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  • - Unraveling the Mysteries of the Mississippian Cosmos
     
    743,95 kr.

    This extensively illustrated volume provides the first complete visual documentation and a pioneering iconographic analysis of Picture Cave, an eastern Missouri cavern filled with Native American pictographs that is one of the most important prehistoric s

  • - Gender, Age, Memory, and Place
    af Traci Ardren
    208,95 kr.

    Using new archaeological data from four major cities of the Classic Maya world, this book explores how gender, age, familial and community memories, and the experience of living in an urban setting interacted to form social identities.

  • - The Public Sculpture of El Tajin
    af Rex Koontz
    563,95 kr.

    The first extensive treatment in over thirty years of the iconography displayed on public monuments in an important Mesoamerican city in Veracruz, Mexico.

  • - An Interdisciplinary Approach
     
    410,95 kr.

    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.

  • - The Rise and Fall of Classic Maya Rulers
    af Lisa J. Lucero
    298,95 kr.

    A pathbreaking investigation of how water and the rituals that invoked an abundant supply of rain were the keys to political power among the ancient Maya.

  • - The Performance of Rulership in Mesoamerican Izapan Style Art
    af Julia Guernsey
    393,95 kr.

    A masterful art historical analysis of how Late Preclassic (300 BC to AD 250) rulers in Chiapas, Mexico, created an elite visual language to express political and supernatural authority which spread through much of the Maya world.

  • - Life and Death in Guatemala, Second Revised Edition
    af W. George Lovell
    253,95 kr.

    A thoroughly updated and expanded edition of Lovell's classic account of the violence that has wracked Guatemala, from its roots in the colonial past to its aftermath in the twenty-first century

  • - An Ethnography of Tzeltal Souls
    af Pedro Pitarch
    332,95 kr.

    This pathfinding ethnography investigates how Indian concepts of the soul offer a new way of understanding personhood and historical memory in highland Chiapas, Mexico.

  • - The Altarpiece of Santiago Atitlan
    af Allen J. Christenson
    348,95 kr.

    A study of a major piece of modern Mayan religious art.

  • - The Serial Stelae Cycle of "18-Rabbit-God K," King of Copan
    af Elizabeth A. Newsome
    474,95 kr.

    This ambitious study argues that Maya stelae were erected not only to support a ruler's temporal claims to power but more importantly to express the fundamental connection in Maya worldview between rulership and the cosmology inherent in their vision of c

  • - Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos
    af Prudence M. Rice
    414,95 kr.

    Rice builds a new model of Classic lowland Maya (AD 179-948) political organization and political geography.

  • - Reinterpreting Early Classic Interaction
     
    467,95 kr.

    The contributors to this volume present extensive new evidence from archaeology, iconography, and epigraphy to offer a more nuanced understanding of the interaction between the Early Classic Maya and Teotihuacan.

  • - Reading History in the Codex Zouche-Nuttall
    af Robert Lloyd Williams
    297,95 kr.

    A pioneering interpretation of an ancient Mixtec painted book that offers a unique window into how the Mixtecs themselves viewed their social and political cosmos.

  • - Mesoamerican Ritual Cave Use
     
    489,95 kr.

    This volume gathers papers from twenty prominent Mesoamerican archaeologists, linguists, and ethnographers to present a state-of-the-art survey of ritual cave use in Mesoamerica from Pre-Columbian times to the present.

  • - Rituals of Body and Soul
    af Andrew K. Scherer
    608,95 kr.

    Through a wealth of previously unpublished primary data, Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya examines Mayan death rites across sites, social classes, and kingdoms.

  • af Robert M. Laughlin
    483,95 kr.

    A history of and collection of translated plays from Mexico's most renowned Mayan theatre group.

  • - Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World
     
    433,95 kr.

    Advancing the study of prehistoric Mississippian art that began in Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms, this volume presents a groundbreaking examination of regional variations in the shared iconography of indigenous cultures in the southeastern United States.

  • - Interpretations of Mississippian Iconography
     
    355,95 kr.

    A major reconstruction of the rituals, cosmology, ideology, and political structures of the prehistoric native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and Southeastern United States.

  • - Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars
    af Susan Milbrath
    437,95 kr.

    This pathfinding book reconstructs ancient Maya astronomy and cosmology through the astronomical information encoded in Precolumbian Maya art and confirmed by the current practices of living Maya peoples.

  • - Maya Art and Kingship at Quirigua
    af Matthew George Looper
    343,95 - 443,95 kr.

  • af Amber M. VanDerwarker
    348,95 kr.

    The first comprehensive study of Olmec foodways and subsistence patterns and their relation to the development of institutionalized leadership.

  • - Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization
    af Matthew G. Looper
    563,95 kr.

    Drawing on a wealth of evidence from epigraphy, iconography, style, and architectural analysis, Looper offers the first extensive interpretation of the role of dance in ancient Maya society.

  • - Identity, Representation, and Leadership
    af Victor D. Montejo
    188,95 kr.

    A leading Mayan intellectual and activist discusses the Maya movement and the future of Guatemala.

  • af James L. Fitzsimmons
    563,95 kr.

    The first comprehensive study of ancient Maya death rites in twenty years.

  • - Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art
    af Rebecca R. Stone
    593,95 kr.

    An important new way of viewing the prehistoric art of the Americas, The Jaguar Within demonstrates that understanding a work of art's connection with shamanic trance can lead to an appreciation of it as an extremely creative solution to the inherent challenge of giving material form to nonmaterial realities and states of being.