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  • Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life

    Popol Vuh, the Quiché Mayan book of creation is not only the most important text in the native language of the Americas, it is also an extraordinary document of the human imagination. It begins with the deeds of Mayan Gods in the darkness of a primeval sea and ends with the radiant splendor of the Mayan Lords who founded the Quiché Kingdom in the Guatemalan highlands. Originally written in Mayan ... Read more

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  • Rabinal Achi

    A Mayan Drama of War and Sacrifice

    Here is one of the most important surviving works of pre-Columbian civilization, Rabinal Achi, a Mayan drama set a century before the arrival of the Spanish, produced by the translator of the best selling Popol Vuh. The first direct translation into English from Quiché Maya, based on the original text, Rabinal Achi is the story of city-states, war, and nobility, of diplomacy, mysticism, and ... Read more

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  • Rabinal Achi

    A Mayan Drama of War and Sacrifice

    Here is one of the most important surviving works of pre-Columbian civilization, Rabinal Achi, a Mayan drama set a century before the arrival of the Spanish, produced by the translator of the best selling Popol Vuh. The first direct translation into English from Quiché Maya, based on the original text, Rabinal Achi is the story of city-states, war, and nobility, of diplomacy, mysticism, and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Olson Codex

    Projective Verse and the Problem of Mayan Glyphs

    Series series Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics
    This exploration of the influence of Mayan hieroglyphics on the great American poet Charles Olson (1910–1970) is an important document in the history of New World verse. Olson spent six months in the Yucatan in 1951 studying Maya culture and language, an interlude that has been largely overlooked by students of his work. Like Olson and Robert Creeley, Olson’s disciple who published Olson’s letters ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • An Archaeology of Architecture

    Photowriting the Built Environment

    Page by page, this book takes us on a journey through the built world that ranges from Greece to Guatemala and from New York to San Francisco. Tedlock practices what he calls photowriting, a creative process that brings photographer and writer together in the same person. It may be true enough that a photograph can show more than words can say, but it is equally true that words can say more than a ... Read more

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    Book 3 of The MaddAddam Trilogy

    Series Book 3 - The MaddAddam Trilogy
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  • Maya Gods of War

    Numerous archaeological projects have found substantial evidence of the military nature of Maya society, and warfare is a frequent theme of Maya art. Maya Gods of War investigates the Classic period Maya gods who were associated with weapons of war and the flint and obsidian from which those weapons were made.Author Karen Bassie-Sweet traces the semantic markers used to distinguish flint from ... Read more

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  • The Maya

    The definitive history of the Maya, fully updated with the latest archaeological studies and featuring full-color illustrations.The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the ancient Maya by experts Michael D. Coe and Stephen Houston. In this new edition, this classic has been updated by distilling the latest scholarship for the general reader and student.This ... Read more

    $21.49 USD

  • The Memory of Bones

    Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya

    Series series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
    An analysis of the intellectual and emotional life of ancient Mesoamerican people through studies of figural works and inscriptions.All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But is it possible for us, embodied as we are in a particular time and place, to know how people of long ago thought about the body and its experiences? ... Read more

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  • The Teotihuacan Trinity

    The Sociopolitical Structure of an Ancient Mesoamerican City

    Series series The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere
    Northeast of modern-day Mexico City stand the remnants of one of the world's largest preindustrial cities, Teotihuacan. Monumental in scale, Teotihuacan is organized along a three-mile-long thoroughfare, the Avenue of the Dead, that leads up to the massive Pyramid of the Moon. Lining the avenue are numerous plazas and temples, which indicate that the city once housed a large population that ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • To Be Like Gods

    Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization

    Series series The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
    Winner, Association for Latin American Art Book Award, 2010The Maya of Mexico and Central America have performed ritual dances for more than two millennia. Dance is still an essential component of religious experience today, serving as a medium for communication with the supernatural. During the Late Classic period (AD 600-900), dance assumed additional importance in Maya royal courts through an ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Yaxchilan

    The Design of a Maya Ceremonial City

    As archaeologists peel away the jungle covering that has both obscured and preserved the ancient Maya cities of Mexico and Central America, other scholars have only a limited time to study and understand the sites before the jungle, weather, and human encroachment efface them again, perhaps forever. This urgency underlies Yaxchilan: The Design of a Maya Ceremonial City, Carolyn Tate's ... Read more

    $38.69 USD