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The beast between : deer in Maya art and culture / Matthew Looper.
Penn Museum Library F1435.3.A7 L66 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Looper, Matthew George, 1966- author.
- Series:
- Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies
- The Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Maya art.
- Deer in art.
- Animals and civilization.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Mayas--Antiquities.
- Mayas.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019.
- Contents:
- Deer life : the Maya ethnobiology of deer
- Bones to picks : the classic Maya use and depiction of durable deer remains
- Big bucks : deer and social status
- Wearing the horns : deer, sexuality, and fertility in "dying god" scenes
- Locking horns : deer hunting, warfare, the ballgame, and male rites of passage
- Hart's devotion : the Siip in classic and postclassic Maya society
- A sinking hart : the solar symbolism of deer in Maya art
- Deer departed : cervid spirits of death and disease
- Epilogue. Out of the woods: deer and borders.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-263) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781477318058
- 1477318054
- OCLC:
- 1048658442
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