Memory of Bones Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya

Name: Memory of Bones Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya
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ISBN: 9780292712942

ISBN-10: 0292712944

ISBN-13: 9780292712942

Edition: 2006

Authors: David Stuart, Stephen Houston, Karl Taube

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Description:

Three leading experts on the Maya marshal a vast array of evidence from Mayan iconography and hieroglyphic writing, as well as archaeological findings, to argue that the Maya developed a coherent approach to the human body that we can recover and understand today.

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 6/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 334
Size: 9.00" wide x 11.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.640
Language: English

David Stuart is Associate Director of the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions Project, Peabody Museum, Harvard University & coauthor of "Classic Maya Place Names".



Preamble



The Classic Maya Body



Bodies and Portraits



Ingestion



Senses



Emotions



Dishonor



Words on Wings



Dance, Music, Masking


Epilogue: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya


Bibliography


Index