Proceedings of the 1995 and 1996 Latin American Symposia
Subtitle: "Death, burial, and the afterlife" "Landscapes and mindscapes of the ancient Maya"
By: edited by Alana Cordy-Collins and Grace Johnson ; with contributions by Tom Davies ... [et al.].
Contributors: Cordy-Collins, Alana.; Johnson, Grace.; Davies, Thomas M.; Latin American Symposium (1996 : San Diego, Calif.)
Series: San Diego Museum papers -- no. 34
Publisher: San Diego Museum of Man
Published: 1997
Place of publication: San Diego, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9780937808702
Subjects: Indians of South America -- Funeral customs and rites -- Peru -- Congresses.; Indians of Central America -- Funeral customs and rites -- Congresses.; Mayas -- Funeral customs and rites -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Death, burial, and the afterlife.; Landscapes and mindscapes of the ancient Maya.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I, Death, burial, and the afterlife: Ritual or allegorical death in the Andes / Tom Davies and Rosemarie Adele Davies. "The dead are coming" : Mixtec day of the dead and the cultivation of community / Bonnie Blade. Palaces of the dead : glimpses of the afterlife from a middle preclassic cave ossuary / James E. Brady; title: Pt. II, Landscapes and mindscapes of the ancient Maya: Sculpture and performance at Quiriguá / Matthew G. Looper. North Central Honduras : a Maya landscape? / Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett ... [et al.]. Sculptors and style at Piedras Negras, Guatemala / John Montgomery. Triangles of love : a case history from eigth century Tikal / Peter Harrison. A classic Maya lord's atole bowl : a pre-Columbian Chocholá style vessel with hieroglyphic text / Judith Strupp Green. In search of a myth : enigmatic calendric glyphs at Quiriguá / Janis Indrikis.