Megan E O'Neil

Memory in Fragments

The Lives of Ancient Maya Sculptures

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of how the ancient Maya engaged with their history by using, altering, and burying stone sculptures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 282mm x 220mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 1098g
• ISBN-13: 9781477329399
• ISBN-10: 1477329390
• Artikelnr.: 69081133

Autorenporträt

Megan E. O'Neil is an assistant professor of art history at Emory University; the author of Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala and The Maya; and the coauthor of a revised edition of Maya Art and Architecture.

Inhaltsangabe

1. List of Illustrations
2. A Note on Language, Spelling, and Calendar Conventions
3. Preface and Acknowledgments
4. Section I. Shaping the Present and the Past
* Chapter 1. Fragments of and in the Past
* Chapter 2. Multidisciplinary Methodologies and Theoretical Approaches
* Chapter 3. About Time: Engaging Time, History, and Materiality
5. Section II. Breakage and Reuse
* Chapter 4. Violence, Transformation, and Renewal: Material Changes to
Ancient Maya Sculptures
* Chapter 5. Memory and Materiality of Reused, Reset, and Repurposed
Monuments
6. Section III. Burial
* Chapter 6. Ancient Maya Sculptures, Seen and Unseen: Part I, Burial
and Renewal
* Chapter 7. Ancient Maya Sculptures, Seen and Unseen: Part II,
Sculptures Buried in Architecture
7. Conclusion. Lives of Things
8. Notes
9. Works Cited
10. Index