Libros de Estudios mayas 311 resultados

Jean Molesky-Poz

Since the mid-1980s, when Guatemala returned to civilian rule and achieved relative peace and stability, the Maya have begun openly expressing their spiritual beliefs and practices. Jean Molesky-Poz draws on in-depth dialogues with Maya Ajq'ijab' (keepers of the ritual calendar), her own participant observation, and inter-disciplinary resources to offer a comprehensive, innovat...

Lucero, Lisa J.

In the southern Maya lowlands, rainfall provided the primary and, in some areas, the only source of water for people and crops. Classic Maya kings sponsored elaborate public rituals that affirmed their close ties to the supernatural world and their ability to intercede with deities and ancestors to ensure an adequate amount of rain, which was then stored to provide water during...

Ermilo Abreu Gomez / Abreu Gomez, Ermilo (Versión Y Prólogo)

El Popol Vuh es, sin duda, el libro indígena más importante de America. Desde luego es el libro coherente, mas hondo que ha producido el mundo prehispánico. Bien a bien es un libro religioso y al mismo tiempo, histórico. Ambos temas, como es natural, van sumergidos en un clima legendario que hace casi imposible deslindar los valores reales de los puramente imaginados. No se pie...

Montejo, Victor

When Mayan leaders protested the celebration of the Quincentenary of the "discovery" of America and joined with other indigenous groups in the Americas to proclaim an alternate celebration of 500 years of resistance, they rose to national prominence in Guatemala. This was possible in part because of the cultural, political, economic, and religious revitalization that occurred i...

Anonimo

Es el libro sagrado de los antiguos Maya-Quiché. El más distinguido ejemplo de literatura nativa americana que ha sobrevivido a los siglos ...

Universidad Mesoamericana

A scholarly, quality stock volume on aspects of Mesoamerican culture and history. Consists of eleven articles, chronology and bibliography, including themes of languages, political history, Mayan political life, urban centers, religion, art and science. ...

Anonimo

El Popol Vuh es un relato épico basado en las leyendas de la extraordinaria civilización maya-quiché, que habla sobre la creación del mundo. Nos relata las aventuras de 2 hermanos, que después de su muerte, ascienden a tomar el lugar de la luna y el sol. ...

Geoffrey E. Braswell

The contributors to this volume present extensive new evidence from archaeology, iconography, and epigraphy to offer a more nuanced understanding of the interaction between the Early Classic Maya and Teotihuacan.Winner, Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 2005Since the 1930s, archaeologists have uncovered startling evidence of interaction between the Early Classic Maya and the gr...

Rivera Dorado, Miguel

Este libro trata de acompañar en sus páginas a algunas gentes y culturas que han usado, soñado y temido a los espejos. El autor arqueólogo y profesor de Cultura Maya se interesa por ese símbolo que se encuentra también presente en numerosas manifestaciones culturales de Mesoamérica ...

Daniel Cacia

La cultura Maya creó el sistema de numeración Vigesimal, que ha sido poco conocido y valorado hasta la fecha. Una de las casuales del poco conocimiento es la falta de entendimiento del msimo y , como sonsecuencia, la no comprensión de la riqueza de los procesos mentales que son desarrollados o ejercitados cuando se aplica. En la metodología de la enseñanza del Sistema Vigesimal...

Matthew Looper

The ancient Maya city of Quirigua occupied a crossroads between Copan in the southeastern Maya highlands and the major centers of the Peten heartland. Though always a relatively small city, Quirigua stands out because of its public monuments, which were some of the greatest achievements of Classic Maya civilization. Impressive not only for their colossal size, high sculptural q...

Varios Autores / Jessica Joyce Christie

This book brings together state-of-the-art data and analysis regarding the occupants, ritual and residential uses, and social and cosmological meanings of Maya palaces and elite residences. ...

Lewis Spence

When the Spanish took over Central America in the 16th and 17th centuries they made certain to destroy the writings and holy books of the native Mayans in an effort to convert them to Christianity. Few texts survived, yet one did of the highest importance. It is called The Popol Vuh. It is the creation story of the Mayan culture and, according to the author, this was the first ...

Mercedes De La Garza

En este segundo volumen de la Enciclopedia Iberoamericana de Religiones (EIR) se ofrece un panorama general de la religión maya que a la vez es una visión histórica, desde el momento prehispánico hasta el presente, elaborado por especialistas en los distintos temas y desde sus propios enfoques metodológicos, de acuerdo con sus disciplinas. Pero esta diversidad tiene una profund...

Drew, David

En gran parte de lo que hoy es México, Guatemala, Belice y Honduras se han localizado docenas de grandes ciudades pertenecientes a la cultura maya. Los enormes logros intelectuales de los mayas en matemáticas, astronomía y conocimiento calendárico, y sobre todo su escritura jeroglífica, han experimentado grandes avances en su desciframiento. De los muros de los templos y las es...

León Cano, José

Mientras los pueblos nativos de Mesoamérica recuperan rápidamente su identidad, los últimos hallazgos arqueológicos no sólo otorgan a las culturas maya y azteca una grandeza insospechada hace apenas dos décadas, sino que cuestionan su supuesto aislamiento hasta el descubrimiento colombino. Las sorprendentes conexiones precortesianas con chinos, indostanos, japoneses, africanos,...

Victoria Schlesinger

A growing interest in all things Maya brings an increasing number of visitors to prehistoric Maya ruins and contemporary Maya communities in Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, western Honduras, the Yucatán Peninsula, and the southern areas of Chiapas and Tabasco, Mexico. For these visitors and indeed everyone with an interest in the Maya, this field guide highlights nearly 100 spe...

Garrett W. Cook

Each year in the Highland Guatemala town of Santiago Momostenango, Maya religious societies, dance teams, and cofradías perform the annual cycle of rituals and festivals prescribed by Costumbre (syncretized Maya Christian religion), which serves to renew the cosmic order. In this richly detailed ethnography, Garrett Cook explores how these festivals of Jesucristo and the saints...

Susan Milbrath

Observations of the sun, moon, planets, and stars played a central role in ancient Maya lifeways, as they do today among contemporary Maya who maintain the traditional ways. This pathfinding book reconstructs ancient Maya astronomy and cosmology through the astronomical information encoded in Precolumbian Maya art and confirmed by the current practices of living Maya peoples.Su...

Oliver La Farge

This classic ethnography of the village of Jacaltenango, first published in 1932 as The Year Bearer's People, gives extensive information about all aspects of the culture, including the economy, folklore, language & especially religion. It contains a detailed description of the Year Bearer's Ceremony, which, practiced for millennia, became extinct in 1933. Contains all the orig...

Andrea Stone

In 1979, a Kekchi Maya Indian accidentally discovered the entrance to Naj Tunich, a deep cave in the Maya Mountains of El Peten, Guatemala. One of the world's few deep caves that contain rock art, Naj Tunich features figural images and hieroglyphic inscriptions that have helped to revolutionize our understanding of ancient Maya art and ritual.In this book, Andrea Stone takes a ...

Piña Chan, Román

Román Piña Chan incursiona en la simbología, la iconografía y la escultura de las etnias olmeca y zapoteca, que contribuyeron a la formación de la escritura maya. Analiza los signos iconográficos que se observan en algunos monumentos de piedra, propios de los grupos olmecas urbanos y nos muestra algunos ejemplos de su escritura, con base en signos que adquieren un significado i...

Ruz Lhuillier, Alberto

Reunión de cuatro conferencias dictadas por el autor, en distintas universidades entre 1954 y 1955. Presenta en líneas muy generales, con el rigor del historiador y la pasión del amante de nuestras civilizaciones precolombinas, una visión integradora del pueblo maya desde sus orígenes, que rescata la esencia de una tradición cultural viva en el México de hoy. ...

Elliot M. Abrams

Maya architecture is often described as "massive" and "monumental," but experiments at Copan, Honduras, convinced Elliot Abrams that 300 people could have built one of the large palaces there in only 100 days.In this groundbreaking work, Abrams explicates his theory of architectural energetics, which involves translating structures into volumes of raw and manufactured materials...

Tatiana Proskouriakoff

Tatiana Proskouriakoff, a preeminent student of the Maya, made many breakthroughs in deciphering Maya writing, particularly in demonstrating that the glyphs record the deeds of actual human beings, not gods or priests. This discovery opened the way for a history of the Maya, a monumental task that Proskouriakoff was engaged in before her death in 1985. Her work, Maya History, h...

John Roberts

Mayan civilization, renowned for its mathematics, writing, architecture, religion, calendrics, and agriculture, fascinates scholars and a wide lay public as archaeology and glyphic decipherment reveal more of its secrets. In this pathfinding study of the Mayan language family, John S. Robertson explores major changes that have occurred in the core of Mayan grammar from the earl...

Arlen F. Chase / Prudence M.rice

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Victoria Reifler Bricker

Victoria Bricker shows that "history" sometimes rests on mythological foundations and that "myth" can contain valid historical information. Her book, which is a highly original critique of postconquest historiography about the Maya, challenges major assumptions about the relationship between myth and history implicit in structuralist interpretations. The focus of the book is et...

Miquel Dewever-Plana

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