Format:
Online-Ressource (xxii, 352 p)
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ill., maps
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010 Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0292797389
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9780292797383
Series Statement:
The Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Note on Orthography and Dates -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Approaches to Maya Political Organization -- Explanation, Analogy, and the Direct-Historical Approach -- Sources for a Direct-Historical Approach: A Critical Review -- Classic Period Hieroglyphic Inscriptions -- Native Texts of the Postclassic and Colonial Periods -- Spanish Colonial Documents -- Dictionaries -- Modern Ethnography -- Maya Cosmology and Worldview -- Chapter 2. Previous Reconstructions of Classic Maya Political Organization -- Early Thoughts -- The Political Geography of the Yucatan Maya -- Twentieth-Century Ethnography -- Site Size and Size-Hierarchy Models -- Inscription-based Models -- The Importance of Emblem Glyphs -- Emblem Glyph-based (and Other) Decentralized Models -- Emblem Glyph-based Centralized Models -- Time and Its Cycles -- Chapter 3. Maya Politico-Religious Calendrics -- Maya Cosmology and Calendrical Science -- Maya Calendars -- Calendrical Origins -- Calendrical Transformations -- The Postclassic Maya May -- The May and Its Seats -- The Books of the Chilam B'alams and Rituals of the May -- Overview -- Chapter 4. Tikal as Early Seat of the May -- Preclassic Ritual Architecture and K'atun Seats -- Early Classic Tikal and Its Rulers -- The Institution of Kingship -- Tikal's Dynastic Founding -- Tikal's Name and Emblem Glyph -- The Dynasty Continues -- The Central Mexican Presence -- Tikal in the Middle Classic Period -- The Meaning of the Middle -- Overview -- Chapter 5. Tikal's Late and Terminal Classic Seating of the May -- Tikal as Late Classic May Ku -- Twin-Pyramid Groups -- Tikal's Late Classic Monuments -- Late Classic Period-ending Monuments in Tikal's Realm -- Interpretations: Tikal's Late Classic May Seating -- Tikal and Its May Realm in the Terminal Classic Period.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-331) and index
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""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""Preface""; ""Note on Orthography and Dates""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chapter 1. Introduction: Approaches to Maya Political Organization""; ""Explanation, Analogy, and the Direct-Historical Approach""; ""Sources for a Direct-Historical Approach: A Critical Review""; ""Classic Period Hieroglyphic Inscriptions""; ""Native Texts of the Postclassic and Colonial Periods""; ""Spanish Colonial Documents""; ""Dictionaries""; ""Modern Ethnography""; ""Maya Cosmology and Worldview""; ""Chapter 2. Previous Reconstructions of Classic Maya Political Organization""
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""Early Thoughts""""The Political Geography of the Yucatan Maya""; ""Twentieth-Century Ethnography""; ""Site Size and Size-Hierarchy Models""; ""Inscription-based Models""; ""The Importance of Emblem Glyphs""; ""Emblem Glyph-based (and Other) Decentralized Models""; ""Emblem Glyph-based Centralized Models""; ""Time and Its Cycles""; ""Chapter 3. Maya Politico-Religious Calendrics""; ""Maya Cosmology and Calendrical Science""; ""Maya Calendars""; ""Calendrical Origins""; ""Calendrical Transformations""; ""The Postclassic Maya May""; ""The May and Its Seats""
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""The Books of the Chilam B'alams and Rituals of the May""""Overview""; ""Chapter 4. Tikal as Early Seat of the May""; ""Preclassic Ritual Architecture and K'atun Seats""; ""Early Classic Tikal and Its Rulers""; ""The Institution of Kingship""; ""Tikal's Dynastic Founding""; ""Tikal's Name and Emblem Glyph""; ""The Dynasty Continues""; ""The Central Mexican Presence""; ""Tikal in the Middle Classic Period""; ""The Meaning of the Middle""; ""Overview""; ""Chapter 5. Tikal's Late and Terminal Classic Seating of the May""; ""Tikal as Late Classic May Ku""; ""Twin-Pyramid Groups""
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""Tikal's Late Classic Monuments""""Late Classic Period-ending Monuments in Tikal's Realm""; ""Interpretations: Tikal's Late Classic May Seating""; ""Tikal and Its May Realm in the Terminal Classic Period""; ""Monuments and Themes""; ""Other Sites in Tikal's Terminal Classic May Realm""; ""Overview""; ""Chapter 6. Other Classic Period May-based Realms""; ""Copán, Honduras, and Quiriguá, Guatemala""; ""Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico""; ""Other Sites and Regions""; ""Caracol, Belize""; ""Palenque and Toniná, Chiapas, Mexico""; ""Dos Pilas, Petén, Guatemala""; ""Overview""
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""Chapter 7. New Terminal Classic May Realms""""The Southern Lowlands""; ""Seibal as May Ku: Structure A-3 Monuments""; ""Lake Petén Itzá""; ""Ucanal""; ""The Northern Lowlands""; ""The Puuc Region""; ""Chich'en Itza, Yucatán""; ""Dzibilchaltún and Cobá""; ""Overview""; ""Chapter 8. Implications of the May Model""; ""Identifying the May""; ""Calendrical Rituals Involving Fire""; ""Burner Rituals""; ""New Year's Ceremonies""; ""Fire Walking""; ""Ballcourts and the Ballgame""; ""Maya "Warfare"""; ""Dual Rulership""; ""Overview""; ""Chapter 9. Conclusion""
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""Origin and Operation of the May System""
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Electronic reproduction
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0292702612
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0292705697
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780292702615
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780292705692
Additional Edition:
Print version Maya political science
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7560/702615
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