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Title Maya / edited by Peter Schmidt, Mercedes de la Garza, Enrique Nalda.

Publication Info. New York : Rizzoli, 1998.

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 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  972.81016 M451 1998    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 695 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 31 cm
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Note "First published on the occasion of the exhibition Maya, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 6. IX.1998 - 16.V.1999"--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The rediscovery of a civilization / Mercedes de la Garza -- A brief history of archaeological exploration / Ian Graham -- Vegetation of Maya Region / Arturo omez-Pompa -- Ancient Maya civilization in space and time / Jeremy A. Sabloff -- The Maya and their Olmec neighbors -- Tomás Pérez Suárez -- Maya frontiers / Giuseppe Orefici -- The Maya city / Enrique Nalda -- Maya architecture / Antonio Benavides C. -- Maya daily labors : a history in lower case / Mario Humberto Ruz -- Maya writing / Maricela Ayala Falcón -- Calendrical cycles and astronomy / Victoria R. Bricker, Harvey M. Bricker -- The Maya codices / Thomas A. Lee Whiting -- Maya Cosmogony / Enrique Florescano -- Maya gods / Mercedes de la Garza -- Portable objects / Clemency Chase Coggins -- Classic Maya painted ceramics and the stories they tell / Dorie Reents-Budet -- Sculpture and murals of the Usumacinta Region / Merle Greene Robertson -- The highlands of Guatemala and Chiapas / Zoila Rodríguez Girón, J. Héctor Paredes G. -- Dynastic history and politics of the classic Maya / David Stuart -- Copán : art, science and dynasty / Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle -- Archaeology of the Central Lowland Mayas : Tikal / Héctor L. Escobedo, Juan Antonio Valdés -- The metropolis of Calakmul Campeche / Ramón Carrasco V. -- Jaina : its funerary art / Román Piña Chán -- Uxmal and the Puuc zone : monumental architectural scuppture facades and political power in the terminal classic period / Jeff Karl Kowalski -- Contacts with Central Mexico and the transition to the Postclassic : Chichén Itzá in central Yucatán / Peter J. Schmidt -- Navigation and trade on the eastern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula / Rocía González de la Mata, Anthony P. Andrews -- Political organization of the Yucatán Mayas during the eleventh and sixteenth centuries / Sergio Quezada -- The conquest of the Mayas of Yucatán and Maya Resistance during the Spanish colonial period / Grant D. Jones -- The Mayas in modern times / Jan de Vos.
Summary Looks at Mayan civilization, including Mayan architecture, astronomy, history, mathematics, politics, religion, commerce, navigation, sculpture, and handicrafts.
Subject Mayas -- History -- Exhibitions.
Mayas -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions.
Maya art -- Exhibitions.
Maya architecture -- Exhibitions.
Central America -- Antiquities.
Antiquities. (OCoLC)fst00810745
Maya architecture. (OCoLC)fst01012695
Maya art. (OCoLC)fst01012698
Mayas. (OCoLC)fst01012775
Mayas -- Antiquities. (OCoLC)fst01012778
Central America. (OCoLC)fst01244535
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01424028
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Exhibition catalogs.
Added Author Schmidt, Peter J., editor.
Garza, Mercedes de la, editor.
Nalda, Enrique, editor.
Palazzo Grassi, host institution.
ISBN 0847821293
9780847821297
8845237990
9788845237997

 
    
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