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13 produkter
Memory of Bones
Body, Being, and Experience Among the Classic Maya
Av Stephen D. Houston, David Stuart m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
502 kr
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All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But is it possible for us, embodied as we are in a particular time and place, to know how people of long ago thought about the body and its experiences? In this groundbreaking book, …
Veiled Brightness
A History of Ancient Maya Color
Av Stephen D. Houston, Claudia Brittenham m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
699 kr
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Color is an integral part of human experience, so common as to be overlooked or treated as unimportant. Yet color is both unavoidable and varied. Each culture classifies, understands, and uses it in different and often surprising ways, posing particular challenges to those who study color from …
Royal Courts Of The Ancient Maya
Volume 2: Data And Case Studies
Av Takeshi Inomata, Stephen D. Houston
Inbunden, 2019
2512 kr
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This book discusses courts at specific centers and areas, presenting data from major research projects. It examines the beginning of the Copan dynasty and the possibility of its foreign origin. The book addresses the functions and meanings of thrones, referring to archaeological data from Uaxactun.
Royal Courts Of The Ancient Maya
Volume 2: Data And Case Studies
Av Stephen D. Houston, Takeshi Inomata
E-bok, 2018
1264 kr
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This book discusses courts at specific centers and areas, presenting data from major research projects. It examines the beginning of the Copan dynasty and the possibility of its foreign origin. The book addresses the functions and meanings of thrones, referring to archaeological data from Uaxactun.
Royal Courts Of The Ancient Maya
Volume 2: Data And Case Studies
Av Stephen D. Houston, Takeshi Inomata
E-bok, 2018
1264 kr
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This book discusses courts at specific centers and areas, presenting data from major research projects. It examines the beginning of the Copan dynasty and the possibility of its foreign origin. The book addresses the functions and meanings of thrones, referring to archaeological data from Uaxactun.
The Classic Maya
Av Stephen D. Houston, Takeshi Inomata
Inbunden, 2009
1559 kr
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In the first millennium AD, the Classic Maya created courtly societies in and around the Yucatan Peninsula that have left some of the most striking intellectual and aesthetic achievements of the ancient world, including large settlements like Tikal, Copan, and Palenque. This book is the first …
The Classic Maya
Av Stephen D. Houston, Takeshi Inomata
Häftad, 2009
491 kr
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In the first millennium AD, the Classic Maya created courtly societies in and around the Yucatan Peninsula that have left some of the most striking intellectual and aesthetic achievements of the ancient world, including large settlements like Tikal, Copan, and Palenque. This book is the first …
The First Writing
Script Invention as History and Process
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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Ancient writing gives us our first glimpse of history, people and institutions, and yet its origins remain mysterious. This book offers a treatment and examination of the origins of ancient writing. It studies often neglected writing systems, such as those of Mesoamerica. The leading scholars in …
The First Writing
Script Invention as History and Process
Inbunden, 2004
1624 kr
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Ancient writing gives us our first glimpse of history, people and institutions, and yet its origins remain mysterious. This book offers a treatment and examination of the origins of ancient writing. It studies often neglected writing systems, such as those of Mesoamerica. The leading scholars in …
Function and Meaning in Classic Maya Architecture
A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 7th and 8th October 1994
Inbunden, 1998
361 kr
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Adorned Body
Mapping Ancient Maya Dress
Av Nicholas Carter, Stephen D. Houston m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
701 kr
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How we dress our bodies-through clothing, footwear, headgear, jewelry, haircuts, and more-is key to the expression of status and identity. This idea was as true for ancient Maya civilization as it is today, yet few studies have centered on what ancient Maya peoples wore and why. In The Adorned …
Shape of Script
How and Why Writing Systems Change
Av Stephen Houston, Stephen D. Houston
Häftad, 2012
635 kr
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Stephen D. Houston has spent decades studying the nature of writing systems, which “are so very basic as nodes of connection among many aspects of human experience,” such as language, communication, identity, technology, and the recording of memory. “One of the misconceptions about writing is that …
