The measure and meaning of time in Mesoamerica and the Andes
| Körperschaft: |
Dumbarton Oaks
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| Weitere Verfasser: |
Aveni, Anthony F.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Washington, D.C. :
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection,
2015.
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| Umfang/Format: |
ix, 315 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia
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| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Andes Mittelamerika |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Timely themes : an introduction to the measure and meaning of time in Mesoamerica and the Andes / Anthony F. Aveni
- From counting down to counting out : on the relationship between apocalyptic and normal time in the Western passion for precise time measurement / Richard Landes
- Part I. Sensing pre-Columbian time
- Ecumene time, anecumene time : proposal of a paradigm / Alfredo Lopez Austin
- When pre-sunrise beings inhabit a post-sunrise world : time, animate objects, and contemporary Tz'utujil Maya ritual practitioners / Linda A. Brown
- "To put in order" : classic Maya concepts of time and space / Markus Eberl
- Understanding time, space, and social organization in the Inca Ceque system of Cuzco / Anthony F. Aveni
- Space and time in the architecture of Inca royal estates / Stella Nair
- Time and the other : the early colonial mythohistorical landscapes of the Huarochiri manuscript / Jalh Dulanto
- Part II. Registering pre-Columbian time
- Linearity and cyclicity in pre-Columbian Maya time reckoning / Victoria R. Bricker and Harvey M. Bricker
- Divine reckoning : the calendrical ground of Mexican dynastic imagery / William L. Barnes
- Ages of the world in the Andes / Juan M. Ossio A.
- Refounding the house : time, politics, and metallogenesis in a colonial Aymara coat of arms / Tristan Platt
- Of calendars and computers : comparing Mesoamerica and Bali / John Monaghan
- An overview of "the measure and meaning of time in Mesoamerica and the Andes" / Anthony F. Aveni.
