Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path - Couverture rigide

Freidel, David A.; Schele, Linda; Parker, Joy

 
9780688100810: Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path

Synopsis

Freidel, David. Schele, Linda. Parker, Joy. Maya Cosmos - Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path. Photographs by Justin Kerr & MacDuff Everton. First Edition. New York, William Morrow and Company, 1993. 18.5 cm x 26 cm. 543 pages. With 45 colour illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following chapters: Foreword - The Orthography, Worlds Apart Joined Together - The Road of Maya Reality, Dancing Across the Abyss - Maya Festival and Pageant, Flint-Shields and Battle Beasts - The Warrior Path of Kingship, and Gaming with the Gods - Destiny and History in Maya Thought. Appendices include full notes and references. Illustrated throughout, both in colour and in black and white.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

A Masterful blend of archaeology, anthropology, astronomy, and lively personal reportage, Maya Comos tells a constellation of stories, from the historical to the mythological, and envokes the awesome power of one of the richest civilizations ever to grace the earth.

Biographie de l'auteur

David Freidel has been a Maya archaeologist for twenty years. He teaches at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780688140694: Maya Cosmos: A Masterful Blend of Archaeology, Anthropology, and Astronomy―Lively Stories of the Richest Civilizations

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0688140696 ISBN 13 :  9780688140694
Editeur : William Morrow Paperbacks, 1995
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