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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.
The Maya World
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Author : Elizabeth P. Benson
language : en
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell
Release Date : 1977
The Maya World written by Elizabeth P. Benson and has been published by Thomas Y. Crowell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with History categories.
Handbook To Life In The Ancient Maya World
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Author : Lynn V. Foster
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2005
Handbook To Life In The Ancient Maya World written by Lynn V. Foster and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
This comprehensive and accessible reference explores the greatest and most mysterious of civilizations, hailed for its contributions to science, mathematics, and technology. Each chapter is supplemented by an extensive bibliography as well as photos, original line drawings, and maps.
The Maya World
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Author : Matthew Restall
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1999-02-01
The Maya World written by Matthew Restall and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-02-01 with History categories.
This pathbreaking work is a social and cultural history of the Maya peoples of the province of Yucatan in colonial Mexico, spanning the period from shortly after the Spanish conquest of the region to its incorporation as part of an independent Mexico. Instead of depending on the Spanish sources and perspectives that have formed the basis of previous scholarship on colonial Yucatan, the author aims to give a voice to the Maya themselves, basing his analysis entirely on his translations of hundreds of Yucatec Maya notarial documents—from libraries and archives in Mexico, Spain, and the United States—most of which have never before received scholarly attention. These documents allow the author to reconstruct the social and cultural world of the Maya municipality, or cah, the self-governing community where most Mayas lived and which was the focus of Maya social and political identity. The first two parts of the book examine the ways in which Mayas were organized and differentiated from each other within the community, and the discussion covers such topics as individual and group identities, sociopolitical organization, political factionalism, career patterns, class structures, household and family patterns, inheritance, gender roles, sexuality, and religion. The third part explores the material environment of the cah, emphasizing the role played by the use and exchange of land, while the fourth part describes in detail the nature and significance of the source documentation, its genres and its language. Throughout the book, the author pays attention to the comparative contexts of changes over time and the similarities or differences between Maya patterns and those of other colonial-era Mesoamericans, notably the Nahuas of central Mexico.
The Order Of Days
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Author : David Stuart
language : en
Publisher: Crown Archetype
Release Date : 2011-05-17
The Order Of Days written by David Stuart and has been published by Crown Archetype this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-17 with History categories.
The world's foremost expert on Maya culture looks at 2012 hysteria and explains the truth about what the Maya meant and what we want to believe. Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilizations End. The World Cataclysm in 2012. 2012: The return of Quetzalcoatl. According to many of these alarmingly titled books, the ancient Maya not only had a keen insight into the mystical workings of our planet and the cosmos, but they were also able to predict that the world will end in the year 2012. David Stuart, the foremost scholar of the Maya and recipient of numerous awards for his work, takes a hard look at the frenzy over 2012 and offers a fascination (and accurate) trip through Mayan culture and belief. Stuart shows how the idea that the "end of the Mayan calendar," which supposedly heralds the end of our own existence, says far more about our culture than about the ancient Maya. The Order of Days explores how the real intellectual achievement of ancient Maya timekeeping and worldview is far more impressive and remarkable than any of the popular, and often outrageous, claims about this advanced civilization. As someone who has studied the Maya for nearly all of his life and who specializes in reading their ancient texts, Stuart sees the 2012 hubbub as the most recent in a long chain of related ideas about Mesoamericans, the Maya in particular, that depicts them as somehow oddball, not "of this world," or as having some strong mystical link to other realms. Because the year 2012 has no prominent role in anything the ancient Maya ever actually wrote, Stuart takes a wider look at the Maya concepts of time and their underlying philosophy as we can best understand them. The ancient Maya, Stuart contends, were worthy of study and admiration not because they were strange but because they were altogether human, and they developed a compelling vision of time unlike any other civilization before or since.
The Maya World
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Author : Demetrio Sodi M.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
The Maya World written by Demetrio Sodi M. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Central America categories.
Tikal
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Author : Elizabeth Mann
language : en
Publisher: Mikaya Press
Release Date : 2002
Tikal written by Elizabeth Mann and has been published by Mikaya Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
A history of the Maya Indians in the city of Tikal, founded in 800 B.C.
The Ancient Maya
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Author : Jennifer Fretland VanVoorst
language : en
Publisher: Capstone
Release Date : 2013
The Ancient Maya written by Jennifer Fretland VanVoorst and has been published by Capstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Describes the Ancient Mayan civilization, including their religious views, intellectual achievements, and everyday life.
The World Of The Maya
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Author : Victor W. Von Hagen
language : en
Publisher: Signet
Release Date : 1969-04-01
The World Of The Maya written by Victor W. Von Hagen and has been published by Signet this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969-04-01 with categories.
The Maya A Very Short Introduction
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Author : Matthew Restall
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020-08-13
The Maya A Very Short Introduction written by Matthew Restall and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-13 with History categories.
The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya communities built spectacular cities with large, well-fed large populations. They mastered the visual arts, and developed a sophisticated writing system that recorded extraordinary knowledge in calendrics, mathematics, and astronomy. The Maya achieved all this without area-wide centralized control. There was never a single, unified Maya state or empire, but always numerous, evolving ethnic groups speaking dozens of distinct Mayan languages. The people we call "Maya" never thought of themselves as such; yet something definable, unique, and endlessly fascinating - what we call Maya culture - has clearly existed for millennia. So what was their self-identity and how did Maya civilization come to be "invented?" With the Maya historically subdivided and misunderstood in so many ways, the pursuit of what made them "the Maya" is all the more important. In this Very Short Introduction, Restall and Solari explore the themes of Maya identity, city-state political culture, art and architecture, the Maya concept of the cosmos, and the Maya experience of contact with including invasion by outsiders. Despite its brevity, this book is unique for its treatment of all periods of Maya civilization, from its origins to the present.