Format:
399 pages
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illustrations (some color)
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30 cm
ISBN:
9783931419264
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3931419266
Series Statement:
Acta MesoAmericana volume 27
Content:
In memoriam: obituaries to a great scholar. Pieere Robert Colas (13 January 1976-26 August 2008) / Nikolai Grube; In memoriam: Pierre Robert Colas / Stanley Guenter ; Pierre Robert Colas / Frauke Sachse ; Those whom the gods love die young : in memory of Pierre Robert Colas (1976-2008) / Gordon Whittaker -- Explorations in Mesoamerican epigraphy and iconography. Personal names: the creation of social status among the Classic Maya / Pierre Robert Colas ; The naming insight : hieroglyphic names & social identity in the Pre-Columbian Americas / Marc Zender ; The monuments of the 8 Ajaw House : new evidence on the Calakmul-Uxul relationship / Nikolai Grube and Kai Delvendahl ; The sculptural frieze of Structure A-6-2nd, Xunantunich Belize : a preliminary iconographic analysis / Elisabeth Wagner ; E pluribus unum : embracing vernacular influences in Classic Mayan scribal tradition / Sven Gronemeyer ; The Maya ballgame and the Maize God : notes on the codex style ballgame vessel in the collection of the Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, the Netherlands / Erik Boot ; "To sing arrows" : observations on the representation of sound in the writing and iconography of Teotihuacan / Jesper Nielsen -- The archaeology of caves and surface sites. Epigraphc and archaeological evidence for cave description in ancient Maya warfare / Christophe Helmke and James E. Brady ; Geoarchaeological research on the northern Vaca Plateau, Belize / Philip P. Reeder, William Reynolds, James Webster and Ulrich Wölfel ; Zur Problematik kultureller Kontiniutät in der Höhlenarchäologie / Lars Frühsorge ; Prehistoric settlement patterns in the Upper Belize River Valley and their implications for models of low-density urbanism / Jaime J. Awe. Julie A. Hoggarth and Chrsitophe Helmke -- Yuratek Maya language, texts and culture. Of cuning and vultures / Annette I. Kern, Karl Kramer and Ortwin Smailus ; A short history of San Antonio, Cayo District, Belize / Ortwin Smailus ;
Content:
Global rhythmns, local lyrics : on the relevance of historical roots in contemporary discourse on Cruzoob-identity in Quintana Roo / Armin Hinz -- Social and ethnic identity in eastern Mesoamerica. Ethnic stereotypes in Tzotzil ritual humor / Victoria R. Bricker ; "Our parents don't talk like us" : migration, adolescence and new dialect formation in Q'eqchi' Maya / Sergio Romero ; Cultivating marginality : the process of reconstructing identity and the development of Xinka cultural activism in southeastern Guatemala / Frauke Sachse ; Defining/defying Mayan sacred space : the legal battle over cultural definitions and rights in Guatemala / Judith M. Maxwell ; Different identities for different contexts / Fernando Tzib.
Note:
Memorial volume
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Includes bibliography of Pierre Robert Colas (pages 11-12) -- Includes bibliographical references
Language:
English
Keywords:
Festschrift
Author information:
Colas, Pierre Robert 1976-2008
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