Libros de Estudios mayas 308 resultados

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

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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...

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...

Miquel Dewever-Plana

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...

Zelia Nuttall

Gisele Diaz

Edgar Cabrera

Dennis Tedlock

Popol Vuh, the Quiche Mayan book of creation is not only the most important text in the native language of the Americas, it is also an extraordinary document of the human imagination. It begins with the deeds of Mayan Gods in the darkness of a primeval sea and ends with the radiant splendor of the Mayan Lords who founded the Quiche Kingdom in the Guatemalan highlands. Originall...

Stephen Houston

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...

Sergio Romero

David Webster

La antigua civilización maya se desarrolló con fuerza en los trópicos de Centromérica durante más de dos milenos y produjo algunas de las obras artísticas y arquitectónicas más hermosas del mundo. Después, de forma misteriosa, se desvaneció, dejando tras de sí un paisaje de ruinas sumidas en el silencio bajo el denso manto de la selva. El hundimiento del pueblo maya es uno de l...

Marco Lobos

Lost Civilizations

Najarro, Olga Judith

Ancient Mayan Message (Dresden Codex facsimile) This third edition features a full-color reproduction of The Dresden Codex that has been carefully crafted by the author Olga Judith Najarro Ibarra, to re-create the original Mayan manuscript, an archaeological and historical treasure. This facsimile should benefit in the research, study and consultation of this mysterious Mayan h...

Matthew, Laura E.

Los guerreros indígenas fueron indispensables en las conquistas mesoamericanas del siglo XVI tanto de Tenochtitlán como de otros lugares. ¿Qué esperaban estos "yndios conquistadores" de su alianza con los invadores europeos y cómo vivieron esta identidad durante el período novohispano? Memorias de conquista relata la historia de una colonia de conquistadores indígenas del centr...

Elizabeth A. Newsome

Based on a thorough analysis of the imagery and inscriptions of seven stelae erected in the Great Plaza at Copan, Honduras, by the Classic Period ruler "18-Rabbit-God K," this ambitious study argues that stelae were erected not only to support a ruler's temporal claims to power but more importantly to express the fundamental connection in Maya worldview between rulership and th...

Prudence M.rice

How did the ancient Maya rule their world? Despite more than a century of archaeological investigation and glyphic decipherment, the nature of Maya political organization and political geography has remained an open question. Many debates have raged over models of centralization versus decentralization, superordinate and subordinate status—with far-flung analogies to emerging s...

James E. Brady / Keith M. Prufer

This volume gathers papers from twenty prominent Mesoamerican archaeologists, linguists, and ethnographers to present a state-of-the-art survey of ritual cave use in Mesoamerica from Pre-Columbian times to the present. ...