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The Maya / edited by Peter Schmidt, Mercedes de la Garza, Enrique Nalda.

Title
The Maya / edited by Peter Schmidt, Mercedes de la Garza, Enrique Nalda.
Publication
New York, N.Y. : Rizzoli : [Distributed by St. Martin's Press], 1998.

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Additional Authors
  • Schmidt, Peter J.
  • Garza, Mercedes de la.
  • Nalda, Enrique
  • Palazzo Grassi.
Description
695 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps; 31 cm.
Summary
Looks at Mayan civilization, including Mayan architecture, astronomy, history, mathematics, politics, religion, commerce, navigation, sculpture, and handicrafts.
Subject
  • Mayas > Exhibitions
  • Mexico > Antiquities > Exhibitions
  • Central America > Antiquities > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
  • v – Exhibition catalogs.
  • exhibition catalogs.
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • History
  • Catalogues d'exposition.
Note
  • "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Maya, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 6.IX.1998-16.V.1999"--P. facing t.p.
  • Distributor from dust jacket.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • The rediscovery of a civilization / Mercedes de la Garza -- A brief history of archaeological exploration / Ian Graham -- Vegetation of the Maya region / Arturo Gómez-Pompa -- Ancient Maya civilization in space and time / Jeremy A. Sabloff -- The Maya and their Olmec neighbors / Tomás Pérez Suárez -- Maya frontiers / Giuseppe Orefici -- The Maya city / Enrique Nalda -- Maya architecture / Antonio Benavides C. -- Maya daily labors / Mario Humberto Ruz -- Maya writing / Maricela Ayala Falcón -- Calendrical cycles and astronomy / Victoria R. Bricker, Harvey M. Bricker -- The Maya codices / Thomas A. Lee Whiting.
  • Maya cosmogony / Enrique Florescano -- Maya gods / Mercedes de la Garza -- Portable objects / Clemency Chase Coggins -- Classic Maya painted ceramics and the stories they tell / Dorie Reents-Budet -- Sculpture and murals of the Usumacinta region / Merle Greene Robertson -- The highlands of Guatemala and Chiapas / Zoila Rodríguez Girón, J. Héctor Paredes G. -- Dynastic history and politics of the classic Maya / David Stuart -- Copán / Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle -- Archaeology of the Central Lowland Mayas / Héctor L. Escobedo, Juan Antonio Valdés -- The metropolis of Calakmul, Campeche / Ramón Carrasco V.
  • Jaina / Román Piña Chán -- Uxmal and the Puuc zone / Jeff Karl Kowalski -- Contacts with central Mexico and the transition to the Postclassic / Peter J. Schmidt -- Navigation and trade on the eastern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula / Rocío González de la Mata, Anthony P. Andrews -- Political organization of the Yucatán / Sergio Quezada -- The conquest of the Mayas of Yucatán and Maya resistance during the Spanish Colonial period / Grant D. Jones -- The Mayas in modern times / Jan de Vos.
ISBN
0847821293
LCCN
^^^98067556^
OCLC
  • 40491267
  • SCSB-10459072
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library