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Mesoamerican writing systems : propaganda, myth, and history in four ancient civilizations / Joyce Marcus.

Title: Mesoamerican writing systems : propaganda, myth, and history in four ancient civilizations / Joyce Marcus.
Author: Marcus, Joyce
Publication: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1992.

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xxii, 495 p. : ill., maps; 25 x 27 cm.

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Contents

Truth, Propaganda, and Noble Speech -- The Evolutionary Context of Early Writing -- Mesoamerica's Four Major Writing Systems: The Ethnohistoric Background -- Not One Calendar, but Many -- Rewriting History -- Place Names and the Establishment of Political Territories -- The Naming of Nobles -- Royal Marriages -- Euhemerism and Royal Ancestors -- Accession to the Throne -- Raiding and Warfare -- An Anthropological Theory of Mesoamerican Writing.

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0691094748 (acid-free paper)

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^^^92009091^//r93

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