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Ancient Maya Political Dynamics

by Antonia E. Foias

~~37,10€~~ 33,39€ 10% OFF

 An exploration, using research from the Maya site Motul de San Jose in Guatemala, of how political structures and dynamics have been examined by political anthropologists and archaeologists over the last century.
Lacandon Maya In The Twenty-First Century - Indigenous Knowledge And Conservation In Mexico''S Tropical Rainforest

by James D. Nations

46,38€ + 10% CARD

 Drawing on his 49 years of studying and learning from the Lacandon Maya, James Nations discusses how in the midst of external pressures such as technological changes, missionary influences, and logging ventures, Lacandon communities are building an economic system of agroforestry and ecotourism.
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Peru-Waka' - New Archaeological Perspectives On The Kingdom Of The Centipede

~~238,50€~~ 214,65€ 10% OFF

 Presents the most current research on the ancient Maya city El Peru-Wakaâ€™, or â€˜Kingdom of the Centipede.â€™ Located in the Laguna del Tigre National Park of Guatemala, this city has been a major focus of recent archaeological inquiry, which has uncovered a long occupation at the site spanning from 300 BC to 1000 CE.
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Justice Pursued - The Exoneration Of Nathan Myers And Clifford Williams

by Bruce Horovitz

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 Offers an in-depth look at the reversal of a wrongful conviction in a noteworthy example of the justice system seeking to correct mistakes of the past. Journalist Bruce Horovitz describes in detail the events of the murder of Jeanette Williams and the one-sided trial, conviction, and life sentencing of Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams.
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The Architecture Of James Gamble Rogers Ii In Winter Park, Florida

by Debra Mcclane e Patrick Mcclane

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 This well-illustrated book illuminates the life and career of one of Floridaâ€™s premier architects, whose elegant homes and design aesthetic shaped the architectural character of Winter Park and influenced urban development throughout central Florida.
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Mickey And The Teamsters - A Fight For Fair Unions At Disney

by Mike Schneider

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 Behind the costumes, life isnâ€™t always magic and fairy dust for the people who play the iconic characters of Mickey Mouse, Goofy, and Cinderella at Walt Disney World. In a surprising tale of corruption alongside activism, this book reveals the little-known story of Teamsters Local 385, the union that represents these performers.
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A Punkhouse In The Deep South - The Oral History Of 309

by Aaron Cometbus e Scott Satterwhite

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 Told in personal interviews, this is the collective story of a punk community in an unlikely town and region, a hub of radical counterculture that drew artists and musicians from throughout the conservative South and earned national renown.
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Market For Mesoamerica - Reflections On The Sale Of Pre-Columbian Antiquities

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 The theft of cultural heritage items from their places of origin is a topic of intense contemporary discussion, and The Market for Mesoamerica updates our knowledge of this issue by presenting undocumented and illicit antiquities within a regional and global context.
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Pathways To Complexity - A View From The Maya Lowlands

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 Pathways to Complexity synthesizes a wealth of new archaeological data to illuminate the origins of Maya civilization and the rise of Classic Maya culture. In this volume, prominent Maya scholars argue that the development of social, religious, and economic complexity began during the Middle Preclassic period (1000-300 B.C.), hundreds of years earlier than previously thought.Contributors reveal that villages were present in parts of the lowlands by 1000 B.C., challenging the prevailing models estimating when civilization took root in the area. Combining recent discoveries from the northern lowlands—an area often neglected in other volumes—and the southern lowlands, the collection then traces the emergence of sociopolitical inequality and complexity in all parts of the Yucatan peninsula over the course of the Middle Preclassic period. They show that communities evolved in different ways due to influences such as geographical location, ceramic exchange, shell ornament production, agricultural strategy, religious ritual, ideology, and social rankings. These varied pathways to complexity developed over half a millennium and culminated in the institution of kingship by the Late Preclassic period.Presenting exciting work on a dynamic and poorly understood time period, Pathways to Complexity demonstrates the importance of a broad, comparative approach to understanding Preclassic Maya civilization and will serve as a foundation for future research and interpretation.Contributors: M. Kathryn Brown | George Bey III | Tara Bond-Freeman | Fernando Robles Castellanos | Tomas Gallareta Negron | E. Wyllys Andrews V | Anthony Andrews | David S. Anderson | Lauren Sullivan | Jaime J. Awe | James F. Garber | Mary Jane Acuña | William Saturno | Bobbi Hohmann | Terry Powis | Paul Healy | Richard Hansen | Donald W. Forsyth | David Freidel | Barbara Arroyo | Richard E. W. AdamsA volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
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War Owl Falling - Innovation, Creativity, And Culture Change In Ancient Maya Society

by Markus Eberl

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 An archaeological exploration of the role of creativity and invention in the ancient Maya civilizationDrawing on archaeological findings from the Maya lowlands, War Owl Falling shows how innovation and creativity led to social change in ancient societies. Markus Eberl discusses the ways eighth-century Maya (and Maya commoners in particular) reinvented objects and signs that were associated with nobility, including scepters, ceramic vessels, ballgame equipment, and the symbol of the owl. These innovations, he argues, reflect assertions of independence and a redistribution of power that contributed to the Maya collapse in the Late Classic period. Eberl emphasizes that decision-making—the ability to imagine alternate worlds and to act on that vision—plays a large role in changing social structure over time. Contextualizing these decisions in his "Garden of Forking Paths" model, Eberl shows how innovators were those individuals who imagined an array of possible futures and negotiated power to reach desirable outcomes. He dissects the social underpinning of Maya creativity by illustrating their situated method of learning via observation and imitation, stressing that societal constraints or opportunities dictated whether members’ ideas were realized. Pinpointing where and when Maya inventions emerged, how individuals adopted them and why, War Owl Falling connects technological and social change in a novel way. A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
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Maya Christians And Their Churches In Sixteenth-Century Belize

by Elizabeth Graham

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 Based on her analysis of archaeological evidence from the excavations of Maya churches at Tipu and Lamanai, Elizabeth Graham seeks to understand why the Maya sometimes actively embraced Catholicism during the period of European conquest and continued to worship in this way even after the end of Spanish occupation.
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Florida Scrub-Jay - Field Notes On A Vanishing Bird

by Mark Jerome Walters

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 The only bird species that lives exclusively in Florida, the Florida Scrub-Jay was once common across the peninsula. But as development has reduced its habitat, the species has become endangered. With an explorer's spirit, Mark Walters travels the state to report on the natural history and current predicament of Florida's flagship bird.
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Ritual, Violence, And The Fall Of The Classic Maya Kings

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 Maya kings who failed to ensure the prosperity of their kingdoms were subject to various forms of termination, including the ritual defacing and destruction of monuments and even violent death. This is the first comprehensive volume to focus on the varied responses to the failure of Classic period dynasties in the southern lowlands. The contributors offer new insights into the Maya "collapse," evaluating the trope of the scapegoat king and the demise of the traditional institution of kingship in the early ninth century AD--a time of intense environmental, economic, social, political, and even ideological change.
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War Owl Falling - Innovation, Creativity, And Culture Change In Ancient Maya Society

by Markus Eberl

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 An archaeological exploration of the role of creativity and invention in the ancient Maya civilization. Markus Eberl discusses the ways eighth-century Maya (and Maya commoners in particular) reinvented objects and signs that were associated with nobility, including scepters, ceramic vessels, ballgame equipment, and the symbol of the owl.
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Archaeology And Ethnohistory Of Iximche

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 Conquered by the Spanish in 1524, IximchÃ© was the capital of the Cakchiquel Maya in Highland Guatemala. This book reconstructs the history of IximchÃ© based on analyses of ceramics and human skeletal remains, on Guilleminâ€™s original excavation notes, drawings and photographs, and on the ethnohistorical literature.
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Maya E Groups - Calendars, Astronomy, And Urbanism In The Early Lowlands

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 Presents new archaeological data to reveal that E Groups were constructed earlier than previously thought. In fact, they are the earliest identifiable architectural plan at many Maya settlements.
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El Peru-Waka' - New Archaeological Perspectives On The Kingdom Of The Centipede

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 Presents the most current research on the ancient Maya city El Peru-Wakaâ€™, or â€˜Kingdom of the Centipede.â€™ Located in the Laguna del Tigre National Park of Guatemala, this city has been a major focus of recent archaeological inquiry, which has uncovered a long occupation at the site spanning from 300 BC to 1000 CE.
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The Market For Mesoamerica - Reflections On The Sale Of Pre-Columbian Antiquities

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 Explores past, current, and future policies and trends concerning the sales and illicit movement of artifacts from Mesoamerica to museums and private collections. Informed by the fields of anthropology, economics, law, and criminology, contributors critically analyse practices of research and collecting in Central American countries.
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Indigenizing Archaeology - Putting Theory Into Practice

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 Highlights early-career Indigenous scholars conducting research in North America who are advancing the growing paradigm of archaeological study done with, by, and for members of Native-descendant communities.
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Justice Pursued - The Exoneration Of Nathan Myers And Clifford Williams

by Bruce Horovitz

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 Offers an in-depth look at the reversal of a wrongful conviction in a noteworthy example of the justice system seeking to correct mistakes of the past. Journalist Bruce Horovitz describes in detail the events of the murder of Jeanette Williams and the one-sided trial, conviction, and life sentencing of Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams.
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The Archaeology Of Modern Worlds In The Indian Ocean

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 Case studies that show the importance of the Indian Ocean region to the emergence of modernity and globalization. This volume brings together a diverse range of specialists working in multiple areas of the Indian Ocean world, providing broad geographical coverage and comparisons across sites.
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Underwater And Coastal Archaeology In Latin America

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 Diverse case studies that explore the relationship between humans and water environments to showcase Latin America in a new way. This volume features a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to underwater and coastal archaeology across the region.
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Travels On The St. Johns River

by John Bartram e William Bartram

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 Presents a selection of writings from naturalists John and William Bartram. In 1765 father and son naturalists John and William Bartram explored the St. Johns River Valley in Florida, a newly designated British territory and subtropical wonderland. The chronicle of their adventures provided the world with an intimate look at La Florida.
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Developing The Dead - Mediumship And Selfhood In Cuban Espiritismo

by Diana Espirito Santo

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 Studies the relationships cultivated by mediums between the living and the dead. Based on extensive fieldwork among espiritistas and their patrons in Havana, this book makes the surprising claim that Spiritist practices are fundamentally a project of developing the self.
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