Astronomers, scribes, and priests : intellectual interchange between the northern Maya lowlands and highland Mexico in the late postclassic period
| Parallelsachtitel: |
Intellectual interchange between the northern Maya lowlands and highland Mexico in the Late Postclassic period |
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| Körperschaft: |
Dumbarton Oaks
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| Weitere Verfasser: |
Hernández, Christine L.
Vail, Gabrielle |
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Washington, D.C. :
Dumbarton Oaks,
2010.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xi, 431 p., 4 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 27 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia
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| Schlagworte: |
Astronomie
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| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Mexiko |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Astronomers, scribes and priests : an introduction / Gabrielle Vail and Christine Hernández
- Pt. 1. Archaeological evidence
- Introduction / Christine Hernández, Anthony P. Andrews, and Gabrielle Vail
- Interaction between central and eastern Mesoamerica before and during the Culhua Mexican expansion / Fernando Robles Castellanos ; (translated by Christine Hernández)
- Evidence for Maya-Mexican interaction in the archaeological record of Mayapán / Marilyn A. Masson and Carlos Peraza Lope
- Cosmology and cultural landscape : the Late Postclassic Maya of north Yucatán
- Anthony F. Aveni
- Pt. 2. Texts, language, and imagery
- Introduction / Gabrielle Vail and Christine Hernández
- At dawn's edge : Tulúm, Santa Rita, and floral symbolism in the international style of Late Postclassic Mesoamerica / Karl Taube
- Scribal interaction in Postclassic Mesoamerica / Martha J. Macri
- Linguistic evidence for historical contacts between Nahuas and northern lowland Mayan speakers / Karen Dakin
- Nahua vocables in a Maya song of the fall of Chichén Itzá : music and social memory in the construction of Yucatecan ethnicities / Timothy W. Knowlton
- Pt. 3. Archeoastronomy, codices, and cosmologies
- Introduction / Gabrielle Vail and Christine Hernández
- Solar-based cartographic traditions of the Mexica and the Yucatec Maya / Merideth Paxton
- A comparison of Venus instruments in the Borgia and Madrid codices / Victoria R. Bricker
- A case for scribal interaction : evidence from the Madrid and Borgia group codices / Christine Hernández and Gabrielle Vail
- Pt. 4. Commentaries
- Travelers in the night : a discussion of the archaeological visibility of trade enclaves, ethnicity, and ideology / Anthony P. Andrews
- Highland Mexican and Maya intellectual exchange in the Late Postclassic : some thoughts on the origin of shared elements and methods of interaction / Alfonso Lacadena.
