Bones of the Maya - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bones of the Maya write by Stephen L. Whittington. This book was released on 2006-08-20. Bones of the Maya available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes an indexed bibliography of the first 150 years of Maya osteology. This volume pulls together a spectrum of bioarchaeologists that reveal remarkable data on Maya genetic relationship, demography, and diseases.
The Memory of Bones
The Memory of Bones - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Memory of Bones write by Stephen D. Houston. This book was released on 2013-05-01. The Memory of Bones available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An analysis of the intellectual and emotional life of ancient Mesoamerican people through studies of figural works and inscriptions. All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But is it possible for us, embodied as we are in a particular time and place, to know how people of long ago thought about the body and its experiences? In this groundbreaking book, three leading experts on the Classic Maya (ca. AD 250 to 850) marshal a vast array of evidence from Maya iconography and hieroglyphic writing, as well as archaeological findings, to argue that the Classic Maya developed an approach to the human body that we can recover and understand today. Starting with a cartography of the Maya body as depicted in imagery and texts, the authors explore how the body was replicated in portraiture; how it experienced the world through ingestion, the senses, and the emotions; how the body experienced war and sacrifice and the pain and sexuality; how words, often heaven-sent, could be embodied; and how bodies could be blurred through spirit possession. From these investigations, the authors convincingly demonstrate that the Maya conceptualized the body in varying roles, as a metaphor of time, as a gendered, sexualized being, in distinct stages of life, as an instrument of honor and dishonor, as a vehicle for communication and consumption, as an exemplification of beauty and ugliness, and as a dancer and song-maker. Their findings open a new avenue for empathetically understanding the ancient Maya as living human beings who experienced the world as we do, through the body.
An Osteology of Some Maya Mammals
An Osteology of Some Maya Mammals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Osteology of Some Maya Mammals write by Stanley John Olsen. This book was released on 1982. An Osteology of Some Maya Mammals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)
The Toe Bone and the Tooth
The Toe Bone and the Tooth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Toe Bone and the Tooth write by Martin Prechtel. This book was released on 2004. The Toe Bone and the Tooth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A wonderful blend of polemic, autobiography, travel adventure, and myth.
The Ancient Maya
The Ancient Maya - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ancient Maya write by Jackie Maloy. This book was released on 2010. The Ancient Maya available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides information about the ancient Maya, discussing farming, daily life, beliefs, and other related topics.
