LEADER 04122nam 22006614a 450 001 9910777688803321 005 20230617005824.0 010 $a0-292-79738-9 024 7 $a10.7560/702615 035 $a(CKB)1000000000453936 035 $a(OCoLC)60612439 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245707 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000199519 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11172677 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000199519 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10196907 035 $a(PQKB)10659117 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443233 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2049 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443233 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10245707 035 $a(DE-B1597)587138 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292797383 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000453936 100 $a20040309d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMaya political science$b[electronic resource] $etime, astronomy, and the cosmos /$fby Prudence M. Rice 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (377 p.) 225 1 $aThe Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-70261-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [291]-331) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tNote on Orthography and Dates -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t1. Introduction: Approaches to Maya Political Organization -- $t2. Previous Reconstructions of Classic Maya Political Organization -- $t3. Maya Politico-Religious Calendrics -- $t4. Tikal as Early Seat of the May -- $t5. Tikal's Late and Terminal Classic Seating of the May -- $t6. Other Classic Period May-based Realms -- $t7. New Terminal Classic May Realms -- $t8. Implications of the May Model -- $t9. Conclusion -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aHow did the ancient Maya rule their world? Despite more than a century of archaeological investigation and glyphic decipherment, the nature of Maya political organization and political geography has remained an open question. Many debates have raged over models of centralization versus decentralization, superordinate and subordinate status-with far-flung analogies to emerging states in Europe, Asia, and Africa. But Prudence Rice asserts that neither the model of two giant "superpowers" nor that which postulates scores of small, weakly independent polities fits the accumulating body of material and cultural evidence. In this groundbreaking book, Rice builds a new model of Classic lowland Maya (AD 179-948) political organization and political geography. Using the method of direct historical analogy, she integrates ethnohistoric and ethnographic knowledge of the Colonial-period and modern Maya with archaeological, epigraphic, and iconographic data from the ancient Maya. On this basis of cultural continuity, she constructs a convincing case that the fundamental ordering principles of Classic Maya geopolitical organization were the calendar (specifically a 256-year cycle of time known as the may) and the concept of quadripartition, or the division of the cosmos into four cardinal directions. Rice also examines this new model of geopolitical organization in the Preclassic and Postclassic periods and demonstrates that it offers fresh insights into the nature of rulership, ballgame ritual, and warfare among the Classic lowland Maya. 410 0$aLinda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies. 606 $aMayas$xPolitics and government 606 $aMayas$xHistory 606 $aMayas$xAntiquities 607 $aMexico$xAntiquities 607 $aGuatemala$xAntiquities 615 0$aMayas$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aMayas$xHistory. 615 0$aMayas$xAntiquities. 676 $a320.97281 700 $aRice$b Prudence M$0459736 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777688803321 996 $aMaya political science$93765354 997 $aUNINA