The Ancient Maya Robert Sharer

  the ancient maya robert sharer: The Ancient Maya, 6th Edition Robert J. Sharer, Loa P. Traxler, 2006 The rich findings of recent exploration and research are incorporated in this completely revised and greatly expanded sixth edition of this standard work on the Maya people. New field discoveries, new technical advances, new successes in the decipherment of Maya writing, and new theoretical perspectives on the Maya past have made this new edition necessary.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: The Ancient Maya Sylvanus Griswold Morley, Robert J. Sharer, 1994 Comprehensive synthesis of ancient Maya scholarship. Extensive summary of the archaeology of the Maya world provides the historical context for a detailed topical synthesis of chronological and geographic variability within the Maya cultural tradition--
  the ancient maya robert sharer: New Theories on the Ancient Maya Elin C. Danien, Robert J. Sharer, University of Pennsylvania. University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1992-01-29 Papers from the 1987 Maya Weekend conference at the University of Pennsylvania Museum present current views of Maya culture and language. Also included is an article by George Stuart summarizing the history of the study of Maya hieroglyphs and the fascinating scholars and laypersons who have helped bring about their decipherment. Symposium Series III University Museum Monograph, 77
  the ancient maya robert sharer: The Ancient Maya Sylvanus Griswold Morley, 1968
  the ancient maya robert sharer: Daily Life in Maya Civilization Robert J. Sharer, 2009-05-14 Experience daily life in Maya civilization, from its earliest beginnings to the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. Narrative chapters describe Mayan political life, economy, social structure, religion, writing, warfare, and scientific methods. Readers will explore the Mayan calendar, counting system, hunting and gathering methods, language, and family roles and relationships. A revised and expanded edition based on the latest archaeological research, this volume offers new interpretations and corrects popular misconceptions, and shows how the Maya adapted to their environment and preserved their culture and language over thousands of years. Over 60 photos and illustrations, several of new archaeological sites, enhance the material, and an expanded resource center bibliography includes web sites and DVDs for further study. The closing chapter discusses what Maya civilization means for us today and what we can learn from Maya achievements and failures. A first-stop reference source for any student of Latin American and Native American history and culture.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: The Ancient Maya Sylvanus Griswold Morley, George W. Brainerd, 1983
  the ancient maya robert sharer: The Origins of Maya States Loa P. Traxler, Robert J. Sharer, 2016 Proceedings of the conference The Origins of Maya States, held in Philadelphia, April 10-13, 2007.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: Understanding Early Classic Copan Ellen E. Bell, Marcello A. Canuto, Robert J. Sharer, 2004 The book is not just multidisciplinary but interdisciplinary, linking, for example, the architecture of monuments with epigraphy, language concepts, and human events.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: Archaeology Robert J. Sharer, Wendy Ashmore, 1987 This is the only textbook which is organized to follow the steps of the actual process of archaeological research in order to present the methods and theoretical frameworks of archaeology, from the planning and actual conduct of field research, to the different ways archaeological data is interpreted to produce an understanding of the past. It is also the only such textbook to give the reader a series of firsthand accounts of what its like to do archaeology, written by a variety of practicing archaeologists.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: Ancient Maya Arthur Demarest, 2004-12-09 Ancient Maya comes to life in this new holistic and theoretical study.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: The Maya World Matthew Restall, 1999-02-01 This pathbreaking work is a social and cultural history of the Maya peoples of the province of Yucatan in colonial Mexico, spanning the period from shortly after the Spanish conquest of the region to its incorporation as part of an independent Mexico. Instead of depending on the Spanish sources and perspectives that have formed the basis of previous scholarship on colonial Yucatan, the author aims to give a voice to the Maya themselves, basing his analysis entirely on his translations of hundreds of Yucatec Maya notarial documents—from libraries and archives in Mexico, Spain, and the United States—most of which have never before received scholarly attention. These documents allow the author to reconstruct the social and cultural world of the Maya municipality, or cah, the self-governing community where most Mayas lived and which was the focus of Maya social and political identity. The first two parts of the book examine the ways in which Mayas were organized and differentiated from each other within the community, and the discussion covers such topics as individual and group identities, sociopolitical organization, political factionalism, career patterns, class structures, household and family patterns, inheritance, gender roles, sexuality, and religion. The third part explores the material environment of the cah, emphasizing the role played by the use and exchange of land, while the fourth part describes in detail the nature and significance of the source documentation, its genres and its language. Throughout the book, the author pays attention to the comparative contexts of changes over time and the similarities or differences between Maya patterns and those of other colonial-era Mesoamericans, notably the Nahuas of central Mexico.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: Ancient Maya Commoners Jon C. Lohse, Fred Valdez, 2010-01-01 Much of what we currently know about the ancient Maya concerns the activities of the elites who ruled the societies and left records of their deeds carved on the monumental buildings and sculptures that remain as silent testimony to their power and status. But what do we know of the common folk who labored to build the temple complexes and palaces and grew the food that fed all of Maya society? This pathfinding book marshals a wide array of archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic evidence to offer the fullest understanding to date of the lifeways of ancient Maya commoners. Senior and emerging scholars contribute case studies that examine such aspects of commoner life as settlement patterns, household organization, and subsistence practices. Their reports cover most of the Maya area and the entire time span from Preclassic to Postclassic. This broad range of data helps resolve Maya commoners from a faceless mass into individual actors who successfully adapted to their social environment and who also held primary responsibility for producing the food and many other goods on which the whole Maya society depended.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: The World of the Ancient Maya John S. Henderson, 1997 Theirs was one of the few complex societies to emerge in and to adapt successfully to a tropical-forest environment. Their architecture, sculpture, and painting were sophisticated and compellingly beautiful.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: The First Maya Civilization Francisco Estrada-Belli, 2010-11-08 When the Maya kings of Tikal dedicated their first carved monuments in the third century A.D., inaugurating the Classic period of Maya history that lasted for six centuries and saw the rise of such famous cities as Palenque, Copan and Yaxchilan, Maya civilization was already nearly a millennium old. Its first cities, such as Nakbe and El Mirador, had some of the largest temples ever raised in Prehispanic America, while others such as Cival showed even earlier evidence of complex rituals. The reality of this Preclassic Maya civilization has been documented by scholars over the past three decades: what had been seen as an age of simple village farming, belatedly responding to the stimulus of more advanced peoples in highland Mesoamerica, is now know to have been the period when the Maya made themselves into one of the New World's most innovative societies. This book discusses the most recent advances in our knowledge of the Preclassic Maya and the emergence of their rainforest civilization, with new data on settlement, political organization, architecture, iconography and epigraphy supporting a contemporary theoretical perspective that challenges prior assumptions.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom Grant D. Jones, 1998 On March 13, 1697, Spanish troops from Yucatán attacked and occupied Nojpeten, the capital of the Maya people known as Itzas, the inhabitants of the last unconquered native New World kingdom. This political and ritual center--located on a small island in a lake in the tropical forests of northern Guatemala--was densely covered with temples, royal palaces, and thatched houses, and its capture represented a decisive moment in the final chapter of the Spanish conquest of the Mayas. The capture of Nojpeten climaxed more than two years of preparation by the Spaniards, after efforts by the military forces and Franciscan missionaries to negotiate a peaceful surrender with the Itzas had been rejected by the Itza ruling council and its ruler Ajaw Kan Ek’. The conquest, far from being final, initiated years of continued struggle between Yucatecan and Guatemalan Spaniards and native Maya groups for control over the surrounding forests. Despite protracted resistance from the native inhabitants, thousands of them were forced to move into mission towns, though in 1704 the Mayas staged an abortive and bloody rebellion that threatened to recapture Nojpeten from the Spaniards. The first complete account of the conquest of the Itzas to appear since 1701, this book details the layers of political intrigue and action that characterized every aspect of the conquest and its aftermath. The author critically reexamines the extensive documentation left by the Spaniards, presenting much new information on Maya political and social organization and Spanish military and diplomatic strategy. This is not only one of the most detailed studies of any Spanish conquest in the Americas but also one of the most comprehensive reconstructions of an independent Maya kingdom in the history of Maya studies. In presenting the story of the Itzas, the author also reveals much about neighboring lowland Maya groups with whom the Itzas interacted, often violently.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: The Maya and Teotihuacan Geoffrey E. Braswell, 2009-07-21 The contributors to this volume present extensive new evidence from archaeology, iconography, and epigraphy to offer a more nuanced understanding of the interaction between the Early Classic Maya and Teotihuacan. Winner, Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 2005 Since the 1930s, archaeologists have uncovered startling evidence of interaction between the Early Classic Maya and the great empire of Teotihuacan in Central Mexico. Yet the exact nature of the relationship between these two ancient Mesoamerican civilizations remains to be fully deciphered. Many scholars have assumed that Teotihuacan colonized the Maya region and dominated the political or economic systems of certain key centers—perhaps even giving rise to state-level political organizations. Others argue that Early Classic rulers merely traded with Teotihuacan and skillfully manipulated its imported exotic goods and symbol sets to increase their prestige. Moving beyond these traditional assumptions, the contributors to this volume present extensive new evidence from archaeology, iconography, and epigraphy to offer a more nuanced understanding of the interaction between the Early Classic Maya and Teotihuacan. Investigating a range of Maya sites, including Kaminaljuyu, Copán, Tikal, Altun Ha, and Oxkintok, they demonstrate that the influence of Teotihuacan on the Maya varied in nature and duration from site to site, requiring a range of models to explain the patterns of interaction. Moreover, they show that the interaction was bidirectional and discuss how the Maya in turn influenced Teotihuacan.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: Palenque Damien B. Marken, 2007 Collection of articles on recent excavations and studies of one of the best known Maya archaeological sites
  the ancient maya robert sharer: The Popol Vuh Lewis Spence, 1908
  the ancient maya robert sharer: Discovering Our Past: A Brief Introduction to Archaeology Wendy Ashmore, Robert Sharer, Robert J. Sharer, 2009-04-22 This brief, inexpensive introduction to the techniques, methods, and theoretical frameworks of contemporary archaeology follows the same organizing principle as the text Archaeology: Discovering Our Past but features less detail. Archaeological methods and theory are covered comprehensively--at a reasonable level of detail--in under 300 pages. Illustrative examples and case studies present a temporal and geographic balance of both Old and New World sites. Abundant student aids include maps of archaeological areas, extensive illustrations, chapter introductions and summaries, a guide to further reading at the end of each chapter, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: Indigenous Dispossession M. Bianet Castellanos, 2020-12-15 Following the recent global housing boom, tract housing development became a billion-dollar industry in Mexico. At the national level, neoliberal housing policy has overtaken debates around land reform. For Indigenous peoples, access to affordable housing remains crucial to alleviating poverty. But as palapas, traditional thatch and wood houses, are replaced by tract houses in the Yucatán Peninsula, Indigenous peoples' relationship to land, urbanism, and finance is similarly transformed, revealing a legacy of debt and dispossession. Indigenous Dispossession examines how Maya families grapple with the ramifications of neoliberal housing policies. M. Bianet Castellanos relates Maya migrants' experiences with housing and mortgage finance in Cancún, one of Mexico's fastest-growing cities. Their struggle to own homes reveals colonial and settler colonial structures that underpin the city's economy, built environment, and racial order. But even as Maya people contend with predatory lending practices and foreclosure, they cultivate strategies of resistance—from waiting out the state, to demanding Indigenous rights in urban centers. As Castellanos argues, it is through these maneuvers that Maya migrants forge a new vision of Indigenous urbanism.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: Fundamentals of Archaeology Robert J. Sharer, Wendy Ashmore, 1979 This textbook surveys the techniques, methods, and theoretical frameworks of contemporary prehistoric archaeology. In our presentation we view prehistoric archaeology as an integral part of the larger field of anthropology, conditioned by the historical development, concepts and goals of its parent discipline. While we treat the evolving perspectives of archaeological method and theory, together with their implications for understanding the prehistoric past, the text is not a manifesto for any single doctrine or 'school' within the field. Rather, it seeks to synthesize those aspects of both the 'traditional' and the 'new' archaeology that have contributed significantly to the current status of prehistoric archaeology.--p. ix.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: Regional Perspectives on the Olmec Robert J. Sharer, David C. Grove, 1989-11-09
  the ancient maya robert sharer: Classic Maya Political History T. Patrick Culbert, 1996-03-29 This book is concerned with the historical reality recorded on Classic Maya monuments of the first millennium AD, its interpretation in terms of social and political interaction within and between states, and the better understanding of Maya civilization that is emerging from a more accurate perception of the role of its ruling elites.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: Broccoli and Desire Edward F. Fischer, 2006 This book takes a surprising look at the hidden world of broccoli, connecting American consumers concerned about their health and diet with Maya farmers concerned about holding onto their land and making a living. Compelling life stories and rich descriptions from ethnographic fieldwork among supermarket shoppers in Nashville, Tennessee and Maya farmers in highland Guatemala bring the commodity chain of this seemingly mundane product to life. For affluent Americans, broccoli fits into everyday concerns about eating right, being healthy, staying in shape, and valuing natural foods. For Maya farmers, this new export crop provides an opportunity to make a little extra money in difficult, often risky circumstances. Unbeknownst to each other, the American consumer and the Maya farmer are bound together in webs of desire and material production.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: The Caste War of Yucatán Nelson A. Reed, 2001 This is the classic account of one of the most dramatic episodes in Mexican history--the revolt of the Maya Indians of Yucatán against their white and mestizo oppressors that began in 1847. Within a year, the Maya rebels had almost succeeded in driving their oppressors from the peninsula; by 1855, when the major battles ended, the war had killed or put to flight almost half of the population of Yucatán. A new religion built around a Speaking Cross supported their independence for over fifty years, and that religion survived the eventual Maya defeat and continues today. This revised edition is based on further research in the archives and in the field, and draws on the research by a new generation of scholars who have labored since the book's original publication 36 years ago. One of the most significant results of this research is that it has put a human face on much that had heretofore been treated as semi-mythical. Reviews of the First Edition Reed has not only written a fine account of the caste war, he has also given us the first penetrating analysis of the social and economic systems of Yucatán in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. --American Historical Review In this beautifully written history of a little-known struggle between several contending forces in Yucatán, Reed has added an important dimension to anthropological studies in this area. --American Anthropologist Not only is this exciting history (as compelling and dramatic as the best of historical fiction) but it covers events unaccountably neglected by historians. . . . This is a brilliant contribution to history. . . . Don't miss this book. --Los Angeles Times One of the most remarkable books about Latin America to appear in years. --Hispanic American Report
  the ancient maya robert sharer: Maya E Groups David A. Freidel, Arlen F. Chase, Anne S. Dowd, Jerry Murdock, 2017-08-08 As complex societies emerged in the Maya lowlands during the first millennium BCE, so did stable communities focused around public squares and the worship of a divine ruler tied to a Maize God cult. “E Groups,” central to many of these settlements, are architectural complexes: typically, a long platform supporting three struc¬tures and facing a western pyramid across a formal plaza. Aligned with the movements of the sun, E Groups have long been interpreted as giant calendrical devices crucial to the rise of Maya civilization. This volume 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. More than just astronomical observatories or calendars, E Groups were a key element of community organization, urbanism, and identity in the heart of the Maya lowlands. They served as gathering places for emerging communities and centers of ritual; they were the very first civic-religious public architecture in the Maya lowlands. Investigating a wide variety of E Group sites—including some of the most famous like the Mundo Perdido in Tikal and the hitherto little known complex at Chan, as well as others in Ceibal, El Palmar, Cival, Calakmul, Caracol, Xunantunich, Yaxnohcah, Yaxuná, and San Bartolo—this volume pieces together the development of social and political complexity in ancient Maya civilization. James Aimers | Anthony F. Aveni | Jamie J. Awe | Boris Beltran | M. Kathryn Brown | Arlen F. Chase | Diane Z. Chase | Anne S. Dowd | James Doyle | Francisco Estrada-Belli | David A. Freidel | Julie A. Hoggarth | Takeshi Inomata | Patricia A. Mcanany | Susan Milbrath | Jerry Murdock | Kathryn Reese-Taylor | Prudence M. Rice | Cynthia Robin | Franco D. Rossi | Jeremy A. Sabloff | William A. Saturno | Travis W. Stanton A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase
  the ancient maya robert sharer: Lawful Sins Elyse Ona Singer, 2022-05-17 Mexico is at the center of the global battle over abortion. In 2007, a watershed reform legalized the procedure in the national capital, making it one of just three places across Latin America where it was permitted at the time. Abortion care is now available on demand and free of cost through a pioneering program of the Mexico City Ministry of Health, which has served hundreds of thousands of women. At the same time, abortion laws have grown harsher in several states outside the capital as part of a coordinated national backlash. In this book, Elyse Ona Singer argues that while pregnant women in Mexico today have options that were unavailable just over a decade ago, they are also subject to the expanded reach of the Mexican state and the Catholic Church over their bodies and reproductive lives. By analyzing the moral politics of clinical encounters in Mexico City's public abortion program, Lawful Sins offers a critical account of the relationship among reproductive rights, gendered citizenship, and public healthcare. With timely insights on global struggles for reproductive justice, Singer reorients prevailing perspectives that approach abortion rights as a hallmark of women's citizenship in liberal societies.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: Secrets of the Maya Peter A. Young, 2002 Unlock the mysteries of the Mayan world. Deep in the rain forests of South and Central America, the Mayan culture thrived for almost 4,000 years. From the earliest Mayan farmer in 2,600 BC through the thirteenth century AD, the Maya developed an elaborate society, built great cities and temples, and created the only real system of writing native to the Americas. Although many of the intricacies of the Mayan culture remain shrouded in mystery, hundreds of new discoveries have come to light in recent years, and our body of knowledge about the Maya has grown by leaps and bounds. Now, the most fascinating new discoveries have been compiled into one volume: Secrets of the Maya, a book from the editors of Archaeology Magazine. From the discovery of ancient caves used for religious rituals—including human sacrifice—to the search for the long-lost White City, Secrets of the Maya will take readers on an exciting and surprising archaeological journey. Featuring articles on the latest research, a comprehensive time line, and a special section on Mayan hieroglyphs, Secrets of the Maya will appeal to experts and amateurs alike.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: The Classic Maya Stephen D. Houston, Takeshi Inomata, 2009-09-14 In the first millennium AD, the Classic Maya created courtly societies in and around the Yucatan Peninsula that have left some of the most striking intellectual and aesthetic achievements of the ancient world, including large settlements like Tikal, Copan, and Palenque. This book is the first in-depth synthesis of the Classic Maya. It is richly informed by new decipherments of hieroglyphs and decades of intensive excavation and survey. Structured by categories of person in society, it reports on kings, queens, nobles, gods, and ancestors, as well as the many millions of farmers and other figures who lived in societies predicated on sacred kingship and varying political programs. The Classic Maya presents a tandem model of societies bound by moral covenants and convulsed by unavoidable tensions between groups, all affected by demographic trends and changing environments. Focusing on the Classic heartland but referring to other zones, it will serve as the basic source for all readers interested in the civilization of the Maya.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: Philosophy of the Ancient Maya Alexus McLeod, 2017-12-26 This book investigates some of the central topics of metaphysics in the philosophical thought of the Maya people of Mesoamerica, particularly from the Preclassic through Postclassic periods. This book covers the topics of time, change, identity, and truth, through comparative investigation integrating Maya texts and practices—such as Classic Period stelae, Postclassic Codices, and Colonial-era texts such as the Popol Vuh and the books of Chilam Balam—and early Chinese philosophy.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: The Madrid Codex Gabrielle Vail, Anthony Aveni, 2009-03-31 This volume offers new calendrical models and methodologies for reading, dating, and interpreting the general significance of the Madrid Codex. The longest of the surviving Maya codices, this manuscript includes texts and images painted by scribes conversant in Maya hieroglyphic writing, a written means of communication practiced by Maya elites from the second to the fifteenth centuries A.D. Some scholars have recently argued that the Madrid Codex originated in the Petén region of Guatemala and postdates European contact. The contributors to this volume challenge that view by demonstrating convincingly that it originated in northern Yucatán and was painted in the Pre-Columbian era. In addition, several contributors reveal provocative connections among the Madrid and Borgia group of codices from Central Mexico. Contributors include: Harvey M. Bricker, Victoria R. Bricker, John F. Chuchiak IV, Christine L. Hernández, Bryan R. Just, Merideth Paxton, and John Pohl. Additional support for this publication was generously provided by the Eugene M. Kayden Fund at the University of Colorado.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: New World of Gain Brian P. Owensby, 2021-12-21 In the centuries before Europeans crossed the Atlantic, social and material relations among the indigenous Guaraní people of present-day Paraguay were based on reciprocal gift-giving. But the Spanish and Portuguese newcomers who arrived in the sixteenth century seemed interested in the Guaraní only to advance their own interests, either through material exchange or by getting the Guaraní to serve them. This book tells the story of how Europeans felt empowered to pursue individual gain in the New World, and how the Guaraní people confronted this challenge to their very way of being. Although neither Guaraní nor Europeans were positioned to grasp the larger meaning of the moment, their meeting was part of a global sea change in human relations and the nature of economic exchange. Brian P. Owensby uses the centuries-long encounter between Europeans and the indigenous people of South America to reframe the notion of economic gain as a historical development rather than a matter of human nature. Owensby argues that gain—the pursuit of individual, material self-interest—must be understood as a global development that transformed the lives of Europeans and non-Europeans, wherever these two encountered each other in the great European expansion spanning the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: Copán Edward Wyllys Andrews, William Leonard Fash, 2005 This volume collects leading scholarship on one of the most important archaeological complexes in the ancient Maya world. The authors - internationally renowned experts who participated in the Copan Acropolis Archaeological Project - address enduring themes in Maya archaeology, such as symbolism and its use in elite legitimation strategies, demographics and ancient political economy, and the relationship between water management and social structure. In addition to site-specific breakthroughs involving dynastic sequences, epigraphy, and chronologies, these essays explore questions of broad interest to archaeologists and other anthropologists, including state formation, architecture and space, and the relationship between history and archaeology as well as among archaeology, epigraphy, and iconography. Synthesizing the new findings in the context of the long history of Maya archaeology, the volume takes stock of the field and suggests future directions for research.--BOOK JACKET.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: Prehistoric Mesoamerica Richard E. W. Adams, 2005 An up-to-date overview of Mesoamerican cultures from early prehistoric times through the fall of the Aztec Empire, Prehistoric Mesoamerica, Third Edition will be useful and appealing to readers interested in Mesoamerican art, society, politics, and intellectual achievement.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: The Origins of Maya Civilization Richard E. W. Adams, 1978
  the ancient maya robert sharer: The Taking and Displaying of Human Body Parts as Trophies by Amerindians Richard J. Chacon, David H. Dye, 2007-08-21 This edited volume mainly focuses on the practice of taking and displaying various body parts as trophies in both North and South America. The editors and contributors (which include Native Peoples from both continents) examine the evidence and causes of Amerindian trophy taking. Additionally, they present objectively and discuss dispassionately the topic of human proclivity toward ritual violence. This book fills the gap in literature on this subject.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: Writing Systems Henry Rogers, 2005 Accessibly written, Writing Systems: A Linguistic Approach provides detailed coverage of all major writing systems of historical or structural significance with thorough discussion of structure, history, and social context as well as important theoretical issues. The book examines systems as diverse as Chinese, Greek, and Maya and each writing system is presented in the light of four major aspects of writing: history and development; internal structure; the relationship of writing and language; and sociolinguistic factors. The volume is extensively illustrated and the glossary of technical terms, exercises, and further reading suggestions that accompany each chapter make Writing Systems a valuable resource for students in linguistics and anthropology.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: Jobless Growth in the Dominican Republic Christian Krohn-Hansen, 2022-05-03 The Dominican Republic has posted impressive economic growth rates over the past thirty years. Despite this, the generation of new, good jobs has been remarkably weak. How have ordinary and poor Dominicans worked and lived in the shadow of the country's conspicuous growth rates? This book considers this question through an ethnographic exploration of the popular economy in the Dominican capital. Focusing on the city's precarious small businesses, including furniture manufacturers, food stalls, street-corner stores, and savings and credit cooperatives, Krohn-Hansen shows how people make a living, tackle market shifts, and the factors that characterize their relationship to the state and pervasive corruption. Empirically grounded, this book examines the condition of the urban masses in Santo Domingo, offering an original and captivating contribution to the scholarship on popular economic practices, urban changes, and today's Latin America and the Caribbean. This will be essential reading for scholars and policy makers.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: Nahua and Maya Catholicisms Mark Z. Christensen, 2013 Nahua and Maya Catholicisms examines ecclesiastical texts written in Nahuatl and Yucatec Maya to illustrate the role of these texts in conveying and reflecting various Catholic messages--and thus Catholicisms--throughout colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan. It demonstrates how published and unpublished sermons, confessional manuals, catechisms, and other religious texts betray official and unofficial versions of Catholicism, and how these versions changed throughout the colonial period according to indigenous culture, local situations, and broader early modern events. The book's study of these texts also allows for a better appreciation of the negotiations that occurred during the evangelization process between native and Spanish cultures, the center and periphery, and between official expectations and everyday realities. And by employing both Nahuatl and Maya religious texts, Nahua and Maya Catholicism allows for a uniquely comparative study that expands beyond Central Mexico to include Yucatan.
  the ancient maya robert sharer: Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens Simon Martin, Nikolai Grube, 2008-03-25 The ideal reference on Maya archaeology.--Science News
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CACHING IT IN: LOCAL PATTERNS IN ANCIENT MAYA RITUAL CACHES OF ECCENTRIC LITHICS WITHIN THE BELIZE VALLEY By Kelsey Jean Sullivan ... (Sharer and Traxler 2006). …

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The Ancient Maya Robert Sharer The Ancient Maya, 6th Edition Robert J. Sharer,Loa P. Traxler,2006 The rich findings of recent exploration and research are incorporated in this …

A TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM R - Caracol Archaeological Project
Coe‘s 1967 guidebook entitled Tikal: A Handbook of the Ancient Maya Ruins ran through many printings and new editions and is still available at the ruins today. In 1975 Coe contracted the …

Tunnel Vision - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Robert Sharer, and Ricardo Agurcia at Copan (Agurcia and Fash 2005; Fash and Agurcia 2005; Fash and Sharer 1991; Sharer et al. 2005), that archaeological tunneling became a …

Documentation of Sculptures at Quiriguá, Guatemala - FAMSI
The ancient Maya site of Quiriguá, Izabal, Guatemala is renowned for its large ... Linda Schele, and Robert Sharer. Many thanks also to my photographer, Thomas Tolles. Sources Cited …

The Investigation of Classic Period Maya Warfare at Caracol, Belice
ancient Maya was as a peaceful people. ln 1952, Robert Rands completed his Ph. D. thesis on the evidences of warfare in Classic Maya art, following up on the important work just …

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the ancient Maya, which became the heuristic source for knowledge of the ancient word. However, the prominence that this sacred text played in the ... Vuh as a Hieroglyphic Book,” in …

Why was Coriantumr’s Record Engraved on a “Large Stone”?
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standard textbook on the Maya (Sharer, R.J. 1994. The Ancient Maya. Stanford University Press, Stanford, USA. 892 pp. Fifth edition), the channels between the raised fields may have been …

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ancient Maya command enormous attention at many levels. The truly authoritative account by Robert Sharer with Loa Traxler of The Ancient Maya is the most current and thorough …

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The Ancient Maya Robert Sharer The Ancient Maya Sylvanus Griswold Morley 1975 The Ancient Maya Heather McKillop 2004-08-19 Thanks to powerful innovations in archaeology and other …

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Runggaldier Robert Sharer Loa Traxler The First Maya Civilization Francisco Estrada-Belli,2010-11-08 When the Maya kings of Tikal dedicated their first carved monuments in the third century …

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king" thesis (Sharer et al., 1999). The disagreement over the veracity of Maya texts was also part of a larger issue involving the development of Maya sociopolitical organization. One position …

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CLASSIC MAYA WARFARE AND WEAPONS: Spear, dart, and …
ceramics lasting until a.d. 1250. William Fash and Robert Sharer (1991), however, see the pattern at Copan as a three-stage process involving, first, the weakening of political and religious …

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Morley, Sylvanus G., and George W. Brainerd (revised by Robert J. Sharer) 1983 The Ancient Maya. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Puleston, Dennis E., and Olga Stavrakis Puleston …

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The ancient Maya also used a calendar system called the Long Count. The Long Count calendar gives each day a unique designation within a time period of approximately 5125 and 1/3 …

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in ancient Maya writing and sculpture was encapsulated in the action of tying on a cloth headband. Clearly, the production of fabric was an essential activity performed ... 2 Robert J. …

3Water and Landscape: Ancient Maya Settlement Decisions
a few thoughts on how understanding ancient Maya water and land use is relevant for today’s issues regarding sustainable land and water use. [settlement patterns, water management, …

Changing Patterns Of Social Organization Jason Yaeger (2024)
through which power and social life are intertwined The Origins of Maya States Loa P. Traxler,Robert J. Sharer,2016-10-28 The Pre Columbian Maya were organized into a series of …

Robert J. Sharer, Loa P. Traxler
Museum and directed by William Coe and Robert Sharer (Ashmore 1979, 1984, 1987, 2007; Coe & ... indicate that Maya lords ruled at Copan by the end of the Late Preclassic era (Fash 2001; …

Copán: The History of an Ancient Maya Kingdom 1 - sarweb.org
the Maya still living in the region was hotly debated, with many “schol-ars” trying to ascribe them to Old World peoples and cultures instead (Willey and Sabloff 1993). Thereafter, Alfred …

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AN OVERVIEW OF GRAFFITI BEYOND THE MAYA AREA 43 Introduction 43 Ancient Egypt 44 Ancient Greece 51 ... late Prof. Robert Sharer to whom I owe a special debt of gratitude. …

CLASSIC MAYA WARFARE AND WEAPONS - JSTOR
ceramics lasting until a.d. 1250. William Fash and Robert Sharer (1991), however, see the pattern at Copan as a three-stage process involving, first, the weakening of political and religious …

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The Ancient Maya Robert Sharer The Maya and Teotihuacan Geoffrey E. Braswell 2009-07-21 Since the 1930s, archaeologists have uncovered startling evidence of interaction between the …

Palenque’s Settlement Pattern and Social Organization Models
from the center, population estimates for ancient Maya sites have traditionally been broken up into two parts; core and periphery. The information presented here should be considered “core”. ...

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book, Tikal: A Handbook of the Ancient Maya Ruins, is still in print. His 1965 Science article, “Tikal, Guatemala, and Emergent Maya Civilization,” initiated a search for the Pre-classic …

Documentation of Sculptures at Quiriguá, Guatemala - Ancient …
The ancient Maya site of Quiriguá, Izabal, Guatemala is renowned for its large ... Linda Schele, and Robert Sharer. Many thanks also to my photographer, Thomas Tolles. Sources Cited …

The Maya Calendar System
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The Ancient Maya, 6th Edition Robert J. Sharer,Loa P. Traxler,2006 The rich findings of recent exploration and research are incorporated in this completely revised and greatly expanded …

Ancestral Maya Economies In Archaeological Perspective …
Runggaldier Robert Sharer Loa Traxler The Real Business of Ancient Maya Economies Marilyn A. Masson,David A. Freidel,Arthur A. Demarest,2020-08-25 A timely synthesis of the latest …

Daily Life In Maya Civilization Robert J Sharer [PDF]
Maya civilization economy food production and trade social and political systems writing and calendars life cycle events arts and crafts and religion Daily Life in Maya Civilization Robert J. …

Too Many Maya, Too Few Buildings: Investigating Construction …
Maya polities-the buildings are large, and so populations must have been large as well. An example particularly appropriate to this study is the contention by William Fash and Robert …

MA History 1st and 2nd semester for the session 2013-14
MA History 1st and 2nd semester for the session 2013-14 Semester-1 Paper I: Ancient Societies-I Max Marks : 80 Time : 3 Hrs. Note: Nine questions are to be set in all spreading into five units …

The Toe Bone And The Tooth An Ancient Mayan Story Re Robert J. Sharer ...
19 Feb 2024 · The Ancient Maya Robert J. Sharer,Loa P. Traxler.2006 This book traces the evolution of Maya civilization through the Pre-Columbian era, a span of some 2,500 years from …

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Outlines and Highlights for Ancient Maya by Robert J Sharer, Isbn Cram101 Textbook Reviews 2009-12 Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all of the testable terms, concepts, …

Investigations of Copan Structure 10L-26 - JSTOR
Codirector Robert Sharer and his colleagues from the Univer sity of Pennsylvania have undertaken to relate the archaeolog ical features exposed in the Acropolis Cut to those buried …

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The Ancient Maya Robert Sharer Stone of Kings Gerard Helferich 2012 A gripping account of the 400-year-old quest for the precious stone revered by the ancient Maya Jade has long been …

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Co-Organizer of Symposium on “Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya,” A conference at Yale ... American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., 2001 (with Robert Sharer) On …

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The Ancient Maya, 6th Edition Robert J. Sharer,Loa P. Traxler,2022 This book traces the evolution of Maya civilization through the Pre Columbian era a span of some 2 500 years from …

Annales History and the Ancient Maya State: Some Observations …
lannone * Annales History and the Ancient Maya State 69 Houston 1993; Sanders 1989:104; Sanders and Webster 1988) or variations on this theme, including feudal ... Sharer 1993). For …

Daily Life In Maya Civilization Robert J Sharer (2024)
Maya civilization economy food production and trade social and political systems writing and calendars life cycle events arts and crafts and religion Daily Life in Maya Civilization Robert J. …

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The Ancient Maya Robert J. Sharer,Loa P. Traxler,2006 Of Archaic and Early Preclassic developments -- Patterns in the evolution of Mesoamerican civilization -- 5. The emergence of …

Pursuit Of The Ancient Maya Some Archaeologists Of Yesterday …
Elin C. Danien,Robert J. Sharer,University of Pennsylvania. University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Pursuit of the Ancient Maya Robert Levere Brunhouse,1975 The Ancient …

RECOLLECTIONS OF BILL COE AND HIS CAREER AS A MAYA ARCHAEOLOGIST
Figure 1. Map of the Chalchuapa Site-Zone. (From: Sharer, Robert. Chalchuapa: Investigations at a Maya Highland Ceremonial Center. Expedition, v.11, no.2: pp. 36-37.) The second thing I …