Ritual, Violence, and the Fall of the Classic Maya Kings

Gyles Iannone, Brett A. Houk, Sonja A. Schwake (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2018
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-6405-5 (ISBN)

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Maya kings who failed to ensure the prosperity of their kingdoms were subject to various forms of termination, including the ritual defacing and destruction of monuments and even violent death. This is the first comprehensive volume to focus on the varied responses to the failure of Classic period dynasties in the southern lowlands. The contributors offer new insights into the Maya ""collapse,"" evaluating the trope of the scapegoat king and the demise of the traditional institution of kingship in the early ninth century AD--a time of intense environmental, economic, social, political, and even ideological change.

Gyles Iannone, professor of anthropology at Trent University, is the editor of The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.10.2018
Reihe/Serie	Maya Studies
Verlagsort	Florida
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 233 mm
Gewicht	580 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8130-6405-8 / 0813064058
ISBN-13	978-0-8130-6405-5 / 9780813064055
Zustand	Neuware