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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Matthew G. LooperPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 5.30cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.737kg ISBN: 9781477318058ISBN 10: 1477318054 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 22 April 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Deer Life: The Maya Ethnobiology of Deer Chapter 2. Bones to Picks: The Classic Maya Use and Depiction of Durable Deer Remains Chapter 3. Big Bucks: Deer and Social Status Chapter 4. Wearing the Horns: Deer, Sexuality, and Fertility in Dying God Scenes Chapter 5. Locking Horns: Deer Hunting, Warfare, the Ballgame, and Male Rites of Passage Chapter 6. Hart's Devotion: The Siip in Classic and Postclassic Maya Society Chapter 7. A Sinking Hart: The Solar Symbolism of Deer in Maya Art Chapter 8. Deer Departed: Cervid Spirits of Death and Disease Epilogue. Out of the Woods: Deer and Borders Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsThe author makes important contributions here, especially to ongoing efforts to recover poorly understood aspects of ancient Maya mythology as revealed through scenes on painted pottery. Profusely illustrated, well written, and amply documented, this book can also serve as a rewarding entree into broader subjects of ancient and modern Maya culture from archaeological, art historical, and ethnographic perspectives. -- (10/01/2019) The author makes important contributions here, especially to ongoing efforts to recover poorly understood aspects of ancient Maya mythology as revealed through scenes on painted pottery. Profusely illustrated, well written, and amply documented, this book can also serve as a rewarding entree into broader subjects of ancient and modern Maya culture from archaeological, art historical, and ethnographic perspectives. * CHOICE * [The Beast Between] provides an important addition to the overlapping fields of art history, anthropology, archaeology, and Maya studies...This book provides the definitive starting point for an important dialogue regarding the meaning of the deer in Maya iconography and semiology...Even as it highlights future avenues of research, Looper's work presents the first thorough and wide-ranging look at the deer in the Maya world from the ancient to modern periods. As such, this volume provides important insights into deer use among the Maya and will frame and influence all subsequent considerations of this often understudied and underappreciated creature for years to come. * caa.reviews * Much can be learned from this richly varied book, and it certainly contains numerous starting points for further investigation. * Anthropos * Author InformationMatthew Looper is a professor of art and art history at California State University, Chico. His previous books include To Be Like Gods: Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization, winner of the 2010 Association for Latin American Art Book Award; Gifts of the Moon: Huipil Designs of the Ancient Maya; Lightning Warrior: Maya Art and Kingship at Quirigua; and, most recently, Wearing Culture: Dress and Regalia in Early Mesoamerica and Central America, co-edited with Heather Orr. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |