Format:
Online-Ressource (284 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781107002340
Content:
Examines how images, texts and architectural form controlled movement of people through the various precincts in Classic Maya cities
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Space and Sculpture in the Classic Maya City; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of tables; Summary; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; Region and Cultural Background; 1: Defining the Maya built environment; 1.1. Architecture, space, and cognition; 1.2. Classic Maya architecture and spatial planning; 1.2.1. Topography and architecture; 1.2.2. Building materials and construction techniques; 1.2.3. Regional variations in Maya architecture; 1.2.4. Sociological and cosmological influences on site plans; 1.3. Common forms in Maya architecture; 1.3.1. Palaces
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1.3.2. Temple pyramids and shrines1.3.3. Ballcourts; 1.3.4. Courtyards and plazas; 1.3.5. Causeways; 1.4. Classic Maya social structure; 1.4.1. Status and epigraphic evidence; 1.4.2. Status and iconographic evidence; 1.4.3. Status and archaeological evidence; 1.5. Text, image, and literacy among the Classic Maya; 1.6. Text-image ratios and monumental art; 2: Investigative considerations and methodology; 2.1. Public versus private space, public versus private art; 2.2. Criteria for appropriate comparisons in Maya art and architecture; 2.2.1. Temple Group; 2.2.2. Palace Group
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2.2.3. Acropolis Group2.2.4. Quadrangle Group; 2.3. Temporal controls; 2.4. Investigative procedures; 2.4.1. Access maps and access analysis; 2.4.2. Principals of convexity; 2.4.3. Justified access maps; 2.4.4. Principals of distributedness-nondistributedness and symmetry-asymmetry; 2.4.5. Measuring control values and RA analysis; Calculating CVs; 2.4.6. Reductionist-comparative and thematic-analytical analysis of Maya art; 2.4.7. Some categories for thematic analytical investigation; Captive display; Human sacrifice and auto sacrifice; Ritual dance; Royal audience
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2.5. Description of primary data sources2.5.1. Architectural sculpture; Façades; Friezes; Roofcombs; Murals; Piers and Doorjambs; Lintels; Panels and tablets; Staircases; 2.5.2. Furniture; Thrones and benches; 3: Access analysis of the Palenque Cross Group and its sculpture; 3.1. The Cross Group general description; 3.1.1. Temple of the Cross; Temple of the Cross sculpture; 3.1.2. Temple of the Sun; Temple of the Sun sculpture; 3.1.3. Temple of the Foliated Cross; Temple of the Foliated Cross sculpture; 3.2. Access analysis and the Cross Group temples
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3.3. Public and private sculpture of the Cross Group3.4. Control values and relative asymmetry analysis of the Cross Group; 3.5. Text-image ratios and the Cross Group; 4: Architectural and sculptural programs of the Palenque Palace Group; 4.1. Palenque Palace: General description; 4.2. Evolutionary sequence of the Palace; 4.3. The Palace at Palenque, Phases 1-6; 4.3.1. The buildings of the Palace Phase 1; The northern and southern subterranean galleries and passages; House E: Description and sculpture; House B: Description and sculpture; House J: Description; House K: Description
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4.3.2. The buildings of the Palace Phase 2
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781139137805
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107002340
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Space and Sculpture in the Classic Maya City
Language:
English
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