Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests: Intellectual Interchange Between the Northern Maya Lowlands and Highland Mexico in the Late Postclassic PeriodGabrielle Vail, Christine L. Hernández Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests examines evidence for cultural interchange among the intellectual powerbrokers in Postclassic Mesoamerica, specifically those centered in the northern Maya lowlands and the central Mexican highlands. Contributors to the volume's thirteen chapters bring an interdisciplinary perspective to understanding the interactions that led to shared content in hieroglyphic codices and mural art. The authors address similarities in artifacts, architectural styles, and building alignments--often produced in regions separated by hundreds of miles--based on their analyses of iconographic, archaeological, linguistic, and epigraphic material. The volume includes a wealth of new data and interpretive frameworks in this comprehensive discussion of a critical time period in the Mesoamerican past. |
Contents
Introduction | 17 |
Chapter Two Interaction between Central and Eastern | 37 |
Chapter Three Evidence for MayaMexican Interaction in | 77 |
Tulúm Santa Rita | 145 |
Chapter Six Scribal Interaction in Postclassic Mesoamerica | 193 |
Chapter Seven Linguistic Evidence for Historical Contacts between | 217 |
Chapter Eight Nahua Vocables in a Maya Song of the Fall | 241 |
Introduction | 263 |
Common terms and phrases
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