A comprehensive guide to the Maya which reveals kingship rites, ritual warfare, with a vast array of color plates and drawings. '[A] work as remarkable for its text as for the photographs and drawings that illustrate it.' Octavio Paz, The New York Review of Books Dust stains on text edges Used copy with light wear.

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Title

Blood of Kings the Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art

Publisher

George Braziller April 1992

Publication Date

1992

Language

English

ISBN 10

0807612782

ISBN 13

9780807612781

Binding

Trade Paperback

Condition

Used - Very Good

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Art - World - Pre-Columbian

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"[A] work as remarkable for its text as for the photographs and drawings that illustrate it."―Octavio Paz, The New York Review of Books

A comprehensive guide to the Maya which reveals kingship rites, ritual warfare, with a vast array of color plates and drawings. 122 color plates, 300 drawings and 50 black-and-white illustrations

About the Authors

Mary Ellen Miller is former dean of Yale College, and now directs the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Her book with Linda Schele, The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art, is considered a landmark in Maya studies.

Michael D. Coe (1929– 2019) was Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Yale University and Curator Emeritus for the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University. His books include The Maya, Mexico, and Breaking the Maya Code.

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