Download or read book Star Gods of the Maya written by Susan Milbrath and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A prodigious work of unmatched interdisciplinary scholarship” on Maya astronomy and religion (Journal of Interdisciplinary History). Observations of the sun, moon, planets, and stars played a central role in ancient Maya lifeways, as they do today among contemporary Maya who maintain the traditional ways. This pathfinding book reconstructs ancient Maya astronomy and cosmology through the astronomical information encoded in Pre-Columbian Maya art and confirmed by the current practices of living Maya peoples. Susan Milbrath opens the book with a discussion of modern Maya beliefs about astronomy, along with essential information on naked-eye observation. She devotes subsequent chapters to Pre-Columbian astronomical imagery, which she traces back through time, starting from the Colonial and Postclassic eras. She delves into many aspects of the Maya astronomical images, including the major astronomical gods and their associated glyphs, astronomical almanacs in the Maya codices and changes in the imagery of the heavens over time. This investigation yields new data and a new synthesis of information about the specific astronomical events and cycles recorded in Maya art and architecture. Indeed, it constitutes the first major study of the relationship between art and astronomy in ancient Maya culture. “Milbrath has given us a comprehensive reference work that facilitates access to a very broad and varied body of literature spanning several disciplines.” ―Isis “Destined to become a standard reference work on Maya archeoastronomy . . . Utterly comprehensive.” —Andrea Stone, Professor of Art History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Download or read book The Sculpture of Yaxchilan written by Peter Mathews and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Art Ideology and the City of Teotihuacan written by Janet Catherine Berlo and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1992 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Royal Courts Of The Ancient Maya written by Takeshi Inomata and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides theory, comparison, and synthesis to establish a carefully considered framework for approaching the study of courts and their functions throughout the world of the ancient Maya. It is based on the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association.

Download or read book Journal of Mesoamerican Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Eighth Palenque Round Table 1993 written by Martha J. Macri and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ideology and Pre Columbian Civilizations written by Arthur Andrew Demarest and published by School of American Research Ad. This book was released on 1992 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The role played by ideology in the evolution of civilizations is being energetically debated by archaeologists, but until now the theoretical debates have had little impact on the actual interpretation of field data from Mesoamerica or South America. Studies on pre-Columbian ideology have generally used historical, ethnohistorical, and iconographic data to look synchronically at specific ancient religions. Little progress has been made in applying archaeological information to address the broader problem of the role of ideology in prehistoric culture change... The authors of these papers take a variety of theoretical approaches, seeking to understand how ideology interacts with the ecological, economic, and political factors involved in culture change. They are concerned not with ideologies or cosmologies per se but with the effect of ideology on power relations, since the expansions and collapses of civilizations are, in the end, the successes and failures of political systems"--Back cover.

Download or read book Maya Dwellings in Hieroglyphs and Archaeology written by Shannon E. Plank and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term otoot or dwelling' appears in many Mayan inscriptions placed on various buildings and built structures. Taking this as a starting point, Shannon Plank embarks on a quest to discern in what ways the Mayans used and conceive of lived space. Looking at four main sites in the Mayan Lowlands - Yaxchilan, Copan, Cichen Itza and Oxkintok - she studies the nature and context of the inscriptions, questions the function and role of the structures and tries to link the two together to reach an understanding both of the use of the term otoot and how it relates to the notion of space conceived by a Mayan elite.

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Download or read book The Frieze of the Palace of the Stuccoes Acanceh Yucat n Mexico written by Virginia E. Miller and published by Genealogical Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LC copy lacks 8 p. of plates; has only p. 4-5, 8-9

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Download or read book Olmec World written by Michael Coe and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1996-03-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1400 and 400 BC, in what is now Mexico and Central America, the Olmec people created a magnificent culture, one too often overshadowed by those of the Maya and the Aztec. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition of over 250 Olmec works of art - ceramic, jade and stone - on display at the Art Museum, Princeton University in December 1995, and travelling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Download or read book The World of the Maya written by Sam Osmanagich and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: