The Mesoamerican Ballgame
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The Mesoamerican Ballgame
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Author : Vernon L. Scarborough
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 1993-01-01
The Mesoamerican Ballgame written by Vernon L. Scarborough and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with Social Science categories.
The Precolumbian ballgame, played on a masonry court, has long intrigued scholars because of the magnificence of its archaeological remains. From its lowland Maya origins it spread throughout the Aztec empire, where the game was so popular that sixteen thousand rubber balls were imported annually into Tenochtitlan. It endured for two thousand years, spreading as far as to what is now southern Arizona. This new collection of essays brings together research from field archaeology, mythology, and Maya hieroglyphic studies to illuminate this important yet puzzling aspect of Native American culture. The authors demonstrate that the game was more than a spectator sport; serving social, political, mythological, and cosmological functions, it celebrated both fertility and the afterlife, war and peace, and became an evolving institution functioning in part to resolve conflict within and between groups. The contributors provide complete coverage of the archaeological, sociopolitical, iconographic, and ideological aspects of the game, and offer new information on the distribution of ballcourts, new interpretations of mural art, and newly perceived relations of the game with material in the Popol Vuh. With its scholarly attention to a subject that will fascinate even general readers, The Mesoamerican Ballgame is a major contribution to the study of the mental life and outlook of New World peoples.
The Sport Of Life And Death
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Author : E. Michael Whittington
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Sport Of Life And Death written by E. Michael Whittington and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.
The Mesoamerican ballgame was no ordinary sport. Played by the Olmecs, Maya and Aztecs, from at least 1200 BC to the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century AD, it was both a contest of breathtaking athletic skill and a ritual spectacle in which the struggle between the opposing forces of day and night, good and evil, life and death was enacted by the teams on the ballcourt. ''The Sport of Life and Death'', the most comprehensive work ever on the Mesoamerican ballgame, brings together a range of these works of art, of striking beauty, vivacity and power, from tiny jade carvings of the Olmecs depicting their player kings to the ring-shaped stone goals that once stood in Aztec ballcourts. Essays by leading authorities on Mesoamerican art and culture discuss all aspects of the ballgame, such as the natural history of rubber, the magnificent architecture of the ballcourts, the extraordinary equipment worn by the players, the complex religious symbolism and ritual elements of the games and descriptions of versions that are still played today in Mexico.
Ritual Play And Belief In Evolution And Early Human Societies
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Author : Colin Renfrew
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018
Ritual Play And Belief In Evolution And Early Human Societies written by Colin Renfrew and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Social Science categories.
This book presents unique new insights into the development of human ritual and society through our heritage of play and performance.
Ulama
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Author : Ted J. J. Leyenaar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Ulama written by Ted J. J. Leyenaar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Indians of Mexico categories.
The Mesoamerican Ballgame
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Author : Vernon L. Scarborough
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 1993-01-01
The Mesoamerican Ballgame written by Vernon L. Scarborough and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with Social Science categories.
The Precolumbian ballgame, played on a masonry court, has long intrigued scholars because of the magnificence of its archaeological remains. From its lowland Maya origins it spread throughout the Aztec empire, where the game was so popular that sixteen thousand rubber balls were imported annually into Tenochtitlan. It endured for two thousand years, spreading as far as to what is now southern Arizona. This new collection of essays brings together research from field archaeology, mythology, and Maya hieroglyphic studies to illuminate this important yet puzzling aspect of Native American culture. The authors demonstrate that the game was more than a spectator sport; serving social, political, mythological, and cosmological functions, it celebrated both fertility and the afterlife, war and peace, and became an evolving institution functioning in part to resolve conflict within and between groups. The contributors provide complete coverage of the archaeological, sociopolitical, iconographic, and ideological aspects of the game, and offer new information on the distribution of ballcourts, new interpretations of mural art, and newly perceived relations of the game with material in the Popol Vuh. With its scholarly attention to a subject that will fascinate even general readers, The Mesoamerican Ballgame is a major contribution to the study of the mental life and outlook of New World peoples.
Blood And Beauty
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Author : Rex Koontz
language : en
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Release Date : 2009-12-31
Blood And Beauty written by Rex Koontz and has been published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-31 with History categories.
Warfare, ritual human sacrifice, and the rubber ballgame have been the traditional categories through which scholars have examined organized violence in the artistic and material records of ancient Mesoamerica and Central America. This volume expands those traditional categories to include such concerns as gladiatorial-like boxing combats, investiture rites, trophy-head taking and display, dark shamanism, and the subjective pain inherent in acts of violence. Each author examines organized violence as a set of practices grounded in cultural understandings, even when the violence threatens the limits of those understandings. The authors scrutinize the representation of, and relationships between, different types of organized violence, as well as the implications of those activities, which can include the unexpected, such as violence as a means of determining and curing illness, and the use of violence in negotiation strategies.
Ulama
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Author : Ted Leyenaar
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1978
Ulama written by Ted Leyenaar and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Religion categories.
Seeking Conflict In Mesoamerica
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Author : Shawn G. Morton
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2019-11-29
Seeking Conflict In Mesoamerica written by Shawn G. Morton 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 2019-11-29 with Social Science categories.
Seeking Conflict in Mesoamerica focuses on the conflicts of the ancient Maya, providing a holistic history of Maya hostilities and comparing them with those of neighboring Mesoamerican villages and towns. Contributors to the volume explore the varied stories of past Maya conflicts through artifacts, architecture, texts, and images left to posterity. Many studies have focused on the degree to which the prevalence, nature, and conduct of conflict has varied across time and space. This volume focuses not only on such operational considerations but on cognitive and experiential issues, analyzing how the Maya understood and explained conflict, what they recognized as conflict, how conflict was experienced by various groups, and the circumstances surrounding conflict. By offering an emic (internal and subjective) understanding alongside the more commonly researched etic (external and objective) perspective, contributors clarify insufficiencies and address lapses in data and analysis. They explore how the Maya defined themselves within the realm of warfare and examine the root causes and effects of intergroup conflict. Using case studies from a wide range of time periods, Seeking Conflict in Mesoamerica provides a basis for understanding hostilities and broadens the archaeological record for the “seeking” of conflict in a way that has been largely untouched by previous scholars. With broad theoretical reach beyond Mesoamerican archaeology, the book will have wide interdisciplinary appeal and will be important to ethnohistorians, art historians, ethnographers, epigraphers, and those interested in human conflict more broadly. Contributors: Matthew Abtosway, Karen Bassie-Sweet, George J. Bey III, M. Kathryn Brown, Allen J. Christenson, Tomás Gallareta Negrón, Elizabeth Graham, Helen R. Haines, Christopher L. Hernandez, Harri Kettunen, Rex Koontz, Geoffrey McCafferty, Jesper Nielsen, Joel W. Palka, Kerry L. Sagebiel, Travis W. Stanton, Alexandre Tokovinine
Game Of Life And Death
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Author : Felipe R. Solís Olguín
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Game Of Life And Death written by Felipe R. Solís Olguín and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Ball games categories.
Film director Roberto Rochín explains in the introduction the purpose of the book "Over 20 years have passed since the filming of "Ulama, the Game of Life and Death" in 1984.... However, the most important effect of the film has been the resurgence of the 'Ulama' ball game in the state of Sinaloa, which during the 1980's was on the verge of extinction. The ancestral sport is one of the most deep-rooted traditions that captures the very essence of Mexico's glorious past and which, fortunately have endure to the 21st century. Because the hazards of modernity continue to threaten the survival of our traditions, we decided to use this very modernity to our advantage by adapting this classic Mexican documentary film to new formats and incorporate an updated analysis and explanation of the concepts it reflects"--P. 9.
Houses In A Landscape
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Author : Julia A. Hendon
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2010-04-22
Houses In A Landscape written by Julia A. Hendon and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-22 with Social Science categories.
In Houses in a Landscape, Julia A. Hendon examines the connections between social identity and social memory using archaeological research on indigenous societies that existed more than one thousand years ago in what is now Honduras. While these societies left behind monumental buildings, the remains of their dead, remnants of their daily life, intricate works of art, and fine examples of craftsmanship such as pottery and stone tools, they left only a small body of written records. Despite this paucity of written information, Hendon contends that an archaeological study of memory in such societies is possible and worthwhile. It is possible because memory is not just a faculty of the individual mind operating in isolation, but a social process embedded in the materiality of human existence. Intimately bound up in the relations people develop with one another and with the world around them through what they do, where and how they do it, and with whom or what, memory leaves material traces. Hendon conducted research on three contemporaneous Native American civilizations that flourished from the seventh century through the eleventh CE: the Maya kingdom of Copan, the hilltop center of Cerro Palenque, and the dispersed settlement of the Cuyumapa valley. She analyzes domestic life in these societies, from cooking to crafting, as well as public and private ritual events including the ballgame. Combining her findings with a rich body of theory from anthropology, history, and geography, she explores how objects—the things people build, make, use, exchange, and discard—help people remember. In so doing, she demonstrates how everyday life becomes part of the social processes of remembering and forgetting, and how “memory communities” assert connections between the past and the present.