The Maya in a Mesoamerican context : comparative approaches to Maya studies : proceedings of the 16th European Maya Conference, Copenhagen, December 5-10, 2011

Parallelsachtitel: Comparative approaches to Maya studies
Proceedings of the 16th European Maya Conference, Copenhagen, December 5-10, 2011
Körperschaft: European Maya Conference
Weitere Verfasser: Nielsen, Jesper, 1972-
Helmke, Christophe
Danbo, Rosa-Maria Worm
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Markt Schwaben, Germany : Anton Saurwein, 2013.
Umfang/Format: 208 p. : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 30 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Acta Mesoamericana ; v. 26
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Mexiko
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Why compare? : reflections on comparisons in Mesoamerican studies / Rikke Marie Søegaard
  • The world in a gourd : a comparative perspective on origin myths of the Maya and Teotihuacan / Jesper Nielsen & Christophe Helmke
  • In the place of the mist : analysing a Maya myth from a Mesoamerican perspective / Rogelio Valencia Rivera & Hugo García Capistrán
  • Mesoamerican maize god mythology : the "Enano de Uxmal" folktale / Erik Boot
  • The flower world of Cotzumalhuapa / Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos
  • Earning your stripes : an iconographic analysis of war paint among Mesoamerican cultures / Julie Nehammer Knub
  • The writing on the wall : a paleographic analysis of the Maya texts of Tetitla, Teotihuacan / Christophe Helmke & Jesper Nielsen
  • Western foreigners in the Dresden Codex / Dmitri Beliaev
  • "Once they were foreigners, but now they are Maya" : Highland Maya adoption of foreign deities / Allen Christenson
  • Unwrapping the sacred bundle : problems of cultural continuity and regional diversity in the study of ancient Maya deities / Lars Frühsorge
  • A glass menagerie of meaning : obsidian exchange in Mesoamerica / Helen R. Haines & Michael D. Glascock.