The Classic Maya

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Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-09-14
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

In the first millennium AD, the Classic Maya created courtly societies in and around the Yucatan Peninsula that have left some of the most striking intellectual and aesthetic achievements of the ancient world, including large settlements like Tikal, Copan, and Palenque. This book is the first in-depth synthesis of the Classic Maya. It is richly informed by new decipherments of hieroglyphs and decades of intensive excavation and survey. Structured by categories of person in society, it reports on kings, queens, nobles, gods, and ancestors, as well as the many millions of farmers and other figures who lived in societies predicated on sacred kingship and varying political programs. The Classic Maya presents a tandem model of societies bound by moral covenants and convulsed by unavoidable tensions between groups, all affected by demographic trends and changing environments. Focusing on the Classic heartland but referring to other zones, it will serve as the basic source for all readers interested in the civilization of the Maya.

Author Biography

Stephen D. Houston is the Dupee Family Professor of Social Sciences at Brown University. The author of numerous books and articles, he is also an archaeologist who has excavated and mapped Classic Maya cities for more than twenty-five years. A MacArthur Fellow, Houston is also the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. Takeshi Inomata is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. He has conducted archaeological investigations at the Maya Center of Aguateca and at Ceibal in Guatemala. His numerous publications examine Maya political organization, warfare, architecture, households, and social change.

Table of Contents

List of Figuresp. ix
Prefacep. xiii
Setting
Introductionp. 3
Socialityp. 28
Beginningsp. 65
The Classic Periodp. 105
Social Actors
Kings and Queens, Courts and Palacesp. 131
Noblesp. 163
Gods, Supernaturals, and Ancestorsp. 193
Farmersp. 218
Craftspeople and Tradersp. 250
End of an Erap. 288
Epiloguep. 320
Referencesp. 323
Indexp. 377
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