Ruins of the Past: The Use and Perception of Abandoned Structures in the Maya Lowlands

Stanton, Travis W (Editor), and Magnoni, Aline (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0870818880 / ISBN 13: 9780870818882

Published by University Press of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 2008

About this Item

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 384 p. Contains: Halftones, Maps. Audience: General/trade. Fine. No dust jacket. missing jacket is only flaw.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ruins of the Past: The Use and Perception of Abandoned Structures in the Maya Lowlands
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado, Boulder, CO
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870818880
• ISBN 13: 9780870818882
• Binding: Hard cover
• Edition: First edition.

About this title

Synopsis

From the Preclassic to the present, Maya peoples have continuously built, altered, abandoned, and re-used structures, imbuing them with new meanings at each transformation. Ruins of the Past is the first volume to focus on how previously built structures in the Maya Lowlands were used and perceived by later peoples, exploring the topic through concepts of landscape, place, and memory. The collection, as Wendy Ashmore points out in her foreword, offers "a stimulating, productive, and fresh set of inferences about ancient Maya cognition of their own past." Contributors include Anthony P. Andrews, Ana Lucía Arroyave Prera, Antonio Benavides C., M. Kathryn Brown, Marcello A. Canuto, Mark B. Child, David A. Freidel, James F. Garber, Charles W. Golden, Stanley P. Guenter, Jon B. Hageman, Richard D. Hansen, Brett A. Houk, Wayne K. Howell, Paul Hughbanks, Scott R. Hutson, Aline Magnoni, T. Kam Manahan, Olivia C. Navarro Farr, Travis W. Stanton, Lauren A. Sullivan, and Fred Valdez Jr.

About the Author

Travis W. Stanton is an associate professor in the Anthropology Department at the Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico. Aline Magnoni is a Ph.D. candidate in the Anthropology Department at Tulane University.