LEADER 04352nam 22007334a 450 001 9910820194303321 005 20230828232143.0 010 $a0-292-79583-1 024 7 $a10.7560/709997 035 $a(CKB)1000000000467069 035 $a(OCoLC)191940929 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10194789 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000269261 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11227512 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000269261 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10243735 035 $a(PQKB)11673305 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443111 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2224 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443111 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10194789 035 $a(DE-B1597)588596 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292795839 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000467069 100 $a20050926d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWater and ritual$b[electronic resource] $ethe rise and fall of classic Maya rulers /$fLisa J. Lucero 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (270 p.) 225 1 $aThe Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-70999-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [203]-237) and index. 327 $aWater and ritual -- Classic Maya political histories -- Maya rituals : past and present -- Community and the Maya : the ritual history of Saturday Creek -- Local rulers and the Maya : the ritual history of Altar de Sacrificios -- Regional rulers and the Maya : the ritual history of Tikal -- The rise and fall of classic Maya rulers -- Water, ritual, and politics in ancient complex societies. 330 $aIn the southern Maya lowlands, rainfall provided the primary and, in some areas, the only source of water for people and crops. Classic Maya kings sponsored elaborate public rituals that affirmed their close ties to the supernatural world and their ability to intercede with deities and ancestors to ensure an adequate amount of rain, which was then stored to provide water during the four-to-five-month dry season. As long as the rains came, Maya kings supplied their subjects with water and exacted tribute in labor and goods in return. But when the rains failed at the end of the Classic period (AD 850-950), the Maya rulers lost both their claim to supernatural power and their temporal authority. Maya commoners continued to supplicate gods and ancestors for rain in household rituals, but they stopped paying tribute to rulers whom the gods had forsaken. In this paradigm-shifting book, Lisa Lucero investigates the central role of water and ritual in the rise, dominance, and fall of Classic Maya rulers. She documents commoner, elite, and royal ritual histories in the southern Maya lowlands from the Late Preclassic through the Terminal Classic periods to show how elites and rulers gained political power through the public replication and elaboration of household-level rituals. At the same time, Lucero demonstrates that political power rested equally on material conditions that the Maya rulers could only partially control. Offering a new, more nuanced understanding of these dual bases of power, Lucero makes a compelling case for spiritual and material factors intermingling in the development and demise of Maya political complexity. 410 0$aLinda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies. 606 $aMayas$xPolitics and government 606 $aMayas$xKings and rulers 606 $aMayas$xRites and ceremonies 606 $aWater rights$zCentral America 606 $aWater rights$zMexico 606 $aWater$xReligious aspects 607 $aCentral America$xEconomic conditions 607 $aMexico$xEconomic conditions 615 0$aMayas$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aMayas$xKings and rulers. 615 0$aMayas$xRites and ceremonies. 615 0$aWater rights 615 0$aWater rights 615 0$aWater$xReligious aspects. 676 $a305.897/42 700 $aLucero$b Lisa Joyce$f1962-$01613861 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820194303321 996 $aWater and ritual$93943373 997 $aUNINA