Ruins of the Past: The Use and Perception of Abandoned Structures in the Maya Lowlands
University Press of Colorado, 2008
Cloth: 978-0-87081-888-2 | eISBN: 978-1-60732-003-6
Library of Congress Classification F1435.3.A6R85 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 972.81016
Cloth: 978-0-87081-888-2 | eISBN: 978-1-60732-003-6
Library of Congress Classification F1435.3.A6R85 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 972.81016
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
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