Ritual, violence, and the fall of the classic Maya kings / edited by Gyles Iannone, Brett A. Houk, and Sonja A. Schwake.
Iannone, Gyles, editor.; Houk, Brett A. (Brett Alan), 1967- editor.; Schwake, Sonja A., editor.
2016
F1435.3.P7 R58 2016
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Title Ritual, violence, and the fall of the classic Maya kings / edited by Gyles Iannone, Brett A. Houk, and Sonja A. Schwake.
ISBN 9780813062754
9780813055770 (electronic book)
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description 1 online resource (385 pages) : illustrations, map.
Call Number F1435.3.P7 R58 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 972/.6
Summary This volume explores the links between the declining prosperity of the Late to Terminal Classic period and the erosion of kingly legitimacy. Exploring issues such as the rise of inflation, greater demand of tax and tribute, deforestation due to over-population, and drought conditions, the essayists examine what happens to a society when the king, who should be appeasing the gods, is seen as the problem.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author Iannone, Gyles, editor.
Houk, Brett A. (Brett Alan), 1967- editor.
Schwake, Sonja A., editor.
Series Maya studies.
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Foreword / Christopher C. Taylor
Introduction / Gyles Iannone, Brett A. Houk, and Sonja A. Schwake
Cross-cultural perspectives on the scapegoat king: the anatomy of a model / Gyles Iannone
Killing the "Kings of Stone": the defacement of classic Maya monuments / Eleanor Harrison-Buck
Concepts of legitimacy and social dynamics: termination ritual and the last king of Aguateca, Guatemala / Takeshi Inomata
The life and afterlife of the classic period Piedras Negras Kingdom / Charles Golden, Andrew K. Scherer, Melanie Kingsley, Stephen D. Houston, and Héctor Escobedo
Destruction events and political truncation at the little kingdom of Minanha, Belize / Sonja A. Schwake and Gyles Iannone
The collapses in the West and the violent ritual termination of the classic Maya capital center of Cancuen: causes and consequences / Arthur A. Demarest, Claudia Quintanilla, and José Samuel Suasnavar
Social-political manifestations of the terminal classic: Colha, Northern Belize as a case study
Palma J. Buttles and Fred Valdez Jr
Signs of the times: terminal classic surface deposits and the fates of Maya kingdoms in Northwestern Belize / Brett A. Houk
Events and processes leading to the abandonment of the Maya city of Blue Creek, Belize / Thomas H. Guderjan and C. Colleen Hanratty
Dynamic transitions at El Perú-Wakaʹ: late terminal classic ritual repurposing of a monumental shrine / Olivia C. Navarro-Farr
Lords of the life force and their people: reflections on ritual violence and reverence in the Maya Archaeological record / David Freidel.

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