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| Preface | |
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| Note on Orthography and Dates | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Approaches to Maya Political Organization | |
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| Explanation, Analogy, and the Direct-Historical Approach | |
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| Sources for a Direct-Historical Approach: A Critical Review | |
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| Classic Period Hieroglyphic Inscriptions | |
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| Native Texts of the Postclassic and Colonial Periods | |
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| Spanish Colonial Documents | |
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| Dictionaries | |
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| Modern Ethnography | |
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| Maya Cosmology and Worldview | |
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| Previous Reconstructions of Classic Maya Political Organization | |
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| Early Thoughts | |
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| The Political Geography of the Yucatan Maya | |
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| Twentieth-Century Ethnography | |
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| Site Size and Size-Hierarchy Models | |
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| Inscription-based Models | |
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| The Importance of Emblem Glyphs | |
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| Emblem Glyph-based (and Other) Decentralized Models | |
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| Emblem Glyph-based Centralized Models | |
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| Time and Its Cycles | |
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| Maya Politico-Religious Calendrics | |
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| Maya Cosmology and Calendrical Science | |
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| Maya Calendars | |
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| Calendrical Origins | |
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| Calendrical Transformations | |
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| The Postclassic Maya May | |
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| The May and Its Seats | |
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| The Books of the Chilam B'alams and Rituals of the May | |
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| Overview | |
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| Tikal as Early Seat of the May | |
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| Preclassic Ritual Architecture and K'atun Seats | |
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| Early Classic Tikal and Its Rulers | |
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| The Institution of Kingship | |
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| Tikal's Dynastic Founding | |
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| Tikal's Name and Emblem Glyph | |
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| The Dynasty Continues | |
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| The Central Mexican Presence | |
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| Tikal in the Middle Classic Period | |
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| The Meaning of the Middle | |
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| Overview | |
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| Tikal's Late and Terminal Classic Seating of the May | |
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| Tikal as Late Classic May Ku | |
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| Twin-Pyramid Groups | |
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| Tikal's Late Classic Monuments | |
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| Late Classic Period-ending Monuments in Tikal's Realm | |
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| Interpretations: Tikal's Late Classic May Seating | |
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| Tikal and Its May Realm in the Terminal Classic Period | |
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| Monuments and Themes | |
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| Other Sites in Tikal's Terminal Classic May Realm | |
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| Overview | |
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| Other Classic Period May-based Realms | |
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| Copan, Honduras, and Quirigua, Guatemala | |
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| Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico | |
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| Other Sites and Regions | |
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| Caracol, Belize | |
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| Palenque and Tonina, Chiapas, Mexico | |
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| Dos Pilas, Peten, Guatemala | |
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| Overview | |
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| New Terminal Classic May Realms | |
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| The Southern Lowlands | |
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| Seibal as May Ku: Structure A-3 Monuments | |
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| Lake Peten Itza | |
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| Ucanal | |
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| The Northern Lowlands | |
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| The Puuc Region | |
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| Chich'en Itza, Yucatan | |
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| Dzibilchaltun and Coba | |
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| Overview | |
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| Implications of the May Model | |
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| Identifying the May | |
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| Calendrical Rituals Involving Fire | |
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| Burner Rituals | |
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| New Year's Ceremonies | |
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| Fire Walking | |
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| Ballcourts and the Ballgame | |
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| Maya "Warfare" | |
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| Dual Rulership | |
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| Overview | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Origin and Operation of the May System | |
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| The Classic Maya: A Theocratic State | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |