The Bricker almanac
Subtitle: a festschrift in honor of Harvey and Victoria Bricker
By: edited by Gabrielle Vail, Timothy Knowlton, Markus Eberl
Contributors: Bricker, Victoria Reifler, 1940-
Edition: Rev. ed.
Series: Human mosaic -- v. 36, no. 1
Publisher: Dept. of Anthropology, Tulane University
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Orleans
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: Mayan languages; Writing; Maya mythology; Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian); Archaeology; Ethnology
Other titles: Festschrift in honor of Harvey and Victoria Bricker
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Living under stars : preface to the "Bricker almanac" / Gabrielle Vail, Timothy Knowlton, Markus Eberl; title: Curriculum vitae of Harvey M. Bricker; title: Curriculum vitae of Victoria R. Bricker.; title: Pt. 1. Personal essays; title: On the occasion of a dinner celebrating Harvey and Vicki Bicker's contributions to Tulane University / E. Wyllys Andrews V.; title: Harvey and Victoria Bricker : partners in sleuthing Maya time / Barbara Edmonson; title: Jun túul tso' ma' p'éep'abi' "One Tom Turkey not plucked" / Ema D. Uhu de Pech.; title: Pt. 2. Archaeological studies; title: Hunting and animal exploitation in the Upper French Palaeolithic / Gail Larsen Peterkin; title: The long and short of prismatic blades / Dan M. Healan.; title: Pt. 3. Linguistic and ethnographic studies; title: Historical changes in Yoruba names / Ọlanika Ọla Orie; title: Red, white, black : finitude and the cultural response / James Houk; title: Changing continuities : reflections on "structure" and the work of Victoria Reifler Bricker / Edward F. Fischer; title: At play in Chomula Tzotzil / Gary H. Gossen; title: A note on the Mayan sky through time and space / Judith M. Maxwell; title: 'U hahil ca than yalan juramentoil' : Maya scribes, colonial literacy, and Maya peitionary forms in colonia Yucatán / John F. Chuchiak, IV; title: From Old World ideogram to Maya hieroglyph : a case study of writing systems in a colonial context / Timothy Knowlton. Pt. 4. Mesoamerican manuscript studies; title: Is the Codex Laud complete? / Elizabeth Hill Boone; title: Periodicity in the Dresden codex Venus table / Sonny Faulseit; title: Using astronomical imagery to cross-date an almana in the Borgia codex / Christine Hernández; title: "Real time" in Maya almanacs : perspectives from the Madrid codex / Gabrielle Vail; title: The sky in Mayan literature : recognizing the contributions of Victoria and Harvey Bricker / Anthony F. Aveni.