Ruins of the Past

Travis W. Stanton is an associate professor in the Anthropology Department at the Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico. Aline Magnoni is a Ph.D. candidate in the Anthropology Department at Tulane University.

"All human societies are built on the stones and ashes of those that came before them, and all people construct their ideas of lived-space in relationship to that past... The editors grasp this concept and have brought together a remarkable group to discuss the ways in which architecture is used and re-used over time, and to speculate on how the re-users perceived the monuments of their past." -- Keith Prufer, Wichita State University. "The various authors present rich case studies that demonstrate ancient Maya people deliberately killed certain structures, re-used only select structures, and performed ceremonies of remembering and forgetting... A compelling body of work that will make a significant impact." -- Traci Ardren, University of Miami.

• ; Contents List of Figures Foreword'Wendy Ashmore Note on Use of Accents Chapter 1: Places of Remembrance: The Use and Perception of Abandoned Structures in the Maya Lowlands'Travis W. Stanton and Aline Magnoni Chapter 2: Forgotten Structures, Haunted Houses, and Occupied Hearts: Ancient Perspectives and Contemporary Interpretations of Abandoned Sites and Buildings in the Mirador Basin, Guatemala'Richard D. Hansen, Wayne K. Howell, and Stanley P. Guenter Chapter 3: The Transformation of Abandoned Architecture at Piedras Negras'Mark B. Child and Charles W. Golden Chapter 4: Structure Abandonment and Landscape Transformation: Examples from the Three Rivers Region'Lauren A. Sullivan, Jon B. Hageman, Brett A. Houk, Paul Hughbanks, and Fred Valdez Jr. Chapter 5: Manipulating Memory in the Wake of Dynastic Decline at El Peru-Waka': Termination Deposits at Abandoned Structure M13-1'Olivia C. Navarro Farr, David A. Freidel, and Ana Lucia Arroyave Prera Chapter 6: Establishing and Reusing Sacred Place: A Diachronic Perspective from Blackman Eddy, Belize'M. Kathryn Brown and James F. Garber Chapter 7: Anatomy of a Post-Collapse Society: Identity and Interaction in Early Postclassic Cop n'T. Kam Manahan Chapter 8: Landscape Transformations and Changing Perceptions at Chunchucmil, Yucat n'Aline Magnoni, Scott R. Hutson, and Travis W. Stanton Chapter 9: Edzn : A Lived Place through Time'Antonio Benavides C. Chapter 10: Memories, Meanings, and Historical Awareness: Post-Abandonment Behaviors among the Lowland Maya'Marcello A. Canuto and Anthony P. Andrews Afterword'Denise Fay Brown References Cited Author Biographies Index;