Ritual, violence, and the fall of the classic Maya kings. edited by Gyles Iannone, Brett A. Houk, and Sonja A. Schwake

• Author: Iannone, Gyles;
  Houk, Brett Alan;
  Schwake, Sonja
• Subjects: Mayas -- Rois et souverains;
  Mayas -- Politique et gouvernement;
  Mayas -- Rites et cérémonies;
  Violence -- Histoire -- Mexique;
  Violence -- Histoire -- Amérique centrale;
  Mayas -- Kings and rulers;
  Mayas -- Politics and government;
  Mayas -- Social conditions;
  Ritual -- History -- Mexico;
  Ritual -- History -- Central America;
  Violence -- History -- Mexico;
  Violence -- History -- Central America;
  Mayas -- Antiquities;
  Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities;
  Indians of Central America -- Antiquities;
  Central America;
  Mexico
• Description: Bibliographie p. 285-338. Index
  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
  
• Related Titles: Series: Maya studies - University Press of Florida
• Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, cop. 2016
  
• Creation Date: cop. 2016
  
• Format: 1 vol. (XV-361 p.) : ill., cartes, couv. ill. en coul. ; 24 cm
  
• Language: English