Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World

Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World

Author: Lynn V. Foster

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780195183634

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This comprehensive and accessible reference explores the greatest and most mysterious of civilizations, hailed for its contributions to science, mathematics, and technology. Each chapter is supplemented by an extensive bibliography as well as photos, original line drawings, and maps.


Everyday Life in the Classic Maya World

Everyday Life in the Classic Maya World

Author: Traci Ardren

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-06-22

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1009360906

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Everyday Life in the Classic Maya World introduces readers to a range of people who lived during the Classic period (200–800 CE) of Maya civilization. Traci Ardren here reconstructs the individual experiences of Maya people across all social arenas and experiences, including less-studied populations, such as elders, children, and non-gender binary people. Putting people, rather than objects, at the heart of her narrative, she examines the daily activities of a small rural household of farmers and artists, hunting and bee-keeping rituals, and the bustling activities of the urban marketplace. Ardren bases her study on up-to-date and diverse sources and approaches, including archaeology, art history, epigraphy, and ethnography. Her volume reveals the stories of ancient Maya people and also shows the relevance of those stories today. Written in an engaging style, Everyday Life in the Classic Maya World offers readers at all levels a view into the amazing accomplishments of a culture that continues to fascinate.


Daily Life in Maya Civilization

Daily Life in Maya Civilization

Author: Robert J. Sharer

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 1996-09-09

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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. For ease of use by students, the work is organized into chapters covering all aspects of Maya life and civilization: the foundations of Maya life and civilization; early, middle, and late Maya civilization; economy (food production and trade); social and political systems; writing and calendars; life cycle events; arts and crafts; and religion.


Everyday Life of the Maya

Everyday Life of the Maya

Author: Ralph Whitlock

Publisher:

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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Describes the highly developed Mayan civilization noted for its achievements in architecture, mathematics, and astrology.


Everyday Life in the Maya Civilization

Everyday Life in the Maya Civilization

Author: Kirsten Holm

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2012-01-15

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 1448862175

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Reveals everyday life among the Maya through an account in graphic novel format of ordinary days and a new year's celebration for a prosperous family living in Copâan in what is now Honduras.


The Ancient Maya

The Ancient Maya

Author: Jennifer Fretland VanVoorst

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 0756545641

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Describes the Ancient Mayan civilization, including their religious views, intellectual achievements, and everyday life.


Everyday Life Matters

Everyday Life Matters

Author: Cynthia Robin

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Published: 2013-10-29

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0813048567

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While the study of ancient civilizations has often focused on holy temples and royal tombs, a substantial part of the archaeological record remains hidden in the understudied day-to-day lives of artisans, farmers, hunters, and other ordinary people of the ancient world. The various chores of a person's daily life can be quite extraordinary and, even though they may seem trivial, such activities can have a powerful effect on society as a whole. Everyday Life Matters develops general methods and theories for studying everyday life applicable in archaeology, anthropology, and a wide range of disciplines. In this groundbreaking work, Cynthia Robin examines the 2,000-year history (800 B.C.-A.D. 1200) of the ancient farming community of Chan in Belize, explaining why the average person should matter to archaeologists studying larger societal patterns. Robin argues that the impact of what is commonly perceived as habitual or quotidian can be substantial, and a study of a polity without regard to the citizenry is woefully incomplete. She also develops general methods and theories for studying everyday life applicable across a wide range of disciplines. Refocusing attention from the Maya elite and offering critical analysis of daily life interwoven with larger anthropological theories, Robin engages us to consider the larger implications of the seemingly mundane and to rethink the constitution of human societies, everyday life, and ordinary people.


Ancient Maya Daily Life

Ancient Maya Daily Life

Author: Heather Moore Niver

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2016-07-16

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 1499419651

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What was life like in the days of the ancient Maya civilization? Where did people live and what did they do each day? These questions and more are answered in this fact-filled book about the daily life of the ancient Maya. Engaging text and primary sources shed light on the many mysteries of the Maya people. Color photographs of existing architecture and artifacts, as well as artwork, will transport readers back to the days when the Maya civilization was thriving. This exciting book is rich with information about Maya culture, and it’s sure to stoke readers’ imaginations while giving them a deep understanding of the history of this ancient civilization.


The Life Within

The Life Within

Author: Stephen Houston

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2014-03-25

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0300196024

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Beautifully written and illustrated, The Life Within is the first full study of the vitality and materiality of Classic Maya art and writing and the quest for transcendence and immortality.