Lords of creation : the origins of sacred Maya kingship / Virginia M. Fields and Dorie Reents-Budet ; with contributions by Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle ... [et al.].

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fields, Virginia M.
Corporate Authors:	Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Other Authors:	Reents-Budet, Dorie, Agurcia Fasquelle, Ricardo
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Los Angeles : Easthampton, MA : Scala ; In association with Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Distributed outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by Antique Collectors' Club, 2005.
Subjects:	Mayas > Kings and rulers > Exhibitions. Mayas > Rites and ceremonies > Exhibitions. Maya art > Exhibitions. Kings and rulers in art > Exhibitions. Mexico > Antiquities > Exhibitions. Central America > Antiquities > Exhibitions.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: the first sacred kings of Mesoamerica / Virginia M. Fields with Dorie Reents-Budet
Between heaven and earth: the cival cache and the creation of the Mesoamerican cosmos / Jeremy R. Bauer
Olmec ideological, ritual, and symbolic contributions to the institution of classic Maya kingship / F. Kent Reilly III
Late preclassic expressions of authority on the Pacific slope / Julia Guernsey and Michael Love
The principal bird deity in preclassic and early classic art / Constance Cortez
Preclassic architecture, ritual, and the emergence of cultural complexity: a diachronic perspective from the Belize Valley / M. Kathryn Brown and James F. Garber
The creation mountains: structure 5C-2nd and late preclassic kingship / David A. Freidel
Precincts for gods and men: the architecture of the cities of the Peten, Guatemala / Juan Antonio Valdés
Early social complexity and kingship in the Mirador Basin / Richard D. Hansen and Stanley P. Guenter
The sacred mountain: preclassic architecture in Calakmul / Ramón Carrasco Vargas
Building a dynasty: early classic kingship at Copan / Ellen E. Bell
Rosalila: temple of the sun king at Copan / Richardo Agurcia Fasquelle
The origins of Maya writing / Federico Fahsen and Nikolai Grube
Strangers in the Maya area: early classic interaction with Teotihuacan / Robert J. Sharer and Simon Martin
Dancing in the footsteps of the ancestors / Allen J. Christenson
Catalogue / Virginia M. Fields and Dorie Reents-Budet.

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