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- Ruins of the Past: The Use and Perception of Abandoned Structures in the Maya Lowlands
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: University Press of Colorado
- Series: Mesoamerican Worlds Series
summary
From the Preclassic to the present, Maya peoples have continuously built, altered, abandoned, and re-used structures, imbuing them with new meanings at each transformation. Ruins of the Past is the first volume to focus on how previously built structures in the Maya Lowlands were used and perceived by later peoples, exploring the topic through concepts of landscape, place, and memory. The collection, as Wendy Ashmore points out in her foreword, offers "a stimulating, productive, and fresh set of inferences about ancient Maya cognition of their own past." Contributors include Anthony P. Andrews, Ana Lucía Arroyave Prera, Antonio Benavides C., M. Kathryn Brown, Marcello A. Canuto, Mark B. Child, David A. Freidel, James F. Garber, Charles W. Golden, Stanley P. Guenter, Jon B. Hageman, Richard D. Hansen, Brett A. Houk, Wayne K. Howell, Paul Hughbanks, Scott R. Hutson, Aline Magnoni, T. Kam Manahan, Olivia C. Navarro Farr, Travis W. Stanton, Lauren A. Sullivan, and Fred Valdez Jr.
Table of Contents
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- Note on Use of Accents
- pp. xvii-xviii
- 7: Anatomy of a Post-Collapse Society
- pp. 171-192
- References Cited
- pp. 281-351
- Contributors
- pp. 353-359
Additional Information
ISBN
9781607320036
Related ISBN(s)
9780870818882
MARC Record
OCLC
608499913
Pages
384
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No