significant for Mesoamerican art historians, epigraphers, linguists, and archaeologists.
The Maya World
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Author : Scott R. Hutson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-06-17
The Maya World written by Scott R. Hutson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-17 with Education categories.
The Maya World brings together over 60 authors, representing the fields of archaeology, art history, epigraphy, geography, and ethnography, who explore cutting-edge research on every major facet of the ancient Maya and all sub-regions within the Maya world. The Maya world, which covers Guatemala, Belize, and parts of Mexico, Honduras, and El Salvador, contains over a hundred ancient sites that are open to tourism, eight of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and many thousands more that have been dug or await investigation. In addition to captivating the lay public, the ancient Maya have attracted scores of major interdisciplinary research expeditions and hundreds of smaller projects going back to the 19th century, making them one of the best-known ancient cultures. The Maya World explores their renowned writing system, towering stone pyramids, exquisitely painted murals, and elaborate funerary tombs as well as their creative agricultural strategies, complex social, economic, and political relationships, widespread interactions with other societies, and remarkable cultural resilience in the face of historical ruptures. This is an invaluable reference volume for scholars of the ancient Maya, including archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists.
Harmony And Symmetry Celestial Regularities Shaping Human Culture
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Author : Gudrun Wolfschmidt
language : en
Publisher: tredition
Release Date : 2020-12-29
Harmony And Symmetry Celestial Regularities Shaping Human Culture written by Gudrun Wolfschmidt and has been published by tredition this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-29 with Religion categories.
For the SEAC conference in Graz (2018) and for the Proceedings the motto "Harmony and symmetry - celestial regularities shaping human culture" was chosen. There were at least two strong reasons for this motto: First, the connection between astronomy and human culture has an extremely long tradition, and one of its absolute high points is the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who spent his entire life searching for the relationship between the movement of heavenly lights and ideas about harmonious structures and regular bodies. Kepler started his scientific career and authored his first book, the Mysterium cosmographicum, in Graz. Kepler argued in his first publication for the twelve-fold partition of the zodiac with arguments derived from the monochord, anticipating the procedure he developed in his Harmonices mundi. Five contributions deal with Kepler, including the harmony in musical theory. The second reason was the Eggenberg Castle. This palace, built for the nobleman Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg (1568-1634), is a remarkable piece of symmetry and harmony and an outstanding example of a strong connection between astronomy and culture. Seven contributions have the topic astronomy, astrology and architecture with the emphasis on astronomical orientation, symmetry and harmony in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The Proceedings with ten chapters and 44 contributions range besides the mentioned "Middle Ages and beyond" and Johannes Kepler from Prehistoric Times, Bronze and Iron Age, Mythology and Ethnoastronomy, Babylonian Astronomy, Greek and Roman Astronomy, Meso- and South America, Middle East and Eastern Asia and Computational Astronomy. The celestial sphere, regarded as the sky of astronomy, as well as the heaven of divine numina, from Antiquity to Copernicus and Kepler was equated with symmetry, harmony, and beauty. Until today, this has been reflected in the structure of cultural creations, from architectural objects to musical forms.
The Last Lords Of Palenque
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Author : Victor Perera
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1985
The Last Lords Of Palenque written by Victor Perera and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with History categories.
The Last Lords of Lalenque is an extraordinary firsthand account of life among the Lacandon Indians of Nah in southern Mexico. A community of 250 whose genealogy has been obscured by the absence of a written tradition, the Lacandones may nevertheless be traced back linguistically and culturally to the great Maya civilization. They are the sole inheritors of an oral tradition that preserves-more than 400 years after the Spanish Conquest-a cosmology, a morality and a psychology as sophisticated as our own. Journalist and novelist Victor Perera and linguist Robert Bruce have lived among the Lacandones, chronicling their imperiled Mayan culture.
The Only True People
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Author : Bethany J. Beyette
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2017-03-01
The Only True People written by Bethany J. Beyette and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-01 with Social Science categories.
"The Only True People" is a timely and rigorous examination of ethnicity among the ancient and modern Maya, focusing on ethnogenesis and exploring the complexities of Maya identity—how it developed, where and when it emerged, and why it continues to change over time. In the volume, a multidisciplinary group of well-known scholars including archaeologists, linguists, ethnographers, ethnohistorians, and epigraphers investigate ethnicity and other forms of group identity at a number of Maya sites and places, from the northern reaches of the Yucatan to the Southern Periphery, and across different time periods, from the Classic period to the modern day. Each contribution challenges the notion of ethnically homogenous "Maya peoples" for their region and chronology and explores how their work contributes to the definition of "ethnicity" for ancient Maya society. Contributors confront some of the most difficult theoretical debates concerning identity in the literature today: how different ethnic groups define themselves in relation to others; under what circumstances ethnicity is marked by overt expressions of group membership and when it is hidden from view; and the processes that transform ethnic identities and their expressions. By addressing the social constructs and conditions behind Maya ethnicity, both past and present, "The Only True People" contributes to the understanding of ethnicity as a complex set of relationships among people who lived in real and imagined communities, as well as among people separated by social boundaries. The volume will be a key resource for Mayanists and will be of interest to students and scholars of ethnography, anthropology, and cultural studies as well. Contributors: McCale Ashenbrener, Ellen E. Bell, Marcello A. Canuto, Juan Castillo Cocom, David A. Freidel, Wolfgang Gabbert, Stanley P. Guente, Jonathan Hill, Charles Andrew Hofling, Martha J. Macri, Damien B. Marken, Matthew Restall, Timoteo Rodriguez, Mathew C. Samson, Edward Schortman, Rebecca Storey
Arts And Cultures
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Arts And Cultures written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Archaeological museums and collections categories.
Atlantis Exodus
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Author : Yuri Aldanov
language : en
Publisher: Yuri Aldanov
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Atlantis Exodus written by Yuri Aldanov and has been published by Yuri Aldanov this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with History categories.
The myth of Atlantis has occupied the minds of many people for several hundred years. Thanks to the development of transportation, scientists and private researchers have tried in vain to find traces of it. The first who briefly described this mysterious island state was the ancient Greek philosopher Plato in the middle of the first millennium BC. The philosopher indicated the location of Atlantis and the date of its death - 10,500-10,000 years BC. Neither the first nor the second fact has been physically confirmed. But what is even more mysterious is that he never tried to go in search of it and did not even raise the subject, as if he knew for sure that it was impossible to find Atlantis. On the other hand, Plato wrote a lot about how a just state should be organized, about the laws of such a state, and even about how the number of citizens should be kept at a certain level. Were his thoughts related to the knowledge of Atlantis? Actually, Plato told more about Atlantis than a first reading of his works would suggest. What does the reader miss in Plato's treatises? There is an opinion that the reason for the death of this amazing state was some kind of tectonic cataclysm with sinking, which happened a little earlier than 10,000 BC. However, no traces of this cataclysm have been found either. Interestingly, during the same period, several unusual global events took place on Earth that radically changed the flora and fauna of the planet and the alignment of prevailing forces. First, agriculture emerged, based on the principles of collectivism and it led to the birth of mankind; second, the most voracious and most dangerous species of the mammoth megafauna disappeared; and third, some huge space object collided with the Earth's atmosphere, not leaving any craters or destructions on the surface of the planet. Is there any connection between these four events? Did the inhabitants of Atlantis leave any artifacts behind them? What feats did they accomplish? Why nothing is known about Atlantis? Is Atlantis connected with the emergence of religions? This book gives the answers to all of these questions, and they will amaze you. There is an opinion that the reason for the death of this amazing state was some kind of tectonic cataclysm with sinking, which happened a little earlier than 10,000 BC. However, no traces of this cataclysm have been found either. Interestingly, during the same period, several unusual global events took place on Earth that radically changed the planet's flora and fauna and the alignment of prevailing forces. First, agriculture based on the principles of collectivism emerged and led to the birth of mankind; second, the most voracious and dangerous species of the mammoth megafauna disappeared; and third, a huge space object collided with the Earth's atmosphere, leaving no craters or destruction on the planet's surface. Is there any connection between these four events? Did the inhabitants of Atlantis leave any artifacts behind them? What feats did they accomplish? Why is nothing known about Atlantis? Is Atlantis connected to the rise of religions? This book provides the answers to all these questions, and they will amaze you.
Classic Maya Place Names
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Author : David Stuart
language : en
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
Release Date : 1994
Classic Maya Place Names written by David Stuart and has been published by Dumbarton Oaks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
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.