Stephen D. Houston, David Stuart, Karl Taube

The Memory of Bones

Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Three leading experts offer a new, standard-setting interpretation of how the Classic Maya experienced and thought about the human body.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 216mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 832g
• ISBN-13: 9780292713192
• ISBN-10: 0292713193
• Artikelnr.: 33156434

Autorenporträt

Stephen Houston is Professor of Anthropology at Brown University. David Stuart is the Linda and David Schele Professor of Mesoamerican Art and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. Karl Taube is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside.

Inhaltsangabe

Preamble
Chapter 1. The Classic Maya Body
Chapter 2. Bodies and Portraits
Chapter 3. Ingestion
Chapter 4. Senses
Chapter 5. Emotions
Chapter 6. Dishonor
Chapter 7. Words on Wings
Chapter 8. Dance, Music, Masking
Epilogue: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya
Bibliography
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