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19 produkter
Maya
Av Michael D. Coe, Stephen Houston
Häftad, 2022
322 kr
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The definitive history of the Maya, fully updated with the latest archaeological studies. The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction to the ancient Maya on the market today. This classic book has been updated by distilling the latest scholarship for the general …
Vital Signs
The Visual Culture of Maya Writing
Inbunden, 2026
601 kr
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How scribes of the ancient Maya pictured sound and meaning through inventive hieroglyphic writing that pulsed with vitality and witFor two millennia, the ancestral Maya of Mexico and Central America created a rich legacy of image and text. Vital Signs explains how this graphic system worked, …
Vital Signs
The Visual Culture of Maya Writing
E-bok, 2026
852 kr
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How scribes of the ancient Maya pictured sound and meaning through inventive hieroglyphic writing that pulsed with vitality and witFor two millennia, the ancestral Maya of Mexico and Central America created a rich legacy of image and text. Vital Signs explains how this graphic system worked, …
Vital Signs
The Visual Culture of Maya Writing
E-bok, 2026
852 kr
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How scribes of the ancient Maya pictured sound and meaning through inventive hieroglyphic writing that pulsed with vitality and witFor two millennia, the ancestral Maya of Mexico and Central America created a rich legacy of image and text. Vital Signs explains how this graphic system worked, …
Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing
Av Stephen Houston, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
768 kr
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The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing is an important story of intellectual discovery and a tale of code breaking comparable to the interpreting of Egyptian hieroglyphs and the decoding of cuneiform. Using classic articles taken from publications unavailable to most readers, accounts by …
Royal Courts Of The Ancient Maya
Volume 1: Theory, Comparison, And Synthesis
Av Stephen Houston, Takeshi Inomata
Häftad, 2000
972 kr
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The two volumes of Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya provide current archaeological perspectives on Maya courts conceived as vital, functioning social groups composed of lords, courtiers, scribes, priests, and entertainers, among many others. In addition to archaeological data on the architecture …
Royal Courts Of The Ancient Maya
Volume 2: Data And Case Studies
Av Stephen Houston, Takeshi Inomata
Häftad, 2001
1108 kr
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The two volumes of Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya provide current archaeological perspectives on Maya courts conceived as vital, functioning social groups composed of lords, courtiers, scribes, priests, and entertainers, among many others. In addition to archaeological data on the architecture …
The Hidden Language of Graphic Signs
Cryptic Writing and Meaningful Marks
Av John Bodel, Stephen Houston
Inbunden, 2021
1420 kr
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A common belief is that systems of writing are committed to transparency and precise records of sound. The target is the language behind such marks. Readers, not viewers, matter most, and the most effective graphs largely record sound, not meaning. But what if embellishments mattered deeply - if …
Hidden Language of Graphic Signs
Cryptic Writing and Meaningful Marks
Av Stephen Houston, John Bodel
E-bok, 2021
1662 kr
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A common belief is that systems of writing are committed to transparency and precise records of sound. The target is the language behind such marks. Readers, not viewers, matter most, and the most effective graphs largely record sound, not meaning. But what if embellishments mattered deeply - if …
Hidden Language of Graphic Signs
Cryptic Writing and Meaningful Marks
Av Stephen Houston, John Bodel
E-bok, 2021
1662 kr
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A common belief is that systems of writing are committed to transparency and precise records of sound. The target is the language behind such marks. Readers, not viewers, matter most, and the most effective graphs largely record sound, not meaning. But what if embellishments mattered deeply - if …
Maya Universe in Stone
Av Stephen Houston, Stephen Houston
Inbunden, 2021
465 kr
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In 1950, Dana Lamb, an explorer of some notoriety, stumbled on a Maya ruin in the tropical forests of northern Guatemala. Lamb failed to record the location of the site he called Laxtunich, turning his find into the mystery at the center of this book. The lintels he discovered there, long since …
Inconstant Landscape
The Maya Kingdom of El Zotz, Guatemala
Av Thomas G. Garrison, Stephen Houston
Häftad, 2020
669 kr
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Presenting the results of six years of archaeological survey and excavation in and around the Maya kingdom of El Zotz, An Inconstant Landscape paints a complex picture of a dynamic landscape over the course of almost 2,000 years of occupation. El Zotz was a dynastic seat of the Classic period in …
Re-Presenting the Past
Archaeology through Text and Image
Av Sheila Bonde, Stephen Houston
E-bok, 2021
125 kr
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The archaeological past exists for us through intermediaries. Some are written works, descriptions, narratives and field notes, while others are visual: the drawings, paintings, photographs, powerpoints or computer visualizations that allow us to re-present past forms of human existence. This …
Disappearance of Writing Systems
Perspectives on Literacy and Communication
Av John Baines, John Bennet m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1526 kr
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This volume gathers papers from the first conference ever to be held on the disappearance of writing systems, in Oxford in March 2004. While the invention and decipherment of writing systems have long been focuses of research, their eclipse or replacement have been little studied. Because writing …
Disappearance of Writing Systems
Perspectives on Literacy and Communication
Av John Baines, John Bennet m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
422 kr
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This volume gathers papers from the first conference ever to be held on the disappearance of writing systems, in Oxford in March 2004. While the invention and decipherment of writing systems have long been focuses of research, their eclipse or replacement have been little studied. Because writing …
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 …
Fiery Pool
The Maya and the Mythic Sea
Av Daniel Finamore, Stephen Houston
Inbunden, 2010
799 kr
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A revolutionary new interpretation of ancient Maya art and cultureMaya art and hieroglyphs constitute one of the world’s most fascinating, visually striking, and complex systems of expression. Most scholarly interpretations of Maya art and culture have emphasized that this ancient civilization was …
Life Within
Classic Maya and the Matter of Permanence
Inbunden, 2014
588 kr
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For the Classic Maya, who flourished in and around the Yucatan peninsula in the first millennium AD, artistic materials were endowed with an internal life. Far from being inert substances, jade, flint, obsidian, and wood held a vital essence, agency, and even personality. To work with these …
Gifted Passage
Young Men in Classic Maya Art and Text
Inbunden, 2018
678 kr
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In this thought-provoking book, preeminent scholar Stephen Houston turns his attention to the crucial role of young males in Classic Maya society, drawing on evidence from art, writing, and material culture. The Gifted Passage establishes that adolescent men in Maya art were the subjects and makers …
