Precolumbian water management : ideology, ritual, and power / edited by Lisa J. Lucero and Barbara W. Fash.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lucero, Lisa Joyce, 1962-

Fash, Barbara W., 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of Central America--Antiquities.

Indians of Central America.

Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Antiquities.

Indians of North America.

Water--Symbolic aspects.

Water-supply.

Management.

History.

New Southwest.

Antiquities.

Water-supply--Central America--Management--History.

Water-supply--Southwest, New--Management--History.

Water--Symbolic aspects--Central America.

Water.

Water--Symbolic aspects--Southwest, New.

Central America--Antiquities.

Central America.

Southwest, New--Antiquities.

Southwest, New.

Physical Description:

vi, 304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2006]

Contents:

Precolumbian water management : an introduction / Lisa J. Lucero and Barbara W. Fash

Cosmological and sociopolitical synergy in preclassic architectural complexes / Ann Cyphers ... [et al.]

A land that tastes of water / Ann Cyphers and Judith Zurita-Noguera

Water management and political economy in formative period central Mexico / Deborah L. Nichols ... [et al.]

Water management at Kaminaljuyu : the beginnings of power and ideology in the Guatemalan highlands / Juan Antonio Valdés

Environmental variability among bajos in the southern Maya lowlands and its implications for ancient Maya civilization and archaeology / Nicholas P. Dunning, Timothy Beach, and Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach

Water management, ritual, and community in tropical complex societies / Julie L. Kunen

The political and sacred power of water in classic Maya society / Lisa J. Lucero

Copan water ritual and management : imagery and sacred place / Barbara W. Fash and Karla L. Davis-Salazar

Archaeological and epigraphic evidence for water management and ritual at Palenque / Kirk D. French, David S. Stuart, and Alfonso Morales

Hydraulic features of the Mexico-Texcoco lakes during the postclassic period / Margarita Carballal Staedtler and María Flores Hernández

Water sources at Mayapan, Yucatán, Mexico / Clifford T. Brown

Animated waters : ritual technology at Casas Grandes, Chihuahua / William H. Walker and Gaea McGahee

Mirror of the earth : water, landscape, and meaning in the Precolumbian Southwest / James E. Snead

An overview of Mesoamerican water systems / Vernon Scarborough.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-286) and index.

ISBN:

0816523142

9780816523146

OCLC:

65197795

Publisher Number:

9780816523146