The sacred and the profane
Subtitle: architecture and identity in the Maya Lowlands
By: 3rd European Maya Conference, University of Hamburg, November 1998 ; Pierre Robert Colas ... [et al.] (editors).
Contributors: Colas, Pierre Robert.
Series: Acta Mesoamericana ;; v. 10
Publisher: A. Saurwein
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Markt Schwaben, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Maya architecture -- Congresses.; Mayas -- Ethnic identity -- Congresses.; Mayas -- Rites and ceremonies -- Congresses.; Mayan languages -- Writing -- Congresses.; Mexico -- Antiquities -- Congresses.; Central America -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Architecture and identity in the Maya Lowlands
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The transformation of Xbalanque / Justin Kerr; title: The classic Maya accession ceremony as a rite of passage / Geneviève Le Fort; title: An alternative view on the meaning and function of structure 10L-22a, Copán, Honduras / Elisabeth Wagner; title: At the periphery : the movement, modification and re-use of early monuments in the environs of Tikal / Simon Martin; title: Wuk Tsuk and Oxlahun Tsuk : Naranjo and Tikal in the late Classic / Dmitri Beliaev; title: Tok' and Tok : two examples of rebus writing in Maya script / Pierre Robert Colas; title: Fire rituals in the context of classic Maya initial series / Nikolai Grube; title: Nominal syntax and the linguistic affiliation of Classic Maya texts / Alfonso Lacadena; title: Early political appropriation of the sacred landscape / James E. Brady; title: The cave as a cosmogram : function and meaning of Maya speleothem use / Holley Moyes; title: K'ak'-u-pakal, Hun-pik-tok' and the Kokom : the political organization of Chichén Itzá / Alexander W. Voss, H. Juergen Kremer; title: Architecture and identity in the northern Maya Lowlands : the temple of K'uk'ulkan at Chich'en Itsa, Yucatan, Mexico / Erik Boot; title: The northwestern Yucatan Peninsula Postclassic Maya : new perspectives from archaeology and ethnohistory in Campeche / Lorraine A. Williams-Beck.