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Maya Palaces and Elite Residences : An Interdisciplinary Approach / ed. by Jessica Joyce Christie.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian StudiesPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780292798601
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 972.81/016 21
LOC classification:
  • F1435.3.A6 M37 2003
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Elite Residences at Blue Creek, Belize -- Chapter Two. At Court in Copan -- Chapter Three. A Multipurpose Structure in the Late Classic Palace at Copan -- Chapter Four. Palaces of the Royal Court at Tikal -- Chapter Five. The Political Acquisition of Sacred Geography -- Chapter Six. Where Did Elites Live? -- Chapter Seven. Access Patterns in Maya Royal Precincts -- Chapter Eight. Evidence for the Functions and Meanings of Some Northern Maya Palaces -- Chapter Nine. The Function of a Maya Palace at Yaxuna -- Chapter Ten. Palace and Society in the Northern Maya Lowlands -- Chapter Eleven. The Tripartite Layout of Rooms in Maya Elite Residences -- Chapter Twelve. Conclusions -- Index
Summary: Maya "palaces" have intrigued students of this ancient Mesoamerican culture since the early twentieth century, when scholars first applied the term "palace" to multi-room, gallery-like buildings set on low platforms in the centers of Maya cities. Who lived in these palaces? What types of ceremonial and residential activities took place there? How do the physical forms and spatial arrangement of the buildings embody Maya concepts of social organization and cosmology? This book brings together state-of-the-art data and analysis regarding the occupants, ritual and residential uses, and social and cosmological meanings of Maya palaces and elite residences. A multidisciplinary team of senior researchers reports on sites in Belize (Blue Creek), Western Honduras (Copan), the Peten (Tikal, Dos Pilas, Aguateca), and the Yucatan (Uxmal, Chichen-Itza, Dzibilchaltun, Yaxuna). Archaeologist contributors discuss the form of palace buildings and associated artifacts, their location within the city, and how some palaces related to landscape features. Their approach is complemented by art historical analyses of architectural sculpture, epigraphy, and ethnography. Jessica Joyce Christie concludes the volume by identifying patterns and commonalties that apply not only to the cited examples, but also to Maya architecture in general.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Elite Residences at Blue Creek, Belize -- Chapter Two. At Court in Copan -- Chapter Three. A Multipurpose Structure in the Late Classic Palace at Copan -- Chapter Four. Palaces of the Royal Court at Tikal -- Chapter Five. The Political Acquisition of Sacred Geography -- Chapter Six. Where Did Elites Live? -- Chapter Seven. Access Patterns in Maya Royal Precincts -- Chapter Eight. Evidence for the Functions and Meanings of Some Northern Maya Palaces -- Chapter Nine. The Function of a Maya Palace at Yaxuna -- Chapter Ten. Palace and Society in the Northern Maya Lowlands -- Chapter Eleven. The Tripartite Layout of Rooms in Maya Elite Residences -- Chapter Twelve. Conclusions -- Index

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Maya "palaces" have intrigued students of this ancient Mesoamerican culture since the early twentieth century, when scholars first applied the term "palace" to multi-room, gallery-like buildings set on low platforms in the centers of Maya cities. Who lived in these palaces? What types of ceremonial and residential activities took place there? How do the physical forms and spatial arrangement of the buildings embody Maya concepts of social organization and cosmology? This book brings together state-of-the-art data and analysis regarding the occupants, ritual and residential uses, and social and cosmological meanings of Maya palaces and elite residences. A multidisciplinary team of senior researchers reports on sites in Belize (Blue Creek), Western Honduras (Copan), the Peten (Tikal, Dos Pilas, Aguateca), and the Yucatan (Uxmal, Chichen-Itza, Dzibilchaltun, Yaxuna). Archaeologist contributors discuss the form of palace buildings and associated artifacts, their location within the city, and how some palaces related to landscape features. Their approach is complemented by art historical analyses of architectural sculpture, epigraphy, and ethnography. Jessica Joyce Christie concludes the volume by identifying patterns and commonalties that apply not only to the cited examples, but also to Maya architecture in general.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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