Maya civilization
21 Sep 2009 09:58Its 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
- 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
- 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
