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Author: Mrs. H. Grattan Guinness
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Author: Mrs. H. Grattan Guinness
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Author: Isaiah Bowman
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Category : Boundaries
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Author: Mrs. Henry Grattan Guinness
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Author: Vernon L. Scarborough
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816513604
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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The Precolumbian ballgame, played on a masonry court, has long intrigued scholars because of the magnificence of its archaeological remains. From its lowland Maya origins it spread throughout the Aztec empire, where the game was so popular that sixteen thousand rubber balls were imported annually into Tenochtitlan. It endured for two thousand years, spreading as far as to what is now southern Arizona. This new collection of essays brings together research from field archaeology, mythology, and Maya hieroglyphic studies to illuminate this important yet puzzling aspect of Native American culture. The authors demonstrate that the game was more than a spectator sport; serving social, political, mythological, and cosmological functions, it celebrated both fertility and the afterlife, war and peace, and became an evolving institution functioning in part to resolve conflict within and between groups. The contributors provide complete coverage of the archaeological, sociopolitical, iconographic, and ideological aspects of the game, and offer new information on the distribution of ballcourts, new interpretations of mural art, and newly perceived relations of the game with material in the Popol Vuh. With its scholarly attention to a subject that will fascinate even general readers, The Mesoamerican Ballgame is a major contribution to the study of the mental life and outlook of New World peoples.
Author: Linda M. Heywood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521002783
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Author: Glenn D. Kittler
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Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
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Author: Fanny Emma Guinness
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Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Author: William Swan Sonnenschein
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Author: Fanny Emma Guinness
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Fanny Emma Guinness
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Languages : en
Pages : 572
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