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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Mesoamerican worlds.
- Mesoamerican worlds
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buildings--Remodeling for other use--Central America.
- Buildings.
- Buildings--Remodeling for other use--Mexico.
- Abandoned buildings--Central America.
- Abandoned buildings.
- Abandoned buildings--Mexico.
- Maya architecture.
- Central America--Antiquities.
- Central America.
- Mexico--Antiquities.
- Mexico.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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, offers "a stimulating, productive, and fresh set of inferences about ancient Maya cognition of their own past." Contributors include Anthony P. Andrews, Ana Lucía Arroyave Prera, Antonio Benavides C., M. Kathryn Brown, Marcello A. Canuto, Mark B. Child, David A. Freidel, James F. Garber, Charles W. Golden, Stanley P. Guenter, Jon B. Hageman, Richard D. Hansen, Brett A. Houk, Wayne K. Howell, Paul Hughbanks, Scott R. Hutson, Aline Magnoni, T. Kam Manahan, Olivia C. Navarro Farr, Travis W. Stanton, Lauren A. Sullivan, and Fred Valdez Jr.
- Contents:
- Contents; Figures; Foreword; Note on Use of Accents; 1: Places of Remembrance; 2: Forgotten Structures, Haunted Houses, and Occupied Hearts; 3: The Transformation of Abandoned Architecture at Piedras Negras; 4: Structure Abandonment and Landscape Transformation; 5: Manipulating Memory in the Wake of Dynastic Decline at El Perú-Waka'; 6: Establishing and Reusing Sacred Place; 7: Anatomy of a Post-Collapse Society; 8: Landscape Transformations and Changing Perceptions at Chunchucmil, Yucatán; 9: Edzná; 10: Memories, Meanings, and Historical Awareness; Afterword; References Cited; Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-351) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781607320036
- 1607320037
- OCLC:
- 923705260
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