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Author : John S. Henderson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0801482844
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 : Lynn V. Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0195183630
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 : Kelli Carmean
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785335501
Set in the Maya civilization’s Late Classic Period House of the Waterlily is a historical novel centered on Lady Winik, a young Maya royal. Through tribulations that mirror the political calamities of the Late Classic world, Winik’s personal story immerses the reader not only in her daily life, but also in the difficult decisions Maya men and women must have faced as they tried to navigate a rapidly changing world. Kelli Carmean’s novel brings to life a people and an era remote from our own, yet recognizably human all the same.
Author : Barbara A. Somervill
Publisher : C. Press/F. Watts Trade
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-07
Category : Central America
ISBN : 0531259811
Read about the ancient Maya civilization.
Author : Matthew Restall
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804765008
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 : Jennifer Fretland VanVoorst
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756545642
Describes the Ancient Mayan civilization, including their religious views, intellectual achievements, and everyday life.
Author : Marilyn A. Masson,David A. Freidel
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0759100810
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 : Charles Hofer
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781508149040
At their peak, the ancient Maya lived in one of the most advanced civilizations in the world. Their calendar system, celestial observations, and architecture give us clues to the greatness of their technology. This book introduces readers to the many unique technological devices and breakthroughs created by the ancient Maya. Readers will learn about the historical context of Maya technology through primary sources, such as artifacts and architectural ruins, and accessible, fact-filled text. Photographs of what the Maya left behind will give readers an in-depth look into the amazing creations of this ancient civilization.
Author : Jackie Maloy
Publisher : C. Press/F. Watts Trade
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0531241106
Provides information about the ancient Maya, discussing farming, daily life, beliefs, and other related topics.
Author : Eleanor M. King
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816532179
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 : Arthur Demarest
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0521533902
Ancient Maya comes to life in this new holistic and theoretical study.
Author : T. Patrick Culbert
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173013776023
Describes the history and culture of the Mayan Indians.
Author : David Freidel,Linda Schele
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0688112048
The recent interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs has given us the first written history of the New World as it existed before the European invasion. In this book, two of the first central figures in the massive effort to decode the glyphs, Linda Schele and David Freidel, make this history available in all its detail. A Forest of Kings is the story of Maya kingship, from the beginning of its institution and the first great pyramid builders two thousand years ago to the decline of Maya civilization and its destruction by the Spanish. Here the great historic rulers of pre-Columbian civilization come to life again with the decipherment of their writing. At its height, Maya civilization flourished under great kings like Shield-Jaguar, who ruled for more than sixty years, expanding his kingdom and building some of the most impressive works of architecture in the ancient world. Long placed on a mist-shrouded pedestal as austere, peaceful stargazers, the Maya elites are now known to have been the rulers of populous, aggressive city-states. Hailed as "a Rosetta stone of Maya civilization" (Brian M. Fagan, author of People of the Earth), A Forest of Kings is "a must for interested readers," says Evon Vogt, professor of anthropology at Harvard University.
Author : Lewis Spence
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780486845005
Transcribed from Mayan hieroglyphs, the Popol Vuh relates the mythology and history of the Kiché people of Central America. There is no document of greater importance to the study of pre-Columbian mythology.
Author : Carlos Barrios
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780061887444
“Face to face with the schism caused by rational and scientific thought, Carlos Barrios undertakes an authentic and passionate search, bringing us close to the Cosmovision of one of the most ancient and wise people of our continent.” — Nobel Laureate Ernesto Sabato James Redfield’s The Celestine Prophecy and the writings of Nostradamus meet Don Miguel Ruiz’s The Four Agreements and the work of Carolyn Myss (Anatomy of the Spirit, Sacred Contracts) in The Book of Destiny: Unlocking the Secrets of the Ancient Mayans and the Prophecy of 2012. A contemporary Mayan Priest and Shaman reveals the genius of the ancient Mayan calendar and its accompanying horoscope, and examines in depth the ancient 2012 prophecy that many believe will forever change the world as we know it. The Book of Destiny is the most complete and authentic book on the secrets of the ancient Mayan culture and what it means for readers today.