Contents
Preface
List of Contributors
Part I. Northern Mesoamerica
Chapter 1. The Politicization of the Mesoamerican Ballgame and Its Implications for the Interpretation of the Distribution of Ballcourts in Central Mexico / Robert S. Santley, Michael J. Berman, and Rani T. Alexander
Chapter 2. Pre-Hispanic Ballcourts from the Valley of Oazaca, Mexico / Stephen A. Kowalewki, Gary M. Feinman, Laura Finsten, and Richard E. Blanton
Chapter 3. And Then They Were Sacrificed: The Ritual Ballgame of Northeastern Mesoamerica Through Time and Space / S. Jeffrey K. Wilkerson
Chapter 4. The Western Mesoamerican Tlachco: A Two-Thousand-Year Perspective / Phil C. Weigand
Chapter 5. The Known Archaeological Ballcourts of Durango and Zacatecas, Mexico / J. Charles Kelley
Chapter 6. The Mesoamerican Ballgame in the American Southwest / David R. Wilcox
Part II. Southern Mesoamerica
Chapter 7. Courting in the Southern Maya Lowlands: A Study in Pre-Hispanic Ballgame Architecture / Vernon L. Scarborough
Chapter 8. Ballcourts of the Northern Maya Lowlands / Edward B. Kurjack, Ruben Maldonado C., and Merle Green Robertson
Chapter 9. "Bois Ton Sang, Beaumanoir": The Political and Conflictual Aspects of the Ballgame in the Northern Chiapas Area / Eric Taladoire and Benoit Colsenet
Chapter 10. The Ballcourts of Sourthern Chiapas, Mexico / Pierre Agrinier
Chapter 11. The Ballgame in the Southern Pacific Coast Cotzumalhuapa Region and Its Impact on Kaminaljuyu During the Middle Classic / Lee A. Parsons
Chapter 12. The Lords of Light Versus the Lords of Dark: The Postclassic Highland Maya Ballgame / John W. Fox
Part III. Iconography and Symbolism
Chapter 13. Ceramic Figurines and the Mesoamerican Ballgame / Susanna M. Ekholm
Chapter 14. Ballgame Imagery of the Maya Lowlands: History and Iconography / Marvin Cohodas
Chapter 15. The Courts of Creation: Ballcourts, Ballgames, and Portals to the Maya Otherworld / Linda Schele and David A. Freidel
Chapter 16. Ballgames and Boundaries / Susan D. Gillespie
Bibliography
Index