Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

Ruins of the Past

The Use and Perception of Abandoned Structures in the Maya Lowlands

Av Travis W. Stanton, Aline Magnoni

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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 later Maya peoples perceived, used, and sometimes ritually destroyed ruins of structures built by ancestors.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2008-03-30
Mått: 152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt: 674 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 384
Förlag: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 9780870818882

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Travis W. Stanton is an associate professor in the Anthropology Department at the Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico. Aline Magnoni is a Ph.D. candidate in the Anthropology Department at Tulane University.

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"All human societies are built on the stones and ashes of those that came before them, and all people construct their ideas of lived-space in relationship to that past... The editors grasp this concept and have brought together a remarkable group to discuss the ways in which architecture is used and re-used over time, and to speculate on how the re-users perceived the monuments of their past." -- Keith Prufer, Wichita State University. "The various authors present rich case studies that demonstrate ancient Maya people deliberately killed certain structures, re-used only select structures, and performed ceremonies of remembering and forgetting... A compelling body of work that will make a significant impact." -- Traci Ardren, University of Miami.

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