Maya civilization
21 Jan 2010 08:42Its accomplishments. Its rediscovery. And modern superstitions --- among its descendants; elsewhere in the world.
See also: Pre-Columbian Civilizations in general
- Recommended:
- Michael D. Coe
- The Maya
- Breaking the Maya Codde
- David Freidel, Linda Schele and Joy Parker, Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path [Lots of information and many interesting conjectures, delivered with rather more certainty than seems warranted, and irritating stabs at silly cultural relativism.]
- Nelson Reed, The Caste War of Yucatán
- Robert Sharer with Loa Traxler, The Ancient Maya
- John Lloyd Stephens, Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan
- To read:
- Inga Clendinnen, Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517--1570 [blurb]
- Arthur Demarest, Ancient Maya: The Rise and Fall of a Rainforest Civilization [blurb]
- Arthur Demarest and Don Rice (eds.), The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands: Collapse, Transition, and Transformation
- Lynn V. Foster, Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World
- Thomas H. Guderjan, The Nature of an Ancient Maya City: Resources, Interaction, and Power at Blue Creek, Belize
- John S. Henderson, The World of the Ancient Maya
- John Lowe, The Dynamics of Apocalypse [A computer model of the collapse of the Classic Maya]
- Simon Martin and Nikolai Grube, Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens
- Cameron L. McNeil, David A. Burney, and Lida Pigott Burney, "Evidence disputing deforestation as the cause for the collapse of the ancient Maya polity of Copan, Honduras", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 107 (2010): 1017--1022
- June Nash, Mayan Visions: The Quest for Autonomy in an Age of Globalization
- L. Schele and M. E. Miller, The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art
- Dennis Tedlock (ed.), 2000 Years of Mayan Literature [Blurb]
- David Webster, The Fall of the Ancient Maya: Solving the Mystery of the Maya Collapse
