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Explores the visual world of the Maya, explaining how and why the Maya created paintings, sculpture and monuments. With an array of new material, from recent finds including the La Corona panels, to new studies of the monuments at Palenque, Zotz and elsewhere, to the beautiful wall paintings discovered in recent years, this new edition will be essential reading.
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Mesoamerican Plazas
Until now, archaeological and historical studies of Mesoamerican plazas have been scarce compared to studies of the surrounding monumental architecture such as pyramidal temples and palaces. Many scholars have assumed that ancient Mesoamericans invested their labor, wealth, and symbolic value in pyramids and other prominent buildings, viewing plazas as by-products of these buildings. Even when researchers have recognized the potential significance of plazas, they have thought that plazas as vacant spaces could offer few clues about their cultural and political roles.Mesoamerican Plazaschallenges both of these assumptions.The primary question that has motivated the contributors is how Mesoamerican plazas became arenas for the creation and negotiation of social relations and values in a community. The thirteen contributions stress the significance of interplay between power relations and embodied practices set in specific historical and material settings, as outlined by practice theory and performance theory. This approach allows the contributors to explore broader anthropological issues, such as the negotiation of power relations, community making, and the constitution of political authorities.Overall, the contributions establish that physical interactions among people in communal events were not the outcomes of political machinations held behind the scenes, but were the actual political processes through which people created, negotiated, and subverted social realities. If so, spacious plazas that were arguably designed for interactions among a large number of individuals must have also provided critical arenas for the constitution and transformation of society.
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Ritual and power in stone : the performance of rulership in Mesoamerican Izapan style art
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.
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Construction of Maya Space
Construction of Maya Spaces sheds new light on how Maya
society may have shaped-and been shaped by-the constructed
environment. Moving beyond the towering pyramids and temples often
associated with Maya spaces, this volume focuses on how those in
power used features such as walls, roads, rails, and symbolic
boundaries to control those without power, and how the powerless
pushed back. Through fifteen engaging chapters, contributors
examine the construction of spatial features by ancient, historic,
and contemporary Maya elite and nonelite peoples to understand how
they used spaces differently. Through cutting-edge methodologies
and case studies, chapters consider how and why Maya people
connected and divided the spaces they used daily in their homes, in
their public centers, in their sacred places such as caves, and
across their regions to inform us about the mental constructs they
used to create their lives and cultures of the past.
Contributors Elias Alcocer Puerto Alejandra Alonso
Olvera Traci Ardren Jaime J. Awe Alejandra Badillo Sánchez Nicolas
C. Barth Grace Lloyd Bascopé Adolpho Iván Batún-Alpuche Elizabeth
Beckner M. Kathryn Brown Bernadette Cap Miguel Covarrubias Reyna
Juan Fernandez Diaz Alberto G. Flores Colin Thomas H. Guderjan C.
Colleen Hanratty Héctor Hernández Álvarez Scott R. Hutson Joshua J.
Kwoka Whitney Lytle Aline Magnoni Jennifer P. Mathews Stephanie J.
Miller Shawn G. Morton Holley Moyes Shannon Plank Dominique Rissolo
Patrick Rohrer Carmen Rojas Sandoval Justine M. Shaw J. Gregory
Smith Travis W. Stanton Karl A. Taube Daniel Vallejo-Cáliz
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Maya architecture : temples in the sky
A discussion of Maya buildings through the eyes of an architect.
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Kukulcan's Realm
Kukulcan's Realmchronicles the fabric of socioeconomic relationships and religious practice that bound the Postclassic Maya city of Mayapán's urban residents together for nearly three centuries. Presenting results of ten years of household archaeology at the city, including field research and laboratory analysis, the book discusses the social, political, economic, and ideological makeup of this complex urban center.
Masson and Peraza Lope's detailed overview provides evidence of a vibrant market economy that played a critical role in the city's political and economic success. They offer new perspectives from the homes of governing elites, secondary administrators, affluent artisans, and poorer members of the service industries. Household occupational specialists depended on regional trade for basic provisions that were essential to crafting industries, sustenance, and quality of life. Settlement patterns reveal intricate relationships of households with neighbors, garden plots, cultivable fields, thoroughfares, and resources. Urban planning endeavored to unite the cityscape and to integrate a pluralistic populace that derived from hometowns across the Yucatán peninsula.
New data from Mayapán, the pinnacle of Postclassic Maya society, contribute to a paradigm change regarding the evolution and organization of Maya society in general and makeKukulcan's Realma must-read for students and scholars of the ancient Maya and Mesoamerica.
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Space and Sculpture in the Classic Maya City
\"In this book, Alexander Parmington combines an examination of space, access control and sculptural themes and placement, to propose how images and texts controlled movement in Classic Maya cities. Using Palenque as a case study, this book analyzes specific building groups and sculptures to provide insight into the hierarchical distribution and use of ritual and administrative space in temple and palace architecture. Identifying which spaces were the more accessible and therefore more public, and which spaces were more segregated and consequently more private, Dr. Parmington demonstrates how sculptural, iconographic, and hieroglyphic content varies considerably when found in public/common or private/elite space. Drawing on specific examples from the Classic Maya and other early civilizations, he demonstrates that by examining the intent in the distribution of architecture and art, the variation and function of the artistic themes represented in sculpture and other monumental works of art can be better understood\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Space and Sculpture in the Classic Maya City
In this book, Alexander Parmington examines how images, texts and architectural form controlled and channelled movement of particular sets of people through various precincts in Classic Maya cities. Using Palenque as a case study, this book analyses specific building groups and corresponding sculptures to provide insight into the hierarchical distribution and use of ritual and administrative space in temple and palace architecture. Identifying which spaces were the most accessible and most public, and which spaces were segregated and highly private, Dr Parmington demonstrates how sculptural, iconographic and hieroglyphic content varies considerably when found in public/common or private/elite space. Drawing on specific examples from the Classic Maya and other early civilisations, he demonstrates that by examining the intent in the distribution of architecture and art, the variation and function of the artistic themes represented in sculpture and other monumental works of art can be better understood.
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