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  • As the Gods Kill

    Morality and Social Violence among the Precolonial Maya

    de Andrew K. Scherer ...
    An exploration of war, violence, and sacrifice in precolonial Maya culture and its importance in religious practices.As the Gods Kill delivers new insights into warfare, weaponry, violence, and human sacrifice among the ancient Maya. While attending to the particularity of a singular historical context, anthropologist and archaeologist Andrew Scherer also suggests that Maya practices have ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya

    Rituals of Body and Soul

    de Andrew K. Scherer ...
    Series series The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
    From the tombs of the elite to the graves of commoners, mortuary remains offer rich insights into Classic Maya society. In Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya: Rituals of Body and Soul, the anthropological archaeologist and bioarchaeologist Andrew K. Scherer explores the broad range of burial practices among the Maya of the Classic period (AD 250–900), integrating information gleaned from his ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • The Outer Heliosphere: The Next Frontiers

    de E. Marsch, H.-J. Fahr, K. Scherer ...
    Series Libro 11 - Cospar
    The eleventh COSPAR colloquium The Outer Heliosphere: The Next Frontiers was held in Potsdam, Germany, from 24-28 July, 2000, and is the second dedicated to this subject after the first one held in Warsaw, Poland in 1989.Roughly a century has passed after the first ideas by Oliver Lodge, George Francis Fitzgerald and Kristan Birkeland about particle clouds emanating from the Sun and interacting ... Leer más

    $305.99 USD

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  • Maya Gods of War

    de Karen Bassie-Sweet ...
    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 ... Leer más

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  • Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica

    Edición de Joshua Englehardt, Michael D. Carrasco ...
    Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica explores the role of interregional interaction in the dynamic sociocultural processes that shaped the pre-Columbian societies of Mesoamerica. Interdisciplinary contributions from leading scholars investigate linguistic exchange and borrowing, scribal practices, settlement patterns, ceramics, iconography, and trade systems, presenting a variety of ... Leer más

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  • The Maya

    de Michael D. Coe, Stephen Houston ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Pre-Columbian America

    Empires of the New World

    de Kathleen Kuiper ...
    Series series Britannica Guide to Ancient Civilizations
    From the Mayan calendar to the Toltec architecture at Chichén Itzá, the bequests of ancient Mesoamerican civilizations have endured long after the societies that created them declined. The intellectual and cultural achievements of Pre-Columbian America rivaled those of ancient Rome and Egypt, and greatly enriched the landscape of present-day Mexico and Central America. The traditions, social ... Leer más

    $37.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Teotihuacan Trinity

    The Sociopolitical Structure of an Ancient Mesoamerican City

    de Annabeth Headrick ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • To Be Like Gods

    Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization

    de Matthew G. Looper ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • Mesoamerican Archaeology

    Theory and Practice

    Edición de Julia A. Hendon, Lisa Overholtzer, Rosemary A. Joyce ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology
    A unique and wide-ranging introduction to the major prehispanic and colonial societies of Mexico and Central America, featuring new and revised material throughoutMesoamerican Archaeology: Theory and Practice, Second Edition, provides readers with a diverse and well-balanced view of the archaeology of the indigenous societies of Mexico and Central America, helping students better understand key ... Leer más

    $47.00 USD

  • Yaxchilan

    The Design of a Maya Ceremonial City

    de Carolyn E. Tate ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica

    de Rosemary A. Joyce ...
    Gender was a fluid potential, not a fixed category, before the Spaniards came to Mesoamerica. Childhood training and ritual shaped, but did not set, adult gender, which could encompass third genders and alternative sexualities as well as "male" and "female." At the height of the Classic period, Maya rulers presented themselves as embodying the entire range of gender possibilities, from male ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD