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 | #290655 in Books |  2014-03-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  10.00 x8.00 x.90l,2.22 | File type: PDF | 208 pages

||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| A unique book on a unique civilization.|By Michael D. Coe|Over the past century and a half many hundreds of books have been written about the ancient Maya, but there has never been anything like this one, a masterful and brilliant study of the relation between the material world of the Maya and their own mental constructs. Only someone with Houston's hieroglyphic expertise an

For the Classic Maya, who flourished in and around the Yucatan peninsula in the first millennium AD, artistic materials were endowed with an internal life. Far from being inert substances, jade, flint, obsidian, and wood held a vital essence, agency, and even personality. To work with these materials was to coax their life into full expression and to engage in witty play. Writing, too, could shift from hieroglyphic signs into vibrant glyphs that sprouted torsos, han...

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