In the Realm of Nachan Kan

Marilyn a Masson

• Paperback | Engels | Mesoamerican Worlds
• The prevailing view of the lowland Maya during the Postclassic period (A.D. 1050-1500) has been one of an impoverished, "degenerated" society devoid o... Lees meer

Ancient Tollan

Alba Guadalupe Mastache

• Paperback | Engels | Mesoamerican Worlds
• A work of both consensus and innovation based upon extensive archaeological research, Ancient Tollan: Tula and the Toltec Heartland studies Mesoameric... Lees meer

Maya Daykeeping

• Paperback | Engels | Mesoamerican Worlds
• In Maya Daykeeping , three divinatory calendars from highland Guatemala - examples of a Mayan literary tradition that includes the Popul Vuh, Annals o... Lees meer

Conquered Conquistadors

Florine Asselbergs

• Paperback | Engels | Mesoamerican Worlds
• In Conquered Conquistadors , Florine Asselbergs reveals that a large pictorial map, the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan , long thought to represent a series... Lees meer

Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage

• Paperback | Engels | Mesoamerican Worlds
• For more than a millennium the great Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan (c. 150 B.C.E. - 750 C.E.) has been imagined and reimagined by a host of subsequ... Lees meer

Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God

Guilhem Olivier

• Paperback | Engels | Mesoamerican Worlds
• Guilhem Olivier's Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God is a masterful study of Tezcatlipoca, one of the greatest but least understood deities i... Lees meer

Sweeping the Way

Catherine Dicesare

• Paperback | Engels | Mesoamerican Worlds
• Many disasters originate from a force of nature, such as an earthquake, cyclone, tsunami, volcanic eruption, drought, or flood. But that is only half ... Lees meer

Commoner Ritual and Ideology in Ancient Mesoamerica

• Paperback | Engels | Mesoamerican Worlds
• This volume explores the ritual life of Mesoamerica's common citizens, inside and outside of the domestic sphere, from Formative through Postclassic p... Lees meer

The Lords of Lambityeco

Michael Lind, Javier Urcid

• Hardcover | Engels | Mesoamerican Worlds
• The Valley of Oaxaca was unified under the rule of Monte Albán until its collapse around AD 800. Using findings from John Paddock's long-term excavati... Lees meer

Stone Houses and Earth Lords

• Paperback | Engels | Mesoamerican Worlds
• Cave archaeology in the New World, now a focus of intense research, was still a peripheral area of inquiry just fifteen years ago. Stone Houses and Ea... Lees meer

The Kowoj

• Paperback | Engels | Mesoamerican Worlds
• Neighbors of the better-known Itza in the central Petén lakes region of Guatemala, the Kowoj Maya have been studied for little more than a decade. The... Lees meer

Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution in a Maya Community

Dean E Arnold

• Hardcover | Engels | Mesoamerican Worlds
• How and why do ceramics and their production change through time? Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution in a Maya Com... Lees meer

Encounter with the Plumed Serpent

Maarten Jansen, Gabina Aurora Perez Jimenez

• Hardcover | Engels | Mesoamerican Worlds
• The Mixtec, or the people of Nuu Savi ('Nation of the Rain God'), one of the major civilizations of ancient Mesoamerica, made their home in the highla... Lees meer

Sweeping the Way

Catherine Dicesare

• Hardcover | Engels | Mesoamerican Worlds
• Incorporating human sacrifice, flaying, and mock warfare, the pre-Columbian Mexican ceremony known as Ochpaniztli, or "Sweeping," has long attracted a... Lees meer

The Kowoj

• Hardcover | Engels | Mesoamerican Worlds
• Neighbors of the better-known Itza in the central Petén lakes region of Guatemala, the Kowoj Maya have been studied for little more than a decade. The... Lees meer

Maya Worldviews at Conquest

• Hardcover | Engels | Mesoamerican Worlds
• Maya Worldviews at Conquest examines Maya culture and social life just prior to contact and the effect the subsequent Spanish conquest, as well as con... Lees meer

The Apotheosis of Janaab' Pakal

Gerardo Aldana

• Paperback | Engels | Mesoamerican Worlds
• The Apotheosis of Janaab' Pakal takes up anew the riddles within a number of Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions first recognized by Floyd Lounsbury. Gerar... Lees meer

Mexico's Indigenous Communities

Ethelia Ruiz Medrano

• Paperback | Engels | Mesoamerican Worlds
• A rich and detailed account of indigenous history in central and southern Mexico from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, Mexico's Indigenous... Lees meer

Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl

H B Nicholson

• Paperback | Engels | Mesoamerican Worlds
• Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl: The Once and Future Lord of the Toltecs is the most comprehensive survey and discussion of primary documentary sources and rel... Lees meer

The Social Experience of Childhood in Ancient Mesoamerica

• Hardcover | Engels | Mesoamerican Worlds
• The first book to focus on children in ancient Mesoamerica, this vital reference offers a key methodological guide for archaeologists studying childre... Lees meer

Representing Aztec Ritual

• Hardcover | Engels | Mesoamerican Worlds
• Arriving in Mexico less than a decade after the Spanish conquest of 1521, the Franciscan missionary Bernardino de Sahagun not only labored to supplant... Lees meer

Rabinal Achi

• Paperback | Engels | Mesoamerican Worlds
• The Rabinal Achi, one of the most remarkable works of Mayan literature, dates back to the 1400s. In 2005, UNESCO declared Rabinal Achi to be a Masterp... Lees meer

In the Realm of Nachan Kan

Marilyn a Masson

• Hardcover | Engels | Mesoamerican Worlds
• The prevailing view of the lowland Maya during the Postclassic period (A.D. 1050-1500) has been one of an impoverished, "degenerated" society devoid o... Lees meer

Mesoamerican Ritual Economy

• Hardcover | Engels | Mesoamerican Worlds
• In "Mesoamerican Ritual Economy, " scholars examine the extent to which economic processes were driven by and integrated with religious ritual in anci... Lees meer