Maya political relations and stategies
Subtitle: proceedings of the 14th European Maya Conference, Cracow, November 9-14, 2009
By: edited by Jarosław Źrałka, Wiesław Koszkul and Beata Golińska
Contributors: Traxler, Loa P.; Źrałka, Jarosław; Koszkul, Wiesław; Golińska, Beata; Sharer, Robert J.; Traxler, Loa P.; Doyle, James A. (James Alan), 1983 February 6-; Doyle, James A. (James Alan), 1983 February 6-; Polska Akademia Umiejętności; Uniwersytet Jagielloński. Instytut Archeologii
Series: Contributions in New World archaeology -- v. 4; Contributions in New World archaeology -- v. 4.
Publisher: [Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences; Jagiellonian University, Institute of Archaeology]
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Kraków
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Mayas; Congresses; Politics and government; Antiquities; Indians of Central America
Notes: At head of title: Jagiellonian University, Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and European Association of Mayanists (WAYEB).

"Special issue."

"To the memory of Robert J. Sharer (1940-2012)."

Includes bibliographical references.

Papers in English or Spanish, with abstracts in both languages.
Table of contents: title: Evocar la grandeza maya  -- Gabriel Aguilera Peralta -- Part 1. Archaeology and epigraphy; title: Statements of identity : emblem glyphs in the nexus of political relations  -- Sven Gronemeyer; title: El reino de la serpiente bajo la mirada de sus aliados  -- Christophe Helmke & Jaime Awe; title: A glimpse from Edzna's hieroglyphics : Middle, Late and Terminal Classic processes of cultural interaction between the southern, northern, and western lowlands  -- Carlos Pallán Gayol; title: El papel de Sihyaj K'ahk' en Uaxactun y el Petén Central  -- Milan Kováč & Ramzy R. Barrois; title: A paleographic approach to political change using Classic Maya day sign variants  -- James A. Doyle; title: Copan and Quirigua : shifting destinies in the southeastern Maya lowlands  -- Robert J. Sharer & Loa P. Traxler; title: All of a piece : the politics of growth and collapse in Classic Maya kingdoms  -- Charles Golden & Andrew K. Scherer; title: Nakum and Yaxha during the Termincal Classic period : external relations and strategies of survival at the time of the collapse  -- Bernard Hermes & Jarosław Źrałka; title: Relaciones y estrategias políticas entre El Tajín y diversas entidades mayas durante el siglo IX d.C.  -- Arturo Pascual Soto & Erik Velásquez García -- Part 2. Ethnohistory and ethnology; title: El cúuchcabal de los Xiu : análisis de su formación y consolidación  -- Tsubasa Okoshi Harada; title: Back to the future for predicting the past : Cuchcabal -- Batabil -- Cuchteel and May ritual political structures across archaeological landscapes, in ethnohistoric texts, and through cosmological time  -- Lorraine A. Williams-Beck, Bodil Liljefors Persson, & Armando Anaya Hernández; title: El Sawarik o Amanecer como ritual de fundación descrito en los documentos históricos k'iche y kaqchikeles -- Iyaxel Ixkan A. Cojtí Ren.