university of texas press the teotihuacan trinity the sociopolitical structure of an ancient mesoamerican city dec 2007
university of texas press the teotihuacan trinity the sociopolitical structure of an ancient mesoamerican city dec 2007
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Headrick, Annabeth.
The Teotihuacan trinity : the sociopolitical structure of an
ancient Mesoamerican city / Annabeth Headrick. — 1st ed.
p. cm. — (William and Bettye Nowlin series)
Includes ... emerged as the primary
occupant. Instead of housing the tomb of a ruler,
the Pyramid of the Moon records the importance
of sacrifi...
university of texas press thelma & louise live the cultural afterlife of an american film nov 2007
... recalls the freeze-frame that con-
cludes Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), an image of the two
outlaws charging out of hiding to meet the gunfire of the Bolivian Army.
Critics and scholars ... provide
the film with a more expansive scope, visually opening the film to take ad-
vantage of the sweep of the American West, situating the personal develop-
ment...
university of texas press death and the classic maya kings jan 2009
... is the source of the modern race
of humans, the people of corn.
e idea that the Classic Maya, like their colonial and modern descendants,
saw themselves as “people of corn” is an important ... between rebirth and resurrection drawn by Quenon and Le Fort:
rebirth is the animation of the deceased in the Underworld, whereas resurrec-
tion is the reanimation of...
university of texas press negotiating for the past archaeology nationalism and diplomacy in the middle east 1919-1941 jul 2007
... few Americans
visited the region, with the exception of the Holy Land and Egypt, and
therewerefewcommercial or other relations.By theend of the nineteenth
century, with theexpansionofmissionaryactivityand,ofcourse, ... one of their most important tasks the rewriting of history to convince
their fellow citizens of the glorious achievements of their ancestors and
thus to...
university of texas press before the volcano erupted the ancient cerén village in central america mar 2002
... buried structures, the
ancient landscape, and other
anthropogenic features
Once the topography of the ancient TBJ living sur-
face had been mapped, the location of the structures
built on it and other ... operations.
The GPR-produced map of the site illustrates the
preference of the Cerén inhabitants for building
their structures on the north flank of the va...
university of texas press heraldry for the dead memory identity and the engraved stone plaques of neolithic iberia sep 2008
... Like many prehistorians of his time,
he continued to argue for an eastern origin of the plaques.
Plaque studies—and indeed the study of the Late Neolithic of the Iberian
Peninsula—made their ... cultural behavior of ancient populations, but the social
landscape of an ancient group of people constrains, shapes, and ultimately gives
meaning to that material c...
university of texas press in the maw of the earth monster studies of mesoamerican ritual cave use feb 2005
... listsfourentrances to theUnderworld,two of which are throughcaves:
the north entrance by the ‘‘cave of thewinds,’’ which is the access to theworld of
the dead; and the south entrance, Atotonican, a ... and the Ancient Calendar. 2nd ed. Trans. and ed.
F. Horcasitas and D. Heyden; foreword M. León-Portilla. University of Okla-
homa Press, Norman.
1994 The History of...
university of texas press signs of the inka khipu binary coding in the andean knotted-string records aug 2003
... sufficed to report the quantities of the goods in question.
The nature of these products was often obvious from the type of nu-
merical signs employed Attheendofthetext, the name of the
Tseng 2003.3.5 ... their means, that they
can give an account of all the events that have happened in their
land for more than five hundred years. They had expert Indians who
were master...
university of texas press the religion of the etruscans feb 2006
... version of their papers, taking into account the con-
tributions of others.
The table of contents for TheReligionoftheEtruscansre-
veals the range of topics. The aim is to be systematic and
comprehensive. ... to too large an
extent tended to swap their Christian framework for an an-
thropological one, by which I mean the anthropology of the
1970s and not of the 1...
university of california press from marriage to the market the transformation of womens lives and work aug 2006
... University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press, Ltd.
London, England
© 2006 by The Regents of the University of California
Library of Congress ... question and ultimately overturn many
of these old codes. The institution of no-fault divorce, the rising acceptance of
cohabitation, the legalization of abort...
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