Download or read book El Calendario azteca y otros monumentos solares written by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Order of Days written by David Stuart and published by Doubleday Religion. This book was released on 2011 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's foremost expert on Mayan culture takes a hard look at the frenzy over 2012 and offers a fascinating (and accurate) trip through Mayan culture and belief.
Download or read book The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire written by John M. D. Pohl and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication is issued in conjunction with the exhibition, The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire, on view in the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa in Malibu, from March 24 through July 5, 2010"--T.p. verso.
Download or read book The Archaeology of Politics written by Andrew M. Bauer and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Archaeology of Politics is a collection of essays that examines political action and practice in the past through studies and analyses of material culture from the perspective of anthropological archaeology. Contributors to this volume explore a variety of multi-scalar relationships between past peoples, places, objects and environments. At stake in this volume is what it is that constitutes politics, its social and cultural location, fields of analysis, its materiality and sociology and especially its position and possibilities as a conceptual and analytical category in archaeological investigations of past socio-cultural worlds. Our primary goals are twofold: the problematization and re-conceptualization of politics from its understanding as a reified essence or structure of political forms (e.g., a State) to a fluid, dynamic and culturally inflected set of practices; and, second, to consider politics’ entanglement with the materiality of socio-cultural worlds at multiple-scales through the demonstration of innovative analytical approaches to the material record. The volume is a tightly integrated group of essays exploring an assortment of case studies that offer new theoretical insight to archaeological and historical analyses of politics.
Download or read book Astronomers Scribes and Priests written by Gabrielle Vail and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines evidence for cultural interchange among the intellectual powerbrokers in Postclassic Mesoamerica, specifically those centered in the northern Maya lowlands and the central Mexican highlands. It includes a wealth of new data and interpretive frameworks in a comprehensive discussion of a critical time period in Mesoamerica.
Download or read book Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems written by Katarzyna Mikulksa and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems challenges the adequacy of Western academic views on what writing is and explores how they can be expanded by analyzing the sophisticated graphic communication systems found in Central Mesoamerica and Andean South America. By examining case studies from across the Americas, the authors pursue an enhanced understanding of Native American graphic communication systems and how the study of graphic expression can provide insight into ancient cultures and societies, expressed in indigenous words. Focusing on examples from Central Mexico and the Andes, the authors explore the overlap among writing, graphic expression, and orality in indigenous societies, inviting reevaluation of the Western notion that writing exists only to record language (the spoken chain of speech) as well as accepted beliefs of Western alphabetized societies about the accuracy, durability, and unambiguous nature of their own alphabetized texts. The volume also addresses the rapidly growing field of semasiography and relocates it more productively as one of several underlying operating principles in graphic communication systems. Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems reports new results and insights into the meaning of the rich and varied content of indigenous American graphic expression and culture as well as into the societies and cultures that produce them. It will be of great interest to Mesoamericanists, students, and scholars of anthropology, archaeology, art history, ancient writing systems, and comparative world history. The research for and publication of this book have been supported in part by the National Science Centre of Poland (decision no. NCN-KR-0011/122/13) and the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Contributors: Angélica Baena Ramírez, Christiane Clados, Danièle Dehouve, Stanisław Iwaniszewski, Michel R. Oudijk, Katarzyna Szoblik, Loïc Vauzelle, Gordon Whittaker, Janusz Z. Wołoszyn, David Charles Wright-Carr
Download or read book Western Mesoamerican Calendars and Writing Systems written by Mikkel Bøg Clemmensen and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mesoamerica is one of the few places to witness the independent invention of writing. Bringing together new research, papers discuss the writing systems of Teotihuacan, Mixteca Baja, the Epiclassic period and Aztec writing of the Postclassic. These writing systems represent more than a millennium of written records and literacy in Mesoamerica.
Download or read book Conceptualization of xihuitl written by Mutsumi Izeki and published by BAR International Series. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is concerned with how the Postclassic Mexica people developed their unique perspective of history and environment in a dynamic cultural context. By focusing on the process of conceptualization of the Nahuatl word 'xihuitl', the author analyzes the way the Mexica expressed their cognition. Xihuitl covers a range of meanings: 'turquoise', 'grass', 'solar year', 'comet', 'preciousness', 'blue-green' and 'fire'. The correlations of the meanings of xihuitl can be explained from a structural point of view. However, structural analysis does not reveal the dynamic experiential processes that produced such correlations in the minds of the Mexica. In order to account for this dynamic aspect of the concept, the author employs a theory drawn from cognitive science. This theory argues that the meanings and representations of a concept are metaphoric extensions that derive from the central sense of the concept. Applying this theory, the author examines the metaphoric extension of each xihuitl representation from the central sense. The author also analyzes the four media of expression-linguistic, iconographic, material and ritual-in which representations of xihuitl occur. The representations of xihuitl in each medium embody a particular aspect of the concept. At the same time, the concept as a whole was affected by the Mexica conceptual system-the way the Mexica saw their world-rooted in the connections they believed existed between themselves and those who established earlier Central Mexican civilizations.
Download or read book Unseen Art written by Claudia Brittenham and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how ancient Mesoamerican sculpture was experienced by its original audiences.
Download or read book Engendering Social Dynamics written by Sandra Montón-Subías and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of papers which aim to promote a better understanding of the importance of maintenance activities within societies and economies, and to demostrate how they might be studied archaeologically.
Download or read book Arqueolog a e historia del Centro de M xico written by Leonardo López Luján and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In homage of the brilliant and productive career of more than 4 decades of archaeologist Matos Moctezuma the INAH and the University of Harvard organized in 2003 a series of academic meetings in his honor in the National Museum of Anthropology and History in Mexico City. This anthological edition gathers the papers presented by international contributors who presented their most resent works regarding the academic contributions of Matos Moctezuma along research papers of the archaeology and history of the Pre-Columbian societies of Central México.
Download or read book The Mayas written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book El M xico antiguo written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Zapotec Numerical and Calendrical System written by Deborah De Baun Putzey and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Selected Bibliography on Native American Astronomy written by Beth Ann Collea and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Latin American Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
