Calculating Brilliance: An Intellectual History of Mayan Astronomy at Chich'en Itza

Author:   Gerardo Aldana
Publisher:   University of Arizona Press
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9780816542208


Pages:   464
Publication Date:   15 March 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Gerardo Aldana
Publisher:   University of Arizona Press
Imprint:   University of Arizona Press
Weight:   0.964kg
ISBN:  

9780816542208


ISBN 10:   0816542201
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   15 March 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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A truly decolonial work that strips away the Eurocentric presuppositions of a century of Mayan studies scholarship to relate new openings and possibilities in the field. Aldana y Villalobos masterfully crafts a new methodology and approach for understanding the development of a unique Mayan science that weaves together hieroglyphic writing, mathematics, history, and astronomy. --Roberto D. Hernandez, author of Coloniality of the U-S/Mexico Border: Power, Violence, and the Decolonial Imperative This is an ambitious book. It ties different intellectual threads together across time and space, from the Classic to the Postclassic, the colonial period to the twenty-first century, and creates a new vision for Mayan astronomy. In so doing, this book explores the nature of science in the pre-Columbian world and questions modern views of the ancient Maya. --James L. Fitzsimmons, author of The Archaeology of Death in Ancient Mesoamerica


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Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos is a professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Apotheosis of Janaab Pakal: Science, History and Religion at Classic Maya Palenque and specializes in Mayan hieroglyphic history and science and technology studies.

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