The first book to focus on the multifaceted images of deer and hunting in ancient Maya art, from the award-winning author of To Be Like Gods: Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization.
The first book to focus on the multifaceted images of deer and hunting in ancient Maya art, from the award-winning author of To Be Like Gods: Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization.
Matthew Looper is a professor of art and art history at California State University, Chico. His previous books include To Be Like Gods: Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization, winner of the 2010 Association for Latin American Art Book Award; Gifts of the Moon: Huipil Designs of the Ancient Maya; Lightning Warrior: Maya Art and Kingship at Quirigua; and, most recently, Wearing Culture: Dress and Regalia in Early Mesoamerica and Central America, co-edited with Heather Orr.
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* Acknowledgments * Introduction * Chapter 1. Deer Life: The Maya Ethnobiology of Deer * Chapter 2. Bones to Picks: The Classic Maya Use and Depiction of Durable Deer Remains * Chapter 3. Big Bucks: Deer and Social Status * Chapter 4. Wearing the Horns: Deer, Sexuality, and Fertility in “Dying God” Scenes * Chapter 5. Locking Horns: Deer Hunting, Warfare, the Ballgame, and Male Rites of Passage * Chapter 6. Hart’s Devotion: The Siip in Classic and Postclassic Maya Society * Chapter 7. A Sinking Hart: The Solar Symbolism of Deer in Maya Art * Chapter 8. Deer Departed: Cervid Spirits of Death and Disease * Epilogue. Out of the Woods: Deer and Borders * Notes * Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgments * Introduction * Chapter 1. Deer Life: The Maya Ethnobiology of Deer * Chapter 2. Bones to Picks: The Classic Maya Use and Depiction of Durable Deer Remains * Chapter 3. Big Bucks: Deer and Social Status * Chapter 4. Wearing the Horns: Deer, Sexuality, and Fertility in “Dying God” Scenes * Chapter 5. Locking Horns: Deer Hunting, Warfare, the Ballgame, and Male Rites of Passage * Chapter 6. Hart’s Devotion: The Siip in Classic and Postclassic Maya Society * Chapter 7. A Sinking Hart: The Solar Symbolism of Deer in Maya Art * Chapter 8. Deer Departed: Cervid Spirits of Death and Disease * Epilogue. Out of the Woods: Deer and Borders * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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