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The Cosmos of the Yucatec Maya

Name: The Cosmos of the Yucatec Maya
Brand: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
SKU: 9780826322920
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UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESSISBN: 9780826322920

Cycles and Steps from the Madrid Codex

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By Meredith Paxton
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
Release Date: February 4, 2002
Format: HARDBACK
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Pages: 242

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Flourishing by AD 250-300, Maya civilisation extended over large sections of modern Mexico and Guatemala, as well as Belize, and into present-day El Salvador and Honduras. This book provides an ingenious and thorough new study of parts of two of the Maya books, or codices, with particular focus on a previously unrecognised image of the solar year that appears in the manuscript known as the Madrid Codex. The motif of the solar year also underlies her identification of a regional organisation among the ruins of the Yucatec Maya settlements. Incorporating analyses of art, archaeology, astronomy, and colonial and modern ethnography pertaining to Yucatan, as well as studies of sixteenth-century Spanish beliefs, she elicits fascinating new meanings from her sources. She invites Mesoamerican specialists and students to consider links between components of pre-Conquest Maya civilisation. This innovative, scholarly text is essential reading for all who are interested in Mesoamerica, and it is sure to stimulate additional developments in the field of Maya cosmology and ideology.

Merideth Paxton

"In this clearly written and beautifully presented book, Paxton supports her calendrical and astronomical arguments in five rewarding appendixes--Appendix D being an invaluable explanation of sixteenth-century Spanish astronomy and its origins." "The author covers a wide range of subjects, including art, archaeology, astronomy, colonial and modern ethnography, and sixteenth century Spanish beliefs. This is a detailed study that is likely to be of interest to specialists and students of Mesoamerican studies." "Paxton has written a well-referenced book for Mesoamerican specialists that reinterprets parts of the Madrid Codex, manuscripts dated before the Hispanic conquest of large areas of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. . . . With many illustrations, maps, and tables, this well-indexed book will be appreciated by scholars of Mayan calendar, religion, and mythology studies."

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