Maya Archaeology and Ethnohistory /

Maya Archaeology and Ethnohistory / / ed. by Gordon R. Willey, Norman Hammond.

Embracing a wide range of research, this book offers various views on the intellectual history of Maya archaeology and ethnohistory and the processes operating in the rise and fall of Maya civilization. The fourteen studies were selected from those presented at the Second Cambridge Symposium on Rece...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
MitwirkendeR:
Becker, Marshall Joseph,
Brotherston, Gordon,
Cowgill, George L.,
Dahlin, Bruce H.,
Ekholm, Susanna M.,
Farriss, Nancy M.,
Hammond, Norman,
Harrison, Peter D.,
Lee Jr, Thomas A.,
Leventhal, Richard M.,
Miller, Arthur G.,
Puleston, Dennis E.,
Quirarte, Jacinto,
Robertson, Merle Greene,
Turner Ii, B. L.,
Will, Gordon R.,
Willey, Gordon R.,
HerausgeberIn:
Hammond, Norman,
Willey, Gordon R.,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1979
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Texas Pan American Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (310 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contributors
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Theoretical Interpretations
  • 1 Priests, Peasants, and Ceremonial Centers: The Intellectual History of a Model
  • 2 Cropping Cash in the Protoclassic: A Cultural Impact Statement
  • 3 A New Order and the Role of the Calendar: Some Characteristics of the Middle Classic Period at Tikal by Clemency Coggins
  • 4 Teotihuacan, Internal Militaristic Competition, and the Fall of the Classic Maya
  • 5 An Epistemological Pathology and the Collapse, or Why the Maya Kept the Short Count
  • Data Presentations
  • 6 Prehistoric Settlement at Copan by Gordon R. Willey
  • 7 Prehispanic Terracing in the Central Maya Lowlands: Problems of Agricultural Intensification
  • 8 The Representation of Underworld Processions in Maya Vase Painting: An Iconographic Study
  • 9 A Sequence for Palenque Painting Techniques
  • 10 The Lagartero Figurines
  • Ethnohistoric Approaches
  • 11 The Lobil Postclassic Phase in the Southern Interior of the Yucatan Peninsula
  • 12 Coapa, Chiapas: A Sixteenth-Century Coxoh Maya Village on the Camino Real
  • 13 Religious Syncretism in Colonial Yucatan: The Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Evidence from Tancah, Quintana Roo
  • 14 Continuity in Maya Writing: New Readings of Two Passages in the Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel
  • Bibliography
  • General Index
  • Author Index

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