Maya political science :time, astronomy, and the cosmos

• 作者: Rice, Prudence M.,
• 出版: Austin : University of Texas Press 2004.
• 版本: 1st ed.
• 稽核項: 1 online resource (xxii, 352 pages) :illustrations, maps.
• 叢書名: The Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies
• 標題: Politique et gouvernement. , Mayas , Archaeology. , Mexique , Political ProcessGeneral. , History. , Guatemala , Mayas Histoire. , Mayas History. , SOCIAL SCIENCE Archaeology. , Mayas Antiquities. , Mexico. , Histoire. , Antiquities. , Mayas. , Politics and government. , Guatemala. , POLITICAL SCIENCE , Electronic books. , Antiquités. , POLITICAL SCIENCE Political Process -- General. , SOCIAL SCIENCE , Guatemala Antiquities. , Mexico , Mexico Antiquities. , Guatemala Antiquités. , Mexique Antiquités. , Mayas Antiquités. , Mayas Politics and government. , Mayas Politique et gouvernement.
• ISBN: 0292797389 , 9780292797383
• ISBN: 0292702612 , 9780292702615 , 0292705697 , 9780292705692
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• 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-331) and index. 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Origin and Operation of the May System -- The Classic Maya: A Theocratic State -- Bibliography -- Index.
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