Libros de Estudios mayas 310 resultados

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...

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

u003cpu003eThis collection represents a major step forward in understanding the era from the end of Classic Maya civilization to the Spanish conquest.u003c/pu003e ...

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

Zelia Nuttall

Gisele Diaz

Stephen Houston

Sergio Romero

Marco Lobos

Lost Civilizations

George Reston

Maria Estela Jocon Gonzalez

Ricardo E. Lima Soto

Carmack, Robert M.

k´Serie Entre LineasEs una serie que busca incentivar y retar, nuestro pensamiento crítico. No se puede leer y asumir mecánicamente los contenidos de esta serie. Generalmente, son libros que no fueron escritos para el Pueblo Maya, quizás porque no se preveía el surgimiento de un movimiento maya, como actor social vigoroso en Guatemala. Sin embargo, su valor está en aportar dato...

Recinos, Adrián

CON LA GRACIA Y LA SABIDURÍA DE LAS FÁBULAS CLÁSICAS, EL POPOL VUH ES EL MÁS PRECIOSOS LEGADO MÍTICO Y TEOGÓNICO, DE LA ANTIGÜEDAD AMERICANA. ...

Barrios Carlos

"Face to face with the schism caused by rational and scientific thought, Carlos Barrios undertakes an authentic and passionate search, bringing us close to the Cosmovision of one of the most ancient and wise people of our continent." — Nobel Laureate Ernesto SabatoJames Redfield's The Celestine Prophecy and the writings of Nostradamus meet Don Miguel Ruiz's The Four Agreements ...

Varios Autores / Edward Fischer

Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala marks a new era in Guatemalan studies by offering an up-to-the-minute look at the pan-Maya movement and the future of the Maya people as they struggle to regain control over their cultural destiny. The successful emergence of what is in some senses a nationalism grounded in ethnicity and language has challenged scholars to reconsider their co...

Jose Guillen Villalobos

El Popol Wuj es una epopeya en la que su creador deliberadamente rehuyó contar la historia del origen de los kichés en su cruda realidad. En vez de eso, en el siglo IX d.c., dibujó en jeroglificos una versión mítica de los hechos. El mito se tranmitió durante generaciones. A mediados del siglo XVI un poeta kiché le agrego 500 años de historia y lo escribió en alfabeto latino. A...

Luis Nicolau D Olwer

Esta antología recaba testimonios en torno al descubrimiento cultural de los pueblos del Nuevo Mundo. Las fuentes, que van de 1492 al siglo XVIII y del estrecho de Magallanes a la isla de Nutka, incluyen a Colón, Vespuccio, Díaz del Castillo, Motolinía, el Inca Garcilaso y Moziño, quienes, junto a otros frailes, juristas, soldados y marineros, dan su testimonio directo de lo am...

Edgar Cabrera

Takeshi Inomata / Stephen D. Houston

The two volumes of Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya provide current archaeological perspectives on Maya courts conceived as vital, functioning social groups composed of lords, courtiers, scribes, priests, and entertainers, among many others. In addition to archaeological data on the architecture and other spatial attributes of courts, the studies in the two volumes bring to bea...

Rex Koontz / Kathryn Reese-Taylor / Annabeth Headrick

From the early cities in the second millennium BC to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan on the eve of the Spanish conquest, Ancient Mesoamericans created landscapes full of meaning and power in the center of their urban spaces. The sixteenth century description of Tenochtitlan by Bernal Diaz del Castillo and the archaeological remnants of Teotihuacan attest to the power and cent...

Takeshi Inomata / Stephen D. Houston

The two volumes of Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya provide current archaeological perspectives on Maya courts conceived as vital, functioning social groups composed of lords, courtiers, scribes, priests, and entertainers, among many others. In addition to archaeological data on the architecture and other spatial attributes of courts, the studies in the two volumes bring to bea...