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024	7		_a10.7560/702615 _2doi
035			_a(DE-B1597)9780292797383
035			_a(DE-B1597)587138
040			_aDE-B1597 _beng _cDE-B1597 _erda
050		4	_aF1435.3.P7R5 2004
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082	0	4	_a320.97281 _222
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aRice, Prudence M. _eautore
245	1	0	_aMaya Political Science : _bTime, Astronomy, and the Cosmos / / _cPrudence M. Rice.
264		1	_aAustin : : _bUniversity of Texas Press, _c[2009]
264		4	_c©2004
300			_a1 online resource (376 p.) : _b82 figures, 16 tables
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
490	0		_aThe Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tPreface -- _tNote on Orthography and Dates -- _tAcknowledgments -- _t1. Introduction: Approaches to Maya Political Organization -- _t2. Previous Reconstructions of Classic Maya Political Organization -- _t3. Maya Politico-Religious Calendrics -- _t4. Tikal as Early Seat of the May -- _t5. Tikal's Late and Terminal Classic Seating of the May -- _t6. Other Classic Period May-based Realms -- _t7. New Terminal Classic May Realms -- _t8. Implications of the May Model -- _t9. Conclusion -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aHow did the ancient Maya rule their world? Despite more than a century of archaeological investigation and glyphic decipherment, the nature of Maya political organization and political geography has remained an open question. Many debates have raged over models of centralization versus decentralization, superordinate and subordinate status-with far-flung analogies to emerging states in Europe, Asia, and Africa. But Prudence Rice asserts that neither the model of two giant "superpowers" nor that which postulates scores of small, weakly independent polities fits the accumulating body of material and cultural evidence. In this groundbreaking book, Rice builds a new model of Classic lowland Maya (AD 179-948) political organization and political geography. Using the method of direct historical analogy, she integrates ethnohistoric and ethnographic knowledge of the Colonial-period and modern Maya with archaeological, epigraphic, and iconographic data from the ancient Maya. On this basis of cultural continuity, she constructs a convincing case that the fundamental ordering principles of Classic Maya geopolitical organization were the calendar (specifically a 256-year cycle of time known as the may) and the concept of quadripartition, or the division of the cosmos into four cardinal directions. Rice also examines this new model of geopolitical organization in the Preclassic and Postclassic periods and demonstrates that it offers fresh insights into the nature of rulership, ballgame ritual, and warfare among the Classic lowland Maya.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023)
650		0	_aMayas _xAntiquities.
650		0	_aMayas _xHistory.
650		0	_aMayas _xPolitics and government.
650		4	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / General _2sh.
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.7560/702615
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292797383
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292797383/original
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