Lords of creation
Subtitle: the origins of sacred Maya kingship
By: Virginia M. Fields and Dorie Reents-Budet ; with contributions by Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle ... [et al.].
Contributors: Reents-Budet, Dorie.; Agurcia Fasquelle, Ricardo.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art.; Dallas Museum of Art.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Scala; In association with Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Maya -- Kings and rulers -- Exhibitions; Maya -- Rites and ceremonies -- Exhibitions; Maya art -- Exhibitions; Kings and rulers in art -- Exhibitions; Mexico -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions; Central America -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sept. 10, 2005-Jan. 2, 2006; Dallas Museum of Art, Feb. 12-May 7, 2006; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 11-Sept. 10, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-280) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the first sacred kings of Mesoamerica / Virginia M Fields with Dorie Reents-Budet; title: Between heaven and earth: the cival cache and the creation of the Mesoamerican cosmos / Jeremy R. Bauer; title: Olmec ideological, ritual, and symbolic contributions to the institution of classic Maya kingship / F. Kent Reilly III; title: Late preclassic expressions of authority on the Pacific slope / Julia Guernsey and Michael Love; title: The principal bird deity in preclassic and early classic art / Constance Cortez; title: Preclassic architecture, ritual, and the emergence of cultural complexity: a diachronic perspective from the Belize Valley / M Kathryn Brown and James F. Garber; title: The creation mountains: structure 5C-2nd and late preclassic kingship / David A Freidel; title: Precincts for gods and men: the architecture of the cities of the Peten, Guatemala / Juan Antonio Valdés; title: Early social complexity and kingship in the Mirador Basin / Richard D Hansen and Stanley P Guenter; title: The sacred mountain: preclassic architecture in Calakmul / Ramón Carrasco Vargas; title: Building a dynasty: early classic kingship at Copan / Ellen E Bell; title: Rosalila: temple of the sun king at Copan / Richardo Agurcia Fasquelle; title: The origins of Maya writing / Federico Fahsen and Nikolai Grube; title: Strangers in the Maya area: early classic interaction with Teotihuacan / Robert J Sharer and Simon Martin; title: Dancing in the footsteps of the ancestors / Allen J Christenson; title: Catalogue / Virginia M Fields and Dorie Reents-Budet.