The Life-Giving Stone

Ethnoarchaeology of Maya Metates

Michael T. Searcy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2011
University of Arizona Press (Verlag)
978-0-8165-2909-4 (ISBN)

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Provides a thought-provoking ethnoarchaeological account of metate and mano manufacture, marketing, and use among Guatemalan Maya for whom these stone implements are still essential equipment in everyday life and diet.

Michael T. Searcy is an archaeologist for the Office of Public Archaeology at Brigham Young University and has worked on a number of archaeological projects in Utah, Mexico, and Guatemala. Searcy also has seven years' experience in ethnographic documentary filmmaking. His film Starvation Doctrine: The Plight of Illegal Immigrants in America won the Best Oklahoma Short Film award in 2009.

Zusatzinfo	51 black and white photographs, 7 maps, 1 table
Verlagsort	Tucson
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 226 mm
Gewicht	263 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik
ISBN-10	0-8165-2909-4 / 0816529094
ISBN-13	978-0-8165-2909-4 / 9780816529094
Zustand	Neuware