The Maya
A Very Short Introduction
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9780190645021
Publication date:
07/07/2021
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ISBN:
9780190645021
Publication date:
07/07/2021
Paperback
Matthew Restall, Amara Solari
A rare packaging of all Maya history from origins to the present,Takes a multidisciplinary approach to study of the Maya people, including literature, religion, and archaeology,Expands traditional periodization of Mayan history to explore more historical nuance
Rights: OUP USA (INDIAN TERRITORY)
Matthew Restall, Amara Solari
Description
The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas — and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya communities built spectacular cities with large, well-fed large populations. They mastered the visual arts, and developed a sophisticated writing system that recorded extraordinary knowledge in calendrics, mathematics, and astronomy. The Maya achieved all this without area-wide centralized control. There was never a single, unified Maya state or empire, but always numerous, evolving ethnic groups speaking dozens of distinct Mayan languages. The people we call "Maya" never thought of themselves as such; yet
something definable, unique, and endlessly fascinating - what we call Maya culture - has clearly existed for millennia. So what was their self-identity and how did Maya civilization come to be "invented?"
With the Maya historically subdivided and misunderstood in so many ways, the pursuit of what made them "the Maya" is all the more important. In this Very Short Introduction, Restall and Solari explore the themes of Maya identity, city-state political culture, art and architecture, the Maya concept of the cosmos, and the Maya experience of contact with — including invasion by — outsiders. Despite its brevity, this book is unique for its treatment of all periods of
Maya civilization, from its origins to the present.
About the author
Matthew Restall, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Anthropology, Penn State University, and Amara Solari, Associate Professor of Art History and Anthropology, Penn State UniversityMatthew Restall is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Anthropology and Director of Latin American Studies at Penn State University. His books include The Maya World, Maya Conquistador, Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest, The Black Middle, 2012 and the End of the World, The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction, and When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting Than Changed History.
Amara Solari is Professor of Art History and Anthropology at Penn State University. She is the co-author of 2012 and the End of the World: The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse, and author of Maya Ideologies of the Sacred: The Transfiguration of Space in Colonial Yucatan, and Idolizing Mary: Maya-Christian Icons in Early Modern Yucatán.
Matthew Restall, Amara Solari
Table of contents
Chapter 1 Maya Genesis
Chapter 2 The Divine King
Chapter 3 The Writing Rabbit
Chapter 4 A Day in the Life
Chapter 5 Maya "Mysteries"
Chapter 6 Conquests
Chapter 7 Colonizations
Further Reading
Index
Matthew Restall, Amara Solari
Description
The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas — and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya communities built spectacular cities with large, well-fed large populations. They mastered the visual arts, and developed a sophisticated writing system that recorded extraordinary knowledge in calendrics, mathematics, and astronomy. The Maya achieved all this without area-wide centralized control. There was never a single, unified Maya state or empire, but always numerous, evolving ethnic groups speaking dozens of distinct Mayan languages. The people we call "Maya" never thought of themselves as such; yet
something definable, unique, and endlessly fascinating - what we call Maya culture - has clearly existed for millennia. So what was their self-identity and how did Maya civilization come to be "invented?"
With the Maya historically subdivided and misunderstood in so many ways, the pursuit of what made them "the Maya" is all the more important. In this Very Short Introduction, Restall and Solari explore the themes of Maya identity, city-state political culture, art and architecture, the Maya concept of the cosmos, and the Maya experience of contact with — including invasion by — outsiders. Despite its brevity, this book is unique for its treatment of all periods of
Maya civilization, from its origins to the present.
About the author
Matthew Restall, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Anthropology, Penn State University, and Amara Solari, Associate Professor of Art History and Anthropology, Penn State UniversityMatthew Restall is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Anthropology and Director of Latin American Studies at Penn State University. His books include The Maya World, Maya Conquistador, Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest, The Black Middle, 2012 and the End of the World, The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction, and When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting Than Changed History.
Amara Solari is Professor of Art History and Anthropology at Penn State University. She is the co-author of 2012 and the End of the World: The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse, and author of Maya Ideologies of the Sacred: The Transfiguration of Space in Colonial Yucatan, and Idolizing Mary: Maya-Christian Icons in Early Modern Yucatán.
Table of contents
Chapter 1 Maya Genesis
Chapter 2 The Divine King
Chapter 3 The Writing Rabbit
Chapter 4 A Day in the Life
Chapter 5 Maya "Mysteries"
Chapter 6 Conquests
Chapter 7 Colonizations
Further Reading
Index
Jane Caplan
Antulio J. Echevarria II
Frank Ledwidge
Alan Knight
Barry Cunliffe
Hugh Bowden
Gillian Clark
Louis P. Masur
Heather Clark
Andrew J. Bayliss
