Archaeology at El Perú-Waka': Ancient Maya Performances of Ritual, Memory, and Power
Author:   Olivia C. Navarro-Farr ,  Michelle Rich
Publisher:   University of Arizona Press
Edition:   4th
ISBN:  

9780816530960


Pages:   296
Publication Date:   04 December 2014
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Olivia C. Navarro-Farr ,  Michelle Rich
Publisher:   University of Arizona Press
Imprint:   University of Arizona Press
Edition:   4th
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.554kg
ISBN:  

9780816530960


ISBN 10:   0816530963
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   04 December 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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The contributors show how burials as conjunctions of gender and power, buildings as overt proclamations of such power, and commemorative monuments were used to maintain dynastic social memory. The book is not just an essay in model-building: it also provides a lot of data on epigraphy, palaeopathology, royal alliances, ritual narratives, the spatial matrix of performance, and lithic production as part of mortuary rites. Antiquity


There is really no other work that attempts to summarize such a variety of field data from a single Maya site and yet maintain theoretical conceptual cohesion. Matthew G. Looper, author of To Be Like Gods: Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization


There is really no other work that attempts to summarize such a variety of field data from a single Maya site and yet maintain theoretical conceptual cohesion. --Matthew G. Looper, author of To Be Like Gods: Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization


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Olivia C. Navarro-Farr is an assistant professor of anthropology and archaeology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Program in Archaeology at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio.

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