Yaxchilan : : The Design of a Maya Ceremonial City / / 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....
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations Used
- Preface
- Part One. Maya by Design
- 1. Maya Society in the Ceremonial City
- 2. Public Art: Aesthetics and Artists
- 3. Manifesting Tradition: Imagery at Yaxchilan, Part I, The Cosmos, Rulers, and Regalia
- 4 Manifesting Tradition: Imagery at Yaxchilan, Part II, Scenes of Royal Ritual
- 5. The City as a Solar Cosmogram
- 6. The Design of the Ceremonial City: A History
- 7. Individualism and the Collapse
- Conclusions: The Art of Tradition
- Part Two. Description of the Site and Its Monuments
- Appendix 1. Location of Monumental Sculptures at Yaxchilan upon Discovery
- Appendix 2. Chronology of Yaxchilan
- Appendix 3. English Paraphrases of Yaxchilan Hieroglyphic Texts
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index