Fiery Pool The Maya and the Mythic Sea

Finamore, Daniel & Stephen Houston

ISBN 10: 0300161379 / ISBN 13: 9780300161373

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 2010

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Collectible Fine Hardcover Fine Dust Jacket. Not Price clipped. NOT a library copy. Tall Very Large large Color filled study by numerous scholars on water in Maya mythic thought as well in trade and sea travel for Mayan ritual. First Edition 328 pp. Peabody Essex Museum Yale University Press, 2010.The clearest hugest photos of the Mayan mythic narrative on painted ceramics. Exquisite Jade Masks. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fiery Pool The Maya and the Mythic Sea
• Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300161379
• ISBN 13: 9780300161373
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Maya/Pueblo/Inca
  • Goddess
  • Pre-Columbus Voyages/Ancient America/ Mound Bui...

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Synopsis

A revolutionary new interpretation of ancient Maya art and culture

Maya art and hieroglyphs constitute one of the world’s most fascinating, visually striking, and complex systems of expression. Most scholarly interpretations of Maya art and culture have emphasized that this ancient civilization was oriented toward inland centers and preoccupied with the blood of royal lineage and ritual sacrifice. Drawing on recent archaeological discoveries and developments in deciphering Maya glyphs, this groundbreaking volume presents a revisionist reading that shifts the emphasis of interpretation to the mythic power of the sea as the basis of a larger, deeper cultural narrative and history for the Maya.

Surrounded by the sea in all directions, the Maya viewed water as a source of both life and danger. Through the artworks presented—including acknowledged masterpieces and many never before exhibited in the United States—readers will gain a new appreciation for water’s influence on Maya cosmology, its role in their interpretation of the supernatural, as well as its impact on Maya cross-cultural contacts, trading practices, and power dynamics. Essays by prominent scholars provide an interdisciplinary context for understanding Maya art as well as new interpretations of traditional iconography and symbolism.

Accompanying a monumental exhibition comprising almost 100 artworks ranging from carved stone monuments to delicate jade sculptures, this compelling, richly illustrated publication will fundamentally transform the interpretation of Maya art.

Published in association with the Peabody Essex Museum

Exhibition Schedule:

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts (3/27/10 – 7/18/10)

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas (8/29/10 – 1/2/11)

St. Louis Art Museum (2/13/11 – 5/8/11)

About the Author

Daniel Finamore is The Russell W. Knight Curator of Maritime Art and History at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Stephen D. Houston is The Dupee Family Professor of Social Science and Professor of Archaeology at Brown University.