Time Among the Maya
Title | Time Among the Maya PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Wright |
Publisher | Grove Press |
Total Pages | 468 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780802137289 |
The Maya created one of the world's most brilliant civilizations, famous for its art, astronomy, and deep fascination with the mystery of time. Despite collapse in the ninth century, Spanish invasion in the sixteenth, and civil war in the twentieth, eight million people in Guatemala, Belize, and southern Mexico speak Mayan languages and maintain their resilient culture to this day. Traveling through Central America's jungles and mountains, Ronald Wright explores the ancient roots of the Maya, their recent troubles, and prospects for survival. Embracing history, anthropology, politics, and literature, Time Among the Maya is a riveting journey through past magnificence and the study of an enduring civilization with much to teach the present. "Wright's unpretentious narrative blends anthropology, archaeology, history, and politics with his own entertaining excursions and encounters." -- The New Yorker; "Time Among the Maya shows Wright to be far more than a mere storyteller or descriptive writer. He is an historical philosopher with a profound understanding of other cultures." -- Jan Morris, The Independent (London).
The Ancient Maya
Title | The Ancient Maya PDF eBook |
Author | Jackie Maloy |
Publisher | C. Press/F. Watts Trade |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780531241103 |
Provides information about the ancient Maya, discussing farming, daily life, beliefs, and other related topics.
The Maya: A Very Short Introduction
Title | The Maya: A Very Short Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Restall |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 160 |
Release | 2020-09-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190645040 |
The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya communities built spectacular cities with large, well-fed large populations. They mastered the visual arts, and developed a sophisticated writing system that recorded extraordinary knowledge in calendrics, mathematics, and astronomy. The Maya achieved all this without area-wide centralized control. 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; yet something definable, unique, and endlessly fascinating - what we call Maya culture - has clearly existed for millennia. So what was their self-identity and how did Maya civilization come to be "invented?" With the Maya historically subdivided and misunderstood in so many ways, the pursuit of what made them "the Maya" is all the more important. In this Very Short Introduction, Restall and Solari explore the themes of Maya identity, city-state political culture, art and architecture, the Maya concept of the cosmos, and the Maya experience of contact with including invasion by outsiders. Despite its brevity, this book is unique for its treatment of all periods of Maya civilization, from its origins to the present.
The Popol Vuh
Title | The Popol Vuh PDF eBook |
Author | Lewis Spence |
Publisher | New York : AMS Press |
Total Pages | 80 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
Lost Kingdoms of the Maya
Title | Lost Kingdoms of the Maya PDF eBook |
Author | Gene S. Stuart |
Publisher | American Society of Civil Engineers |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Splendid color photos overshadow the text. No references. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Popol Vuh
Title | Popol Vuh PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780888999214 |
Mayan civilization once flourished in what is today Guatemala and the Yucatan. The Mayan sacred book the Popol Vuh tells of the creation of the universe, the world of gods and demi-gods and the creation of mankind.
Tikal
Title | Tikal PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Mann |
Publisher | Mikaya Press |
Total Pages | 24 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 193141405X |
A history of the Maya Indians in the city of Tikal, founded in 800 B.C.