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Anthropomorphizing The Cosmos Middle Preclassic Lowland Maya Figurines Ritual And Time Prudence M Rice

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Anthropomorphizing The Cosmos Middle Preclassic Lowland Maya Figurines Ritual And Time Prudence M Rice
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Publisher: University Press of Colorado
File Extension: EPUB
File size: 2.21 MB
Author: Prudence M. Rice
ISBN: 9781607328896, 9781607328889, 1607328895, 1607328887
Language: English
Year: 2019

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Anthropomorphizing The Cosmos Middle Preclassic Lowland Maya Figurines Ritual And Time Prudence M Rice by Prudence M. Rice 9781607328896, 9781607328889, 1607328895, 1607328887 instant download after payment.

Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos explores the sociocultural significance of more than three hundred Middle Preclassic Maya figurines uncovered at the site of Nixtun-Ch'ich' on Lake Petén Itzá in northern Guatemala. In this careful, holistic, and detailed analysis of the Petén lakes figurines—hand-modeled, terracotta anthropomorphic fragments, animal figures, and musical instruments such as whistles and ocarinas—Prudence M. Rice engages with a broad swath of theory and comparative data on Maya ritual practice.
Presenting original data, Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos offers insight into the synchronous appearance of fired-clay figurines with the emergence of societal complexity in and beyond Mesoamerica. Rice situates these Preclassic Maya figurines in the broader context of Mesoamerican human figural representation, identifies possible connections between anthropomorphic figurine heads and the origins of calendrics and other writing in Mesoamerica, and examines the role of anthropomorphic figurines and zoomorphic musical instruments in Preclassic Maya ritual. The volume shows how community rituals involving the figurines helped to mitigate the uncertainties of societal transitions, including the beginnings of settled agricultural life, the emergence of social differentiation and inequalities, and the centralization of political power and decision-making in the Petén lowlands.
Literature on Maya ritual, cosmology, and specialized artifacts has traditionally focused on the Classic period, with little research centering on the very beginnings of Maya sociopolitical organization and ideological beliefs in the Middle Preclassic. Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos is a welcome contribution to the understanding of the earliest Maya and will be significant to Mayanists and Mesoamericanists as well as nonspecialists with interest in these early figurines.

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