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T1 Substance of the Ancient Maya: kingdoms and communities, objects and beings
A2 Scherer, Andrew K.
A2 Garrison, Thomas Gardner
LA English
PP Albuquerque
PB University of New Mexico Press
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1944987487
AB "Substance of the Ancient Maya: Kingdoms and Communities, Objects and Beings collects twelve essays by top scholars that highlight what is new in research pertaining to the ancient Maya. Subjects range from updated political histories of major kingdoms in the southern Maya Lowlands to explorations of the nature of Maya writing and materiality. These essays were inspired by the scholarship of Stephen Houston and celebrate his transdisciplinary commitment to research in anthropological archaeology, epigraphy, and art history. The contributions in this volume are organized into two sections that respectively reflect different scales from which to approach the substance of the ancient Maya—from hand-held objects to entire kingdoms. This dichotomy reflects the breadth of questions central to current research on the Maya. It also illustrates how certain themes, such as the relationship between the living and the realm of the supernatural, are fundamental to both thinking by and about the Maya at all scales. A diversity of methods is not only embodied by this assemblage of essays but is also spread equally across the two sections of the book, illustrating that archaeologists, epigraphers, geographers, and art historians can equally contribute to the substance of kingdoms and communities, as they can to objects and beings." --
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN F1435
SN 0826366562
SN 9780826366566
K1 Mayas : History
K1 Mayas : Social conditions
K1 Mayas : Antiquities
K1 Droughts : Central America : History
K1 Ethnoecology : Central America
K1 Mayas - Histoire
K1 Mayas - Conditions sociales
K1 Mayas - Antiquités
K1 Sécheresses - Amérique centrale - Histoire
K1 Ethnoécologie - Amérique centrale
K1 Droughts
K1 Ethnoecology
K1 Mayas
K1 Mayas - Antiquities
K1 Mayas - Social conditions
K1 History
K1 Central America