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Author : Barbara A. Somervill
Publisher : C. Press/F. Watts Trade
ISBN 13 : 9780531259818
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (598 download)
Download or read book Ancient Maya written by Barbara A. Somervill and published by C. Press/F. Watts Trade. This book was released on 2012-09-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read about the ancient Maya civilization.
Author : John S. Henderson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801482847
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)
Download or read book The World of the Ancient Maya written by John S. Henderson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theirs was one of the few complex societies to emerge in and to adapt successfully to a tropical-forest environment. Their architecture, sculpture, and painting were sophisticated and compellingly beautiful.
Author : Matthew Restall
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804765006
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Maya World written by Matthew Restall and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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 : Marilyn A. Masson
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759100817
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Ancient Maya Political Economies written by Marilyn A. Masson and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2002 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Maya Political Economies examines variation in systems of economic production and exchange and how these systems supported the power networks that integrated Maya society. Using models originally developed by William L. Rathje, the authors explore core-periphery relations, the use of household analysis to reconstruct political economy, and evidence for market development. In doing so, they challenge the conventional wisdom of decentralized Maya political authority and replace it with a more complex view of the political economic foundations of Maya civilization.
Author : Jackie Maloy
Publisher : C. Press/F. Watts Trade
ISBN 13 : 9780531241103
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Maya written by Jackie Maloy and published by C. Press/F. Watts Trade. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information about the ancient Maya, discussing farming, daily life, beliefs, and other related topics.
Author : Eleanor M. King
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816532176
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Maya Marketplace written by Eleanor M. King and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-11-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trading was the favorite occupation of the Maya, according to early Spanish observers such as Fray Diego de Landa (1566). Yet scholars of the Maya have long dismissed trade—specifically, market exchange—as unimportant. They argue that the Maya subsisted primarily on agriculture, with long-distance trade playing a minor role in a largely non-commercialized economy. The Ancient Maya Marketplace reviews the debate on Maya markets and offers compelling new evidence for the existence and identification of ancient marketplaces in the Maya Lowlands. Its authors rethink the prevailing views about Maya economic organization and offer new perspectives. They attribute the dearth of Maya market research to two factors: persistent assumptions that Maya society and its rainforest environment lacked complexity, and an absence of physical evidence for marketplaces—a problem that plagues market research around the world. Many Mayanists now agree that no site was self-sufficient, and that from the earliest times robust local and regional exchange existed alongside long-distance trade. Contributors to this volume suggest that marketplaces, the physical spaces signifying the presence of a market economy, did not exist for purely economic reasons but served to exchange information and create social ties as well. The Ancient Maya Marketplace offers concrete links between Maya archaeology, ethnohistory, and contemporary cultures. Its in-depth review of current research will help future investigators to recognize and document marketplaces as a long-standing Maya cultural practice. The volume also provides detailed comparative data for premodern societies elsewhere in the world.
Author : Victor W. Von Hagen
Publisher : Signet
ISBN 13 : 9780451609403
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The World of the Maya written by Victor W. Von Hagen and published by Signet. This book was released on 1969-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Demarest
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521533904
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (339 download)
Download or read book Ancient Maya written by Arthur Demarest and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-09 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Maya comes to life in this new holistic and theoretical study.
Author : Jeremy A. Sabloff
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1466814446
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The New Archaeology and the Ancient Maya written by Jeremy A. Sabloff and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 1994-08-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowadays, archaeological investigators don't just dig up the past They use high-tech equipment, chemical analyses, sampling strategies, and other modern means to gain a better understanding of why and how cultures change. Using the study of the Maya as a test case, Jeremy Sabloff shows how the exciting transformation of archaeology is shedding new light on past civilizations.
Author : Carla McKinney Brenner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya written by Carla McKinney Brenner and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Popol Vuh written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. Patrick Culbert
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book MAYA CIVILIZATION written by T. Patrick Culbert and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1993 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history and culture of the Mayan Indians.
Author : Nancy Day
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822530770
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Your Travel Guide to the Ancient Mayan Civilization written by Nancy Day and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes readers on a journey back in time in order to experience life during the Maya civilization, describing clothing, accommodations, foods, local customs, transportation, a few notable personalities, and more.
Author : Edward Wyllys Andrews
Publisher : School of American Research Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Copán written by Edward Wyllys Andrews and published by School of American Research Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects leading scholarship on one of the most important archaeological complexes in the ancient Maya world. The authors--internationally renowned experts who participated in the long-running Copan Acropolis Archaeological Project--address enduring themes in Maya archaeology. In addition to site-specific breakthroughs involving dynastic sequences, epigraphy, and chronologies, these essays explore questions of broad interest to archaeologists and other anthropologists, including state formation, architecture and space, and the relationship between history and archaeology as well as among archaeology, epigraphy, and iconography.
Author : Jennifer Fretland VanVoorst
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 0756545641
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (565 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Maya written by Jennifer Fretland VanVoorst and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2013 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the Ancient Mayan civilization, including their religious views, intellectual achievements, and everyday life.
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Publisher : Vendome Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865652842
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (528 download)
Download or read book Royal Cities of the Ancient Maya written by and published by Vendome Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the rise and fall of Maya civilization through its great royal cities, from El Mirador, the largest and oldest, to the rival city-states of the Classical period such as Tikal, Calakmul, Yaxchilán, Palenque, Toniná, and Copán. He then moves on to the great cities of the Terminal Classic period; at a time when the mighty centers of the southern lowlands were in a steep decline, cities to the north such as Uxmal and Kabah achieved a pinnacle of architectural beauty. After that he turns to the Postclassic period and Chichén Itzá in central Yucatán, a huge, cosmopolitan city that flourished during a military and cultural takeover by the Toltecs of central Mexico.
