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Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dediction 6 Table of Contents 8 List of Tables and Illustrations 10 Preface 14 Obituary: Floyd Lounsbury 16 Introduction 22 1 Opening the Royal Maya Court 24 PART ONE Theoretical and Thematic Approaches 46 2 King's People: Classic Maya Courtiers in a Comparative Perspective 48 3 Peopling the Classic Maya Court 75 4 Perspectives on Actors, Gender Roles, and Architecture at Classic Maya Courts and Households 105 5 Spatial Dimensions of Maya Courtly Life: Problems and Issues 151 6 Court and Realm: Architectural Signatures in the Classic Maya Southern Lowlands 189 7 Classic Maya Concepts of the Royal Court: An Analysis of Renderings on Pictorial Ceramics 216 PART TWO Comparative Views and Conclusions 256 8 Aztec Noble Courts: Men, Women, and Children of the Palace 258 9 Concluding Remarks 295 List of Contributors 300 Index 302
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- Author
- Takeshi Inomata and Stephen D. Houston
- Publisher
- Westview
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
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