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Lords of creation : the origins of sacred Maya kingship /

Title:
Lords of creation : the origins of sacred Maya kingship /
Author:
Fields, Virginia M.
Published:
London : Easthampton, MA ; 2005.
Format:
Book
Institution:
MassArt, Museum of Fine Arts
Contents:
Introduction: the first sacred kings of Mesoamerica / Virginia M. Fields with Dorie Reents-Budet -- Between heaven and earth : the civil cache and the creation of the Mesoamerican cosmos / Jeremy R. Bauer -- Olmec ideological, ritual, and symbolic contributions to the institution of classic Maya kingship / F. Kent Reilly -- Late preclassic expressions of authority on the Pacific slope / Julia Guernsey and Michael Love -- The principal bird deity in preclassic and early classic art / Constance Cortez -- Preclassic architecture, ritual, and the emergence of cultural complexity : a diachronic perspective from the Belize Valley / M. Kathryn Brown and James F. Garber -- The creation mountains : structure 5C-2nd and late preclassic kingship / David A. Freidel -- Precincts for gods and men : the architecture of the cities of the Peten, Guatemala / Juan Antonio Valdés -- Early social complexity and kingship in the Mirador basin / Richard D. Hansen and Stanley P. Guenter -- The sacred mountain : preclassical architecture in Calakmul / Ramón Carrasco Vargas -- Building a dynasty : early classic kingship at Copan / Ellen E. Bell -- Rosalila : temple of the Sun King at Copan / Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle -- The origins of Maya writing / Federico Fahsen and Nikolai Grube -- Strangers in the May area : early classic interaction with Teotihuacan / Rober J. Sharer and Simon Martin -- Dancing in the footsteps of the ancestors / Allen J. Christenson -- Catalogue / Virigna M. Fields and Dorie Reents-Budet.

Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
MassArt Main
F1435.3.A7 F54 2005Available
MFA Art of the Americas and Art of Europe Library
F1435.3.A7 F54 2005Available