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The Maya: A Very Short Introduction [#656]
The Maya: A Very Short Introduction [#656]
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私たちは地域や言語、時代区分により細分化できる社会・文化領域を数千年に亘ってひとまとめに「マヤ文明」としています。地域ごとに民族や地域言語の異なる無数の小都市が分立するような社会ながら、マヤ人は石造建築の技術を持って都市を建設し、複雑な農業を行い、高い芸術性を持って文字・書記体系を高度に発達させ、暦や数学、天体観測などの知識を書き記しました。マヤ人の自己同一性、政治機構あるいは政治風土と呼べるもの、そして世界観といったテーマに挑みます。
  

  • A rare packaging of all Maya history from origins to the present
  • Takes a multidisciplinary approach to study of the Maya people, including literature, religion, and archaeology
  • Expands traditional periodization of Mayan history to explore more historical nuance

  
The Maya forged the greatest society in the history of the ancient Americas, and one of the great societies in human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya communities built spectacular cities, created complex agricultural systems, mastered the visual arts, and developed a sophisticated writing system that recorded extraordinary knowledge in calendrics, mathematics, and astronomy. All that was achieved without area-wide centralized control. For there was never a single, unified Maya state or empire, but always numerous, evolving ethnic groups speaking dozens of distinct Mayan languages. The people we call "Maya" never thought of themselves as such; so what was their self-identity and how did Maya civilization come to be "invented"? Yet something definable, unique, and endlessly fascinating-what we call Maya culture-has clearly existed for millennia.
      
With the Maya subdivided in so many ways-geographical, linguistic, and chronological-the pursuit of what made the Maya "the Maya" is all the more important. In this Very Short Introduction, Restall and Solari explore the themes of Mayan self-identity, polity or city-state political culture, and cosmovision and the world beyond.

目次: 

Chapter 1 Maya Genesis
Chapter 2 The Divine King
Chapter 3 The Writing Rabbit
Chapter 4 A Day in the Life
Chapter 5 Maya "Mysteries"
Chapter 6 Conquests
Chapter 7 Colonizations
Further Reading
Index

著者について: 

Matthew Restall, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Anthropology, Penn State Univetsity, and Amara Solari, Associate Professor of Art History and Anthropology, Penn State Univetsity
  
Matthew Restall was educated at Oxford and UCLA. He is now Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Anthropology, and Director of Latin American Studies, at Penn State University. A recent president of the American Society for Ethnohistory, he edits the Hispanic American Historical Review and book series with Cambridge University and Penn State presses. His one hundred publications on three fields of Latin American history-Yucatan and the Maya; Africans in Spanish America; and the Spanish Conquest-include The Maya World; Maya Conquistador; Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest; The Black Middle; 2012 and the End of the World; The Conquistadors; and When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting Than Changed History. His forthcoming books include histories of the Maya town of Ixil and of early Belize. 
  
Amara Solari was educated at the University of California at Berkeley and at Santa Barbara. She is now Associate Professor of Art History and Anthropology at Penn State University. She is the author of three books, 2012 and the End of the World: The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse (co-authored with Matthew Restall in 2011), Maya Ideologies of the Sacred: The Transfiguration of Space in Colonial Yucatan (2013), and the forthcoming Idolizing Mary: Maya-Christian Icons in Early Modern Yucatán (2019). She has published in The Art Bulletin, Ethnohistory, and the Hispanic American Historical Review of which she is currently a senior editor. Her latest book project is a material, iconographic, and spatial study of the extant corpus of Maya Christian murals in Yucatan.

商品情報

ISBN : 9780190645021

著者: 
Matthew Restall; Amara Solari
ページ
152 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
111 x 174 mm
刊行日
2020年10月
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The Maya: A Very Short Introduction [#656]

The Maya: A Very Short Introduction [#656]

The Maya: A Very Short Introduction [#656]