Libros de Estudios mayas 292 resultados

Ana Gallo

Descubre los mitos y leyendas de la civilización maya que han sentado las bases de esta cultura milenaria de Centroamérica: el poder del enano de Uxmal, el enfado de Chaac, la magia de los aluxes o la creación del mundo de Chom, gracias a esta completa selección de relatos ilustrados ...

Claudia Brittenham

In Unseen Art, Claudia Brittenham unravels one of the most puzzling phenomena in Mesoamerican art history: why many of the objects that we view in museums today were once so difficult to see. She examines the importance that ancient Mesoamerican people assigned to the process of making and enlivening the things we now call art, as well as Mesoamerican understandings of sight as...

Marion Popenoe De Hatch

Doctor Marion Popenoe de Hatch is a Guatemalan-American archaeologist who has worked tirelessly to reconstruct an important part of Guatemala's prehispanic history. This book is the culmination of over 45 years of her research at many sites in Guatemala's Highlands and South Coast, particularly Monte Alto, Semetabaj, Tak'alik Ab'aj, and Kaminaljuyu.In addition to publishing ext...

Taranilla De La Varga, Carlos Javier

Desde la enigmática cultura olmeca en Mesoamérica, el clasicismo de Teotihuacán, los zapotecas de Monte Albán, los mayas y sus núcleos urbanos, Nazca y Tiahuanaco en los Andes, los toltecas en Tula y el arte maya-puuc en Chichén Itzá, hasta los aztecas de Tenochtitlán y el Imperio inca en torno a Cuzco y Machu-Picchu. Con Breve historia del arte precolombino conocerá el desarro...

Andrew Finegold

The Resurrection Plate, a Late Classic Maya dish, is decorated with an arresting scene. The Maize God, assisted by two other deities, emerges reborn from a turtle shell. At the center of the plate, in the middle of the god's body and aligned with the point of emergence, there is a curious sight: a small, neatly drilled hole.Art historian Andrew Finegold explores the meanings at...

Tapia, Javier

«Busco en el pasado una brecha, algo que rescate a la humanidad de su ignorancia y de sus sistemas jerárquicos de opresión, codicia y guerra, porque en el presente no la hay, y, en el futuro, mucho menos». Proverbio maya. ¿Qué fue del gran pueblo maya constructor de las pirámides y conocedor del cero y del devenir de los cielos? ¿Qué pasó en los trescientos años que estuvieron ...

Traci Ardren

For the ancient Maya, food was both sustenance and a tool for building a complex society. This collection, the first to focus exclusively on the social uses of food in Classic Maya culture, deploys a variety of theoretical approaches to examine the meaning of food beyond diet—ritual offerings and restrictions, medicinal preparations, and the role of nostalgia around food, among...

Ilan Stavans

An inspired and urgent prose retelling of the Maya myth of creation by acclaimed Latin American author and scholar Ilan Stavans, gorgeously illustrated by Salvadoran folk artist Gabriela Larios and introduced by renowned author, diplomat, and environmental activist Homero Aridjis. ...

Nicholas Carter / Stephen Houston / Franco Rossi

How we dress our bodies—through clothing, footwear, headgear, jewelry, haircuts, and more—is key to the expression of status and identity. This idea was as true for ancient Maya civilization as it is today, yet few studies have centered on what ancient Maya peoples wore and why. In The Adorned Body, Nicholas Carter, Stephen Houston, and Franco Rossi bring together contributions...

Carmack, Robert M.

El enfoque central del libro es reconstruir la etnohistoria de los Mayas K'iché de Guatemala, desdela época prehispánica hasta el presente. Sin embargo, incluye numerosas referencias a otros grupos mayas de Guatemala, y el sureste de México. ...

Matthew Looper

The first book to focus on the multifaceted images of deer and hunting in ancient Maya art, from the award-winning author of To Be Like Gods: Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization.Winner, CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019The white-tailed deer had a prominent status in Maya civilization: it was the most important wild-animal food source at many inland Maya sites and also func...

Diego De Landa

La " Relación de las cosas de Yucatán " proviene de los alegatos del franciscano Diego de Landa (1524-1579) en un proceso incoado en España a raíz de un suceso acaecido en Yucatán cuando era inquisidor en funciones contra prácticas idolátricas. Sin embargo, y paradójicamente, el furibundo fraile se revela en estas páginas como un atento y agudo observador de esa civilización ...

Martha J. Macri / Matthew Looper

For hundreds of years, Maya artists and scholars used hieroglyphs to record their history and culture. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, archaeologists, photographers, and artists recorded the Maya carvings that remained, often by transporting box cameras and plaster casts through the jungle on muleback. The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, Volume I: The Classic Period...

akal was one of the greatest ancient rulers and the most prominent among a long line of monarchs who held sway at Palenque from AD 300 to 800. This "queen of Maya cities," as Palenque has been called, fell into ruin and was abandoned along with other great urban centers when Maya civilization suffered a mysterious collapse more than 1000 years ago Through the eyes of David and ...

William Carlsen

In 1839, rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world's most intrepid travelers. Seized by the reports, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and British artist Frederick Catherwood—both already celebrated for their adventures in Egypt, the Holy Land, Greece, and Rome—sailed together out of New Y...

María Concepción Obregón Rodríguez

El Alto Usumacinta es una de las zonas más importantes del mundo maya gracias a la gran cantidad de textos y de vestigios materiales encontrados en la región. Los testimonios encontrados en las principales ciudades asentadas en los márgenes del río dan una oportunidad única para la reconstrucción histórica de la civilización maya. La presente obra ofrece una idea integral de lo...

Stephen D. Houston / David Stuart / Karl Taube

All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But is it possible for us, embodied as we are in a particular time and place, to know how people of long ago thought about the body and its experiences? In this groundbreaking book, three leading experts on the Classic Maya (ca. AD 250 to 850) marshal a vast array o...

Anónimo

De gran valor histórico y espiritual, se cree que pudo ser escrito alrededor del año 1560 d.C. por los señores que pertenecían a la clase dominante quiché, en Utatlán. Se trata de un manuscrito que ha sido preservado milagrosamente del paso inclemente del tiempo, que ha sobrevivido al discurrir de los siglos, y que nos da una clara idea de la importancia que en su momento tuvo ...

Medina, Tito

... Cada quién va tejiendo su destino,su grandeza y su esperanza,a veces apreciando, a veces ignorando,las energías de los días,a veces recordando las voces del pasado,a veces dibujando futuros soñadores.Pero en fin,tejiendo con y en el hilo de la vida,la esencia del B'atz',recordando y anunciandoque en esta historia en espiraleslo maya es nuestra esenciaa veces apreciada,a vec...

William Carlsen

In 1839, rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world's most intrepid travelers. Seized by the reports, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and British artist Frederick Catherwood—both already celebrated for their adventures in Egypt, the Holy Land, Greece, and Rome—sailed together out of New Y...

Andrew K. Scherer

From the tombs of the elite to the graves of commoners, mortuary remains offer rich insights into Classic Maya society. In Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya: Rituals of Body and Soul, the anthropological archaeologist and bioarchaeologist Andrew K. Scherer explores the broad range of burial practices among the Maya of the Classic period (AD 250-900), integrating informati...

Traci Ardren

Using new archaeological data from four major cities of the Classic Maya world, this book explores how gender, age, familial and community memories, and the experience of living in an urban setting interacted to form social identities. ...

Varios Autores / Morris Jr., Walter / Carol Karasik

Winner of: u003cbru003e u003cbru003e IBPA 2016 Benjamin Franklin Gold Award, Multiculturalu003cbru003e u003cbru003e Through the pages of this incredibly-researched history and photo gallery, the world of the Maya lives on through the lens of its culture and costume, still seen today in the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. In a region battered by centuries of invasions, subj...

Rivera Dorado, Miguel

El Popol Vuh es un compendio de mitos cosmogónicos de los mayas del altiplano de Guatemala. Su calidad literaria corre pareja con la importancia de los textos que contiene para la Historia de las Religiones y la Antropología en general. A pesar de su relativa brevedad el Popol Vuh es una fuente inagotable de significados, interpretaciones y lecturas culturales. Los personajes, ...

Christina T. Halperin

Rather than view the contours of Late Classic Maya social life solely from towering temple pyramids or elite sculptural forms, this book considers a suite of small anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and supernatural figurative remains excavated from household refuse deposits. Maya Figurines examines these often neglected objects and uses them to draw out relationships between the May...

Jennifer L. Burrell

Guatemala's thirty-six-year civil war culminated in peace accords in 1996, but the postwar transition has been marked by continued violence, including lynchings and the rise of gangs, as well as massive wage-labor exodus to the United States. For the Mam Maya municipality of Todos Santos Cuchumatán, inhabited by a predominantly indigenous peasant population, the aftermath of wa...

Varios Autores / Norman Hammond / Gordon R. Willey

Embracing a wide range of research, this book offers various views on the intellectual history of Maya archaeology and ethnohistory and the processes operating in the rise and fall of Maya civilization.The fourteen studies were selected from those presented at the Second Cambridge Symposium on Recent Research in Mesoamerican Archaeology and are presented in three major sections...

Sam Colop

¡Finalmente, la nueva edición del Popol Wuj de Sam Colop!"...no estamos ante una traducción más, sino acaso ante la definitiva..." Francisco Pérez de Antón"Desde su ser maya K´iche´, Sam Colop nos ha restituido un libro original a partir del lenguaje poético en que fuera escrito, para recordarnos que la escritura y la belleza han existido de este lado del mundo desde tiempos in...

Gonzalez Gonzalez, Carlos Javier

Estudio antropológico riguroso que trae una renovada luz sobre el dios mexica Xipe y su culto en centro de México y Mesoamérica, recopilando fuentes históricas arqueológicas y bibliografía especializada sobre "Nuestro Señor el Desollado" descubriendo su estrecho vínculo con la diosa madre Toci o Tlazoltéotl, y encontrando un simbolismo novedoso al desollamiento de víctimas, enr...

Ajpwaq, Saqilk'u'x

"Secretos para llenar el cofre con kakaw trata de mostrar un camino para fomentar el ahorro personal y familiar. Muestra en un relato cómo comenzar a superar el problema de pobreza y del hambre. Tanto a nivel familiar, como a nivel de la comunidad de pertenencia. Es una historia contextualizada en un tiempo antes de la llegada de los castellanos a la actual Guatemala."--P. 6. ...