The Maya World

Herausgeber: Hutson, Scott R.; Ardren, Traci

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Maya World brings together over sixty authors, representing the fields of archaeology, art history, epigraphy, geography, and ethnography, who explore cutting edge research on every major facet of the ancient Maya and all sub-regions within the Maya world.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Worlds
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 920
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 174mm x 249mm x 51mm
• Gewicht: 1600g
• ISBN-13: 9781032336169
• ISBN-10: 1032336161
• Artikelnr.: 68431369

Autorenporträt

Scott R. Hutson teaches at the University of Kentucky, USA. He has written the books The Ancient Urban Maya (2016) and Dwelling, Identity, and the Maya (2010). He also edited Ancient Maya Commerce: Multi-disciplinary Research at Chunchucmil (2017) and co-wrote (with Ian Hodder) the third edition of Reading the Past (2003). He has been doing fieldwork in the Maya Lowlands, usually focusing on household archaeology, settlement patterns, and ritual practice, since 1996. Traci Ardren is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Miami, USA. She is an anthropological archaeologist interested in issues of identity and other forms of symbolic representation in the archaeological record. Traci is co-director of the Proyecto Sacbe Yaxuna-Coba, at the Classic Maya site of Yaxuna, in Yucatan, Mexico where she investigates the ways ancient road systems allowed for the flow of information and ideas as well as how culinary tourism and modern foodways intersect. As Consulting Curator for Mesoamerican Art, Traci curated a number of exhibits of ancient New World art at the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I: Beginnings
Introduction to Beginnings
Chapter 2: Archaic Maya Matters
Chapter 3: Public Architecture and the Rise of Complexity in the Middle Preclassic
Chapter 4: The Southern Maya Lowlands in the Late Preclassic
Chapter 5: The Late Preclassic Pacific Slope
Chapter 6: The Maya Highlands and the Late Preclassic: Kaminaljuyu as a Case Study
Part II: Bodies
Introduction to Bodies
Chapter 7: Maya Bioarchaeology
Chapter 8: Graves, Dead Bodies, Souls, and Ancestors
Chapter 9: Gender and Sexuality
Chapter 10: Human-Animal Relations in the Maya World
Chapter 11: Favored Plants of the Maya
Chapter 12: Migration and Mobility in the Eastern Maya Lowlands
Part III: Landscapes
Introduction to Landscapes
Chapter 13 Paleoecology, Soil, and Water in Maya History
Chapter 14 Settlement Patterns
Chapter 15 Ancient Maya Ports, Port Facilities, and Navigation
Chapter 16 Cave Use Among the Ancient Maya
Chapter 17 Ancient Maya Rurality: Old Assumptions, Current Research and New Directions
Chapter 18 Lakamha: the place of "Big Waters": The archaeology of the ancient city of Palenque, Mexico
Chapter 19 The Maya City of Caracol, Belize: The Integration of an Anthropogenic Landscape
Chapter 20: Ek' Balam: A Maya City In The Urban Landscape of Yucatan
Part IV: Relations
Introduction to Relations
Chapter 21 Household Archaeology of the Classic Period Lowland Maya
Chapter 22 Inequality and social groups
Chapter 23 Maya Relations with the Material World
Chapter 24 Maya Commerce
Chapter 25 Classic Maya Geopolitics
Chapter 26 The Politics of Conflict: War before and beyond the State in Maya Society
Part V: Production
Introduction to Production
Chapter 27: Ancient Maya Agriculture
Chapter 28: The Maya Forest: A Domesticated Landscape
Chapter 29: The Complexity of Ancient Maya Craft Production
Chapter 30: Animating Materials: The Sculpted Forms of the Ancient Maya World
Chapter 31: Maya Mural Painting
Chapter 32: Recent Developments in Maya Epigraphic Research
Chapter 33: Maya Time
Chapter 34: Maya Rites, Rituals, and Ceremonies
Part VI: Interactions
Introduction to Interactions
Chapter 35: Olmecs and Other Western Neighbors
Chapter 36: Interactions between Ancient Teotihuacan and the Maya World
Chapter 37: Southeast Mesoamerica
Chapter 38: Classic and Postclassic Peoples of the Pacific Coast
Chapter 39: The Northern Maya Tollans
Part VII: Resilience, Legacies, and Transformations
Introduction to Resilience, Legacies, and Transformations
Chapter 40: Collapse, Transformation, Reorganization: The Terminal Classic Transition in the Maya World
Chapter 41: The Structures of Everyday Life in the Postclassic Urban Setting of Mayapan
Chapter 42: Colonial Entanglements at Tahcabo, Yucatán
Chapter 43: The Archaeology of Henequen Haciendas: San Pedro Cholul as a Case Study
Chapter 44: Lacandon Maya Culture: Continuity and Change