Book Description
Recreates Mayan life as it was before the coming of the Spaniards including its history, culture, and achievements
Author : Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen
Publisher :
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 34,19 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Mayas
ISBN :
Recreates Mayan life as it was before the coming of the Spaniards including its history, culture, and achievements
Author : Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen
Publisher : Collins & World
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 30,65 MB
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : 9780529035677
Recreates Mayan life as it was before the coming of the Spaniards including its history, culture, and achievements.
Author : Ruth Gubler
Publisher :
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 31,54 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Matthew G. Looper
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 15,45 MB
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 1477318054
The white-tailed deer had a prominent status in Maya civilization; it was the most important wild-animal food source at many inland Maya sites and also functioned as a major ceremonial symbol. Offering an in-depth semantic analysis of this imagery, The Beast Between considers iconography, hieroglyphic texts, mythological discourses, and ritual narratives to translate the significance and meaning of the vibrant metaphors expressed in a variety of artifacts depicting deer and hunting. Charting the progression of deer as a key component of the Maya diet, especially for elites, to the coupling of deer and maize in the Maya worldview, The Beast Between reveals a close and long-term interdependence. Not only are deer depicted naturalistically in hunting and ritual scenes, but they are also ascribed with human attributes. This rich imagery reflects the many ways in which deer hunting was linked to status, sexuality, and war as part of a deeper process to ensure the regeneration of both agriculture and ancestry. Drawing on methodologies of art history, archaeology, and ethnology, this illuminating work is poised to become a key resource for multiple fields.
Author : Allen R. Ellis
Publisher : Arthur H. Clark Company
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,53 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Includes history of the country, information for the air traveler, for the automobile tourist, and the sportsman, and maps and route guides.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 12,60 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : The Jaguar's Heart
Publisher : BookLocker.com, Inc.
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 2023-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Based on a true story, The Jaguar's Heart brings to life the first encounter of Maya and European in the 16th century. It tells the story of Gonzalo Guerrero, a Spanish sailor shipwrecked on the coast of Yucatan in 1511, between Columbus' discovery of the Americas and Cortez' conquest of Mexico. Maya lords enslave Guerrero and his fellow castaways, but he eventually gains his freedom. Encountering Ix Chan Can, the beautiful younger sister of the Maya lord Nachan Can, Guerrero chooses to remain among her people and win her love. Guerrero earns renown in a war against Nachan Can's enemies, and finally Ix Chan Can's hand. After they have two children, the only other still-living castaway, the clergyman Jeronimo de Aguilar, brings word of Cortez' landing. Guerrero refuses to rejoin his countrymen, cleaving to his family. But with Aguilar as interpreter, Cortez conquers the Aztecs, and the Spaniards inevitably return to impose their rule and religion on the Maya. Nachan Can now demands that Guerrero fight, and at last accepting that he must do so to protect his family, Guerrero tragically stakes his life for his adoptive people against ever-mounting odds. The Jaguar's Heart reveals the struggle of a man caught between cultures and conflicting loyalties at a pivotal moment in the history of the Americas. It is a book with the captivating setting of Gary Jennings' Aztec and its sequels, yet which reveals the humanity of both Spaniard and Indian, and with the compelling theme of W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear's Contact: The Battle for America series.
Author : Lewis Spence
Publisher : New York : AMS Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 40,70 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Antonio Mediz Bolio
Publisher :
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 49,12 MB
Release : 1935
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Wolfgang Gabbert
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 39,19 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816523160
According to Gabbert, class has served as a self-defining category as much as ethnicity in Yucatan, and although we think of caste wars as struggles between Mayas and Mexicans, he shows that each side possessed a sufficiently complex ethnic makeup to rule out such pat observations.".