Places of power and memory in Mesoamerica's past and present
Subtitle: how sites, toponyms and landscapes shape history and remembrance
By: Daniel Graña-Behrens (ed.).
Series: Estudios Indiana -- 9
Publisher: Gebr. Mann Verlag
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9783786127666
Subjects: Cultural geography; Cultural landscapes; Mayan languages; Writing; Mayas; Antiquities; Indians of Central America; Indians of Mexico; Geographical Names; Collective memory
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Contributions in English with abstracts in English and Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Places of power and memory in Mesoamerica's past and present : how sites, toponyms and landscapes shape history and remembrance / Daniel Graña-Behrens; title: Where snakes abound : supernatural places of origin and founding myths in the titles of classic Maya kings / Christophe Helmke and Felix Kupprat; title: The linguistics of toponymy in Maya hierolgyphic writing / Sven Gronemeyer; title: Emblem glyphs in classic Maya inscriptions : from single to double ones as a means of place of origin, memory and diaspora / Péter Biró; title: Myth and model : the pattern of migration, settlement, and reclamation of land in central Mexico and Oaxaca / Viola König; title: Searching for the sanctuary of Lady 9 Reed : Huajuapan, ring of stones / Angel Iván Rivera Guzmán, Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen and Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez; title: The ascension of Mount Coatepetl by Coyolxauhqui and the Centzon Huitznahua : a temple made of words / Patrick Johansson; title: History, tradition, myth and territory in a Nahua village (Guerrero, Mexico) / Ethelia Ruiz Medrano; title: Materiality and community in the Mixteca / John Monaghan.