Title: Word and image in Maya culture :
Authors: Hanks, William F.; Rice, Don S.
Date: 1989
Publisher: University of Utah Press,
Physical description: 385 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language: English
LC classification: F
Contents: Historical contexts and interpretive themes / Don S. Rice -- Word and image in a semiotic perspective / William F. Hanks -- The representational conventions of Mayan hieroglyphic writing / John S. Justeson -- The last gasp of Maya hieroglyphic writing in the Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel and Chan Kan / Victoria R. Bricker -- The morphosyntactic basis of discourse structure in glyphic text in the Dresden Codex / Charles A. Hofling -- The names of a king : hieroglyphic variants as a key to decipherment / Floyd Lounsbury -- Elements of Maya style / William F. Hanks -- The 819-day-count : a soulful mechanism / Barbara MacLeod -- Twin gods and quiche rulers : the relation between divine power and kingly rule in the Popul Vuh / Carol Hendrickson -- Olmec vessel with a crayfish icon : an early rebus / Brian Stross. The preclassic origins of Maya writing : a Highland perspective / Robert J. Sharer -- Comparing Maya image and text / Arthur G. Miller -- Narrative in classic Maya art / Dorie Reents-Budet -- Transformations : relationships between image and text in the ceramic paintings of the metropolitan master / Marvin Cohodas -- Dead kings and living temples : dedication and termination rituals among the ancient Maya / David A. Freidel and Linda Schele -- The dynastic history of Naranjo : the late period / Michael P. Closs -- Builders of Tikal : archaeology and history / Christopher Jones -- Jaguar and serpent foot : iconography as astronomy / Arthur Schlak -- Construction and cosmology : politics and ideology in lowland Maya settlement patterns / Wendy Ashmore. Star warriors at Chichen Itza / Virginia E. Miller -- Reptiles and rulership : a stylistic analysis of Peten postclassic pottery / Prudence M. Rice -- The painted walls of Xibalba : Maya cave painting as evidence of cave ritual / Andrea Stone -- Yucatec sacred breads through time / Bruce Love -- Ritual humor in classic Maya religion / Karl Taube.
Subject headings (LCSH): Maya art.; Mayan languages--Writing.; Mayan languages.