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Ruins of the past : the use and perception of abandoned structures in the Maya lowlands / Travis W. Stanton and Aline Magnoni, editors.
Penn Museum Library F1435.3.A6 R85 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Mesoamerican worlds
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Maya architecture.
- Abandoned buildings--Mexico.
- Abandoned buildings.
- Abandoned buildings--Central America.
- Buildings--Remodeling for other use--Mexico.
- Buildings.
- Buildings--Remodeling for other use--Central America.
- Buildings--Remodeling for other use.
- Mexico--Antiquities.
- Mexico.
- Antiquities.
- Central America--Antiquities.
- Central America.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2008]
- Summary:
- From the Preclassic to the present, Maya peoples have continuously built, altered, abandoned, and re-used structures, imbuing them with new meanings at each transformation. Ruins of the Past is the first volume to focus on how previously built structures in the Maya Lowlands were used and perceived by later peoples, exploring the topic through concepts of landscape, place, and memory. The collection, as Wendy Ashmore points out in her foreword, offersa stimulating, productive, and fresh set of inferences about ancient Maya cognition of their own past.?
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Places of Remembrance: The Use and Perception of Abandoned Structures in the Maya Lowlands / Travis W. Stanton, Aline Magnoni 1
- Chapter 2 Forgotten Structures, Haunted Houses, and Occupied Hearts: Ancient Perspectives and Contemporary Interpretations of Abandoned Sites and Buildings in the Mirador Basin, Guatemala / Richard D. Hansen, Wayne K. Howell, Stanley P. Guenter 25
- Chapter 3 The Transformation of Abandoned Architecture at Piedras Negras / Mark B. Child, Charles W. Golden 65
- Chapter 4 Structure Abandonment and Landscape Transformation: Examples from the Three Rivers Region / Lauren A. Sullivan, Jon B. Hageman, Brett A. Houk, Paul Hughbanks, Fred Valdez Jr. 91
- Chapter 5 Manipulating Memory in the Wake of Dynastic Decline at El Peru-Waka': Termination Deposits at Abandoned Structure M13-1 / Olivia C. Navarro Farr, David A. Freidel, Ana Lucia Arroyave Prera 113
- Chapter 6 Establishing and Reusing Sacred Place: A Diachronic Perspective from Blackman Eddy, Belize / M. Kathryn Brown, James F. Garber 147
- Chapter 7 Anatomy of a Post-Collapse Society: Identity and Interaction in Early Postclassic Copan / T. Kam Manahan 171
- Chapter 8 Landscape Transformations and Changing Perceptions at Chunchucmil, Yucatan / Aline Magnoni, Scott R. Hutson, Travis W. Stanton 193
- Chapter 9 Edzna: A Lived Place through Time / Antonio Benavides C. 223
- Chapter 10 Memories, Meanings, and Historical Awareness: Post-Abandonment Behaviors among the Lowland Maya / Marcello A. Canuto, Anthony P. Andrews 257.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-351) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780870818882
- 0870818880
- OCLC:
- 177820911
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