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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Gerardo AldanaPublisher: University of Arizona Press Imprint: University of Arizona Press Weight: 0.964kg ISBN: 9780816542208ISBN 10: 0816542201 Pages: 464 Publication Date: 15 March 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsA 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 Author InformationGerardo 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |