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Author : Henri Stierlin
Publisher : London : Oldbourne
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Living Architecture: Mayan written by Henri Stierlin and published by London : Oldbourne. This book was released on 1964 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Living Architecture written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henri Stierlin
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Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Living Architecture written by Henri Stierlin and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elliot M. Abrams
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292792387
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book How the Maya Built Their World written by Elliot M. Abrams and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maya architecture is often described as "massive" and "monumental," but experiments at Copan, Honduras, convinced Elliot Abrams that 300 people could have built one of the large palaces there in only 100 days. In this groundbreaking work, Abrams explicates his theory of architectural energetics, which involves translating structures into volumes of raw and manufactured materials that are then multiplied by the time required for their production and assembly to determine the labor costs of past construction efforts. Applying this method to residential structures of the Late Classic period (A.D. 700-900) at Copan leads Abrams to posit a six-tiered hierarchic social structure of political decision making, ranging from a stratified elite to low-ranking commoners. By comparing the labor costs of construction and other economic activities, he also prompts a reconsideration of the effects of royal construction demands on commoners. How the Maya Built Their World will interest a wide audience in New and Old World anthropology, archaeology, architecture, and engineering.
Author : Jessica Joyce Christie
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292712448
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Maya Palaces and Elite Residences written by Jessica Joyce Christie and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maya "palaces" have intrigued students of this ancient Mesoamerican culture since the early twentieth century, when scholars first applied the term "palace" to multi-room, gallery-like buildings set on low platforms in the centers of Maya cities. Who lived in these palaces? What types of ceremonial and residential activities took place there? How do the physical forms and spatial arrangement of the buildings embody Maya concepts of social organization and cosmology? This book brings together state-of-the-art data and analysis regarding the occupants, ritual and residential uses, and social and cosmological meanings of Maya palaces and elite residences. A multidisciplinary team of senior researchers reports on sites in Belize (Blue Creek), Western Honduras (Copan), the Peten (Tikal, Dos Pilas, Aguateca), and the Yucatan (Uxmal, Chichen-Itza, Dzibilchaltun, Yaxuna). Archaeologist contributors discuss the form of palace buildings and associated artifacts, their location within the city, and how some palaces related to landscape features. Their approach is complemented by art historical analyses of architectural sculpture, epigraphy, and ethnography. Jessica Joyce Christie concludes the volume by identifying patterns and commonalties that apply not only to the cited examples, but also to Maya architecture in general.
Author : Henri Stierlin
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Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Living Architecture: Ancient Mexican written by Henri Stierlin and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henri Stierlin
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Living Architecture written by Henri Stierlin and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henri Stierlin
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Download or read book Maya. Living Architecture: Mayan. Text and Photographs by Henri Stierlin, Etc written by Henri Stierlin and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Houston
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300196024
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Life Within written by Stephen Houston and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully written and illustrated, The Life Within is the first full study of the vitality and materiality of Classic Maya art and writing and the quest for transcendence and immortality.
Author : Marjorie I. Ingle
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Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Mayan Revival Style written by Marjorie I. Ingle and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Oakley Totten
Publisher : New York : B. Franklin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Maya Architecture written by George Oakley Totten and published by New York : B. Franklin. This book was released on 1973 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maline D. Werness-Rude
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 082635579X
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity written by Maline D. Werness-Rude and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity privileges art historical perspectives in addressing the ways the ancient Maya organized, manipulated, created, interacted with, and conceived of the world around them. The Maya provide a particularly strong example of the ways in which the built and imaged environment are intentionally oriented relative to political, religious, economic, and other spatial constructs. In examining space, the contributors of this volume demonstrate the core interrelationships inherent in a wide variety of places and spaces, both concrete and abstract. They explore the links between spatial order and cosmic order and the possibility that such connections have sociopolitical consequences. This book will prove useful not just to Mayanists but to art historians in other fields and scholars from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, geography, and landscape architecture.
Author : Tatiana Proskouriakoff
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806113517
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (135 download)
Download or read book An Album of Maya Architecture written by Tatiana Proskouriakoff and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1976-04 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the imagination of an artist and the precision of a scientist, Tatiana Proskouriakoff has captured in pictures thirty-six restorations of magnificent Maya buildings as their builders saw the scenes more than a thousand years ago. Facing her painting of each structure is a documented text of archaeological findings and a line drawing of the existing remains. First issued by the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1946, this important volume is returned to print in a new format by the University of Oklahoma Press.
Author : Geoffrey E Braswell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317756088
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book The Maya and Their Central American Neighbors written by Geoffrey E Braswell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Maya created one of the most studied and best-known civilizations of the Americas. Nevertheless, Maya civilization is often considered either within a vacuum, by sub-region and according to modern political borders, or with reference to the most important urban civilizations of central Mexico. Seldom if ever are the Maya and their Central American neighbors of El Salvador and Honduras considered together, despite the fact that they engaged in mutually beneficial trade, intermarried, and sometimes made war on each other. The Maya and Their Central American Neighbors seeks to fill this lacuna by presenting original research on the archaeology of the whole of the Maya area (from Yucatan to the Maya highlands of Guatemala), western Honduras, and El Salvador. With a focus on settlement pattern analyses, architectural studies, and ceramic analyses, this ground breaking book provides a broad view of this important relationship allowing readers to understand ancient perceptions about the natural and built environment, the role of power, the construction of historical narrative, trade and exchange, multiethnic interaction in pluralistic frontier zones, the origins of settled agricultural life, and the nature of systemic collapse.
Author : Lynn V. Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195183634
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (836 download)
Download or read book Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World written by Lynn V. Foster and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : James Doyle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316943143
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (169 download)
Download or read book Architecture and the Origins of Preclassic Maya Politics written by James Doyle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture and the Origins of Preclassic Maya Politics highlights the dramatic changes in the relationship of ancient Maya peoples to the landscape and to each other in the Preclassical period (ca. 2000 BC–250 AD). Offering a comprehensive history of Preclassic Maya society, James Doyle focuses on recent discoveries of early writing, mural painting, stone monuments, and evidence of divine kingship that have reshaped our understanding of cultural developments in the first millennium BC. He also addresses one of the crucial concerns of contemporary archaeology: the emergence of political authorities and their subjects in early complex polities. Doyle shows how architectural trends in the Maya Lowlands in the Preclassic period exhibit the widespread cross-cultural link between monumental architecture of imposing intent, human collaboration, and urbanism.
Author : Shannon E. Plank
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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.
