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Reading the Maya Glyphs 2E PA

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    9780500285534

  • ISBN10:

    0500285535

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-06-17
  • Publisher: Thames & Hudson

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Summary

Decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing has progressed to the point where most Maya written texts'”whether inscribed on monuments, written in the codices, or painted or incised on ceramics'”can now be read with confidence. In this practical guide, first published in 2001, Michael D. Coe, the noted Mayanist, and Mark Van Stone, an accomplished calligrapher, have made the difficult, often mysterious script accessible to the nonspecialist. They decipher real Maya texts, and the transcriptions include a picture of the glyph, the pronunciation, the Maya words in Roman type, and the translation into English. For the second edition, the authors have taken the latest research and breakthroughs into account, adding glyphs, updating captions, and reinterpreting or expanding upon earlier decipherments. After an introductory discussion of Maya culture and history and the nature of the Maya script, the authors introduce the glyphs in a series of chapters that elaborate on topics such as the intricate calendar, warfare, royal lives and rituals, politics, dynastic names, ceramics, relationships, and the supernatural world. The book includes illustrations of historic texts, a syllabary, a lexicon, and translation exercises.

Author Biography

Michael D. Coe is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Curator Emeritus in the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University. In 1986 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and in 1989 received the Tatiana Proskouriakoff Award from Harvard University for distinction in Mesoamerican research Mark Van Stone trained as a type designer, stone carver, and art historian. For over two decades he has studied the development of written forms from the perspective of a working calligrapher. Now completing his doctoral dissertation on Maya scribal workshop practice, he is the leading interpreter of Maya calligraphic art

Table of Contents

PREFACE 7(91)
1 THE CULTURAL BACKGROUND OF MAYA WRITING
11(6)
1.1 Overview of a civilization
11(2)
1.2 Scribes and artists
13(2)
1.3 The language of the inscriptions
15(2)
2 THE NATURE OF THE MAYA SCRIPT
17(20)
2.1 Principles
17(3)
2.2 Syllabograms
20(2)
2.3 Morphosyllabic signs
22(2)
2.4 Logograms with phonetic complements
24(1)
2.5 Polyvalence
25(1)
2.6 Conflation
26(1)
2.7 Some grammar
26(9)
2.7.1 Nouns
27(1)
2.7.2 Gender
28(1)
2.7.3 Pronouns
29(2)
2.7.4 Adjectives
31(1)
2.7.5 Verbs
32(3)
2.8 Locative prepositions
35(2)
3 TIME AND THE CALENDAR
37(22)
3.1 General remarks
37(1)
3.2 Maya numbers
38(2)
3.3 The Calendar Round
40(5)
3.3.1 The 260-day Count
41(1)
3.3.2 The Haab
42(3)
3.4 The Long Count and the Initial Series
45(8)
3.4.1 The Initial Series
48(1)
3.4.2 The Supplementary Series
49(4)
3.5 Distance Numbers, Period Endings, and anniversaries
53(6)
4 ROYAL LIVES AND ROYAL RITUALS
59(9)
4.1 General remarks
59(1)
4.2 Life-cycle events
59(4)
4.2.1 Birth
59(2)
4.2.2 Accession
61(1)
4.2.3 Death and burial
62(1)
4.3 Ritual activities
63(5)
4.3.1 Period Ending rites
63(1)
4.3.2 Bloodletting
64(1)
4.3.3 God impersonation
65(1)
4.3.4 Royal dance
65(1)
4.3.5 Ballplaying and ballcourts
66(1)
4.3.6 Postscript
67(1)
5 PLACES AND POLITIES
68(6)
5.1 Emblem Glyphs
68(3)
5.2 Toponyms (place names)
71(3)
6 DYNASTIC NAMES AND TITLES
74(12)
6.1 Titles
74(5)
6.2 Rulers
79(7)
7 RELATIONSHIPS
86(3)
7.1 Parentage statements
86(1)
7.2 Spouse
87(1)
7.3 Siblings
88(1)
8 WARFARE
89(5)
8.1 Glyphs for general war
89(1)
8.2 The taking of prisoners
90(4)
9 SCRIBES AND ARTISTS
94(4)
9.1 Users of brush pens
94(1)
9.2 Carvers
95(1)
9.3 Other titles for artists and scribes
96(2)
10 CERAMIC TEXTS 98(10)
10.1 General remarks
98(1)
10.2 The Primary Standard Sequence (PSS)
99(9)
11 THE SUPERNATURAL WORLD 108(15)
11.1 General remarks
108(1)
11.2 Divinity and godhead
109(1)
11.3 The major gods
110(8)
11.4 Paired gods
118(1)
11.5 Triads
118(1)
11.6 The Death Gods
119(2)
11.7 The way spirit-companions
121(2)
12 THE INANIMATE AND ANIMATE WORLDS 123(14)
12.1 The physical world
123(5)
12.1.1 The directions
123(2)
12.1.2 The colors
125(1)
12.1.3 The sky and the earth
126(2)
12.2 Humans
128(1)
12.3 Animals
129(3)
12.4 Buildings and structures
132(1)
12.5 Stone objects
133(2)
12.6 Pottery vessels
135(1)
12.7 Costume and personal adornment
135(2)
Illustration Examples 137(18)
Syllabary 155(6)
A Maya Lexicon 161(6)
Calendrical Formulae and Tables 167(1)
Software Programs 168(1)
Exercise Answers 169(3)
Brief Bibliography 172(1)
Acknowledgments 173(1)
Index 174

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