Rex Koontz

Landscape And Power In Ancient Mesoamerica (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, the authors investigate the meaning of Ancient Mesoamerica through analyses of the built environment, performance, and cultural poetics. They explore what Ancient Mesoamerican urban space meant to its inhabitants, and how this meaning was created and disseminated.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429979040
• Artikelnr.: 55265283

Autorenporträt

Rex Koontz

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
The Cultural Poetics of Power and Space in Ancient Mesoamerica
What the Heck's Coatépec? The Formative Roots of an Enduring Mythology
Procession Rituals and Shrine Sites: The Politics of Sacred Space In the Late Formative Valley of Oaxaca
Sacred Geography at Izapa and the Performance of Rulership
Dance Performances at Quiriguá
The Poetics of Power and Knowledge at La Venta
Merging Myth and Politics: The Three Temple Complex at Teotihuacan
A Model for Late Classic Community Structure at Copán
Honduras
The Form of Power: The Architectural Meaning of Building A of El Tajín
Political Rhetoric and the Unification of Natural Geography
Cosmic Space
and Gender Spheres
Mountain of Heaven
Mountain of Earth: The Great Pyramid of Cholula as Sacred Landscape
A Sense of Place at Chichén Itzá