Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity privileges art historical perspectives in addressing the ways the ancient Maya organized, manipulated, created, interacted with, and conceived of the world around them. The Maya provide a particularly strong example of the ways in which the built and imaged environment are intentionally oriented relative to political, religious, economic, and other spatial constructs.

In examining space, the contributors of this volume demonstrate the core interrelationships inherent in a wide variety of places and spaces, both concrete and abstract. They explore the links between spatial order and cosmic order and the possibility that such connections have sociopolitical consequences. This book will prove useful not just to Mayanists but to art historians in other fields and scholars from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, geography, and landscape architecture.

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Information

Publisher

University of New Mexico Press

Year

2015

ISBN

9780826355805

Topic

Art

Subtopic

History of Art

Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1: Imagery, Architecture, and Activity in the Maya World: An Introduction / Maline D. Werness-Rude and Kaylee R. Spencer
2: Aligning the Jester God: The Implications of Horizontality and Verticality in the Iconography of a Classic Maya Emblem / Penny Steinbach
3: Redefining God L: The Spatial Realm of a Maya “Earth Lord” / Michele M. Bernatz
4: Space Men Carving Out a Sense of Place in the Chocholá Style / Maline D. Werness-Rude
5: Public Spaces in the Ancient Maya City: A History / Flora Simmons Clancy
6: Locating Palenque’s Captive Portraits: Space, Identity, and Spectatorship in Classic Maya Art / Kaylee R. Spencer
7: Spaces of Transformation at Temple 1, Tikal, Guatemala / Elizabeth Drake Olton
8: The Shifting Spatial Nexus of an Urban Maya Landscape: A Case Study of Architecture, Sculpture, and Ceramics at Yo’okop / Linnea Wren, Travis Nygard, and Justine M. Shaw
9: The Ideal and the Symbolic: The Use of Shared Orientational Space in Contemporary Highland Maya Performance / Rhonda Taube
Epilogue: Portals, Turtles, and Mythic Places / Michael D. Carrasco
Contributors
Index
Back Cover