Philosophy Of The Ancient Maya
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Author | : Alexus McLeod |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2017-12-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1498531393 |
This book investigates some of the central topics of metaphysics in the philosophical thought of the Maya people of Mesoamerica, particularly from the Preclassic through Postclassic periods. This book covers the topics of time, change, identity, and truth, through comparative investigation integrating Maya texts and practices—such as Classic Period stelae, Postclassic Codices, and Colonial-era texts such as the Popol Vuh and the books of Chilam Balam—and early Chinese philosophy.
Author | : Simon Martin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 543 |
Release | : 2020-06-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108483887 |
With new readings of ancient texts, Ancient Maya Politics unlocks the long-enigmatic political system of the Classic Maya.
Author | : Miguel Leon-Portilla |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1990-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780806123080 |
In this second English-language edition of one of his most notable works, Miguel León-Portilla explores the Maya Indians’ remarkable concepts of time. At the book’s first appearance Evon Z. Vogt, Curator of Middle American Ethnology in Harvard University, predicted that it would become "a classic in anthropology," a prediction borne out by the continuing critical attention given to it by leading scholars. Like no other people in history, the ancient Maya were obsessed by the study of time. Their sages framed its cycles with tireless exactitude. Yet their preoccupation with time was not limited to calendrics; it was a central trait in their evolving culture. In this absorbing work León-Portilla probes the question, What did time really mean for the ancient Maya in terms of their mythology, religious thought, worldview, and everyday life? In his analysis of key Maya texts and computations, he reveals one of the most elaborate attempts of the human mind to penetrate the secrets of existence.
Author | : James Maffie |
Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 609 |
Release | : 2014-03-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1607322234 |
In Aztec Philosophy, James Maffie shows the Aztecs advanced a highly sophisticated and internally coherent systematic philosophy worthy of consideration alongside other philosophies from around the world. Bringing together the fields of comparative world philosophy and Mesoamerican studies, Maffie excavates the distinctly philosophical aspects of Aztec thought. Aztec Philosophy focuses on the ways Aztec metaphysics—the Aztecs’ understanding of the nature, structure and constitution of reality—underpinned Aztec thinking about wisdom, ethics, politics,\ and aesthetics, and served as a backdrop for Aztec religious practices as well as everyday activities such as weaving, farming, and warfare. Aztec metaphysicians conceived reality and cosmos as a grand, ongoing process of weaving—theirs was a world in motion. Drawing upon linguistic, ethnohistorical, archaeological, historical, and contemporary ethnographic evidence, Maffie argues that Aztec metaphysics maintained a processive, transformational, and non-hierarchical view of reality, time, and existence along with a pantheistic theology. Aztec Philosophy will be of great interest to Mesoamericanists, philosophers, religionists, folklorists, and Latin Americanists as well as students of indigenous philosophy, religion, and art of the Americas.
Author | : Prabhu Dutt Shastri |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2018-02-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781378646502 |
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Author | : Arthur Demarest |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2004-12-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521533904 |
Ancient Maya comes to life in this new holistic and theoretical study.
Author | : Peter Herman Sigal |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2021-11-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780292798984 |
For the preconquest Maya, sexuality was a part of ritual discourse and performance, and all sex acts were understood in terms of their power to create, maintain, and destroy society. As postconquest Maya adapted to life under colonial rule, they neither fully abandoned these views nor completely adopted the formulation of sexuality prescribed by Spanish Catholicism. Instead, they evolved hybridized notions of sexual desire, represented in the figure of the Virgin Mary as a sexual goddess, whose sex acts embodied both creative and destructive components. This highly innovative book decodes the process through which this colonization of Yucatan Maya sexual desire occurred. Pete Sigal frames the discussion around a series of texts, including the Books of Chilam Balam and the Ritual of the Bacabs, that were written by seventeenth and eighteenth century Maya nobles to elucidate the history, religion, and philosophy of the Yucatecan Maya communities. Drawing on the insights of philology, discourse analysis, and deconstruction, he analyzes the sexual fantasies, fears, and desires that are presented, often unintentionally, in the "margins" of these texts and shows how they illuminate issues of colonialism, power, ritual, and gender.
Author | : Lynn V. Foster |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195183634 |
This comprehensive and accessible reference explores the greatest and most mysterious of civilizations, hailed for its contributions to science, mathematics, and technology. Each chapter is supplemented by an extensive bibliography as well as photos, original line drawings, and maps.
Author | : Douglas L. Berger |
Publisher | : Global Academic Publishing |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2004-05-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781586842437 |
Explores the interpretive problems, complexities, and legacies of Schopenhauer’s encounter with ancient India.
Author | : John S. Henderson |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801482847 |
Theirs was one of the few complex societies to emerge in and to adapt successfully to a tropical-forest environment. Their architecture, sculpture, and painting were sophisticated and compellingly beautiful.