Pre-Columbian Civilizations

10 Apr 2009 17:40

I guess I should specify: in the Americas! The Maya interest me enough to get their own notebook...

Query: did any of these civilizations have something recognizable as philosophy? (A question which would be easier to answer if so many of their books had not been burned.)

Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
George R. Milner, The Moundbuilders: Ancient Peoples of Eastern North America

Richard E. Blanton, Ancient Mesoamerica: A Comparison of Change in Three Regions
Richard E. Blanton et al., Ancient Oaxaca [Blurb]
David Carraso, City of Sacrifice: Violence from the Aztec Empire to the Modern Americas
Inga Clendinnen, Aztecs: An Interpretation
Michael D. Coe and Rex Koontz, Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate
Susan Toby Evans and Joanne Pillsbury (eds.), Palaces of the Ancient New World [blurb]
Steven A. LeBlanc, Painted by a Distant Hand: Mimbres Pottery of the American Southwest [blurb]
Steven A. LeBlanc and Lucia R. Henderson, Symbols in Clay: Seeking Artists' Identities in Hopi Yellow Ware Bowls [blurb]
J. M. G. Le Clezio, The Mexican Dream: Or, The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilization [Sounds more like projecting fantasies onto another culture than anything else, but that can be very entertaining, if not taken seriously. Blurb]
Miguel Leon-Portilla, Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mind
Jill Leslie McKeever-Furst, The Natural History of the Soul in Ancient Mexico
Timothy R. Pauketat, Ancient Cahokia and the Mississippians [blurb]
Zoltan Paulinyi, "The 'Great Goddess' of Teotihuacan: Fiction or Reality?", Ancient Mesoamerica 17 (2006): 1--15
Charles Stanish, Ancient Titicaca: The Evolution of Complex Society in Southern Peru and Northern Bolivia
Rebecca Stone-Miller, Art of the Andes: From Chavin to Inca
Richard Townsend, Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South