The Materialization of Time in the Ancient Maya World: Mythic History and Ritual Order (Maya Studies)
Language: English
Published by University Press of Florida, 2024
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- Title
- The Materialization of Time in the Ancient Maya World: Mythic History and Ritual Order (Maya Studies)
- Author
- Freidel, David A. & Arlen F. Chase Chase & Anne S. Dowd & Jerry Murdock
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Dust Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0813069807
- ISBN 13
- 9780813069807
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing.
- Seller catalogs
- All, Anthropology / Archeology, International History, NEW ARRIVALS
This book discusses the range of ways the ancient Maya people made time tangible through their architecture, arts, writing, beliefs, and practices. These chapters show how the Maya incorporated cyclicality and expanded dimensionality into the built environment, embedding notions of time in shared political and economic institutions, religious and philosophical traditions, and mythology.
Beginning several millennia ago, the Maya observed and calculated the solar year cycle and scheduled collective activities that integrated cities, towns, and villages over great distances. Their timekeeping approaches evolved from commemorative ceremonial architectural complexes starting around 1000 BCE to the formal public inscription of calendar jubilees on stone monuments, the use of calendar almanacs, written prophetic and historical accounts, and the customs of modern priest shamans. Contributors to this volume discuss everyday examples of how the Maya kept time through these practices, including divining with snail shells, laying out center designs with creation stories and star patterns, singing those stories while drinking from vases depicting mythic history, and embedding symbolic temporal deposits within their buildings and living areas.
This comprehensive volume includes analyses of groundbreaking recent discoveries, such as the early center of Aguada Fénix and the connections it shows between Maya and Olmec timekeeping. By sharing how the Maya crafted a cosmological sense of time into their daily lives, The Materialization of Time in the Ancient Maya World addresses and rethinks the most famous intellectual feature of this civilization.
A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
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About the Author
Arlen F. Chase is professor of comparative cultural studies at the University of Houston.
Anne S. Dowd is forest archaeologist, heritage program manager, and tribal liaison for the Ochoco National Forest and Crooked River National Grassland.
Jerry Murdock is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Santa Fe Institute and the Aspen Institute. Together, they are also the editors of Maya E Groups: Calendars, Astronomy, and Urbanism in the Early Lowlands.
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