Palaces and Courtly Culture in Ancient Mesoamerica
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Palaces and Courtly Culture in Ancient Mesoamerica

  1. 138 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Palaces and Courtly Culture in Ancient Mesoamerica

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Mesoamerica is one of the cradles of early civilizations in the ancient world, featuring a wide diversity of cultures exhibiting a high degree of social inequality and stratification. At the pinnacle of the society was the ruler, the court and the high elite. This social segment was responsible for the creation and consumption of the hallmarks of civilizations, including monumental architecture, great monolithic monuments and a wide array of highly decorated, exotic and exceptional material culture. As such royal courts defined the very tastes and styles that characterise entire civilizations. This volume collects eight recent and innovative studies on the subject rulership, palatial compounds and courtly culture by staff and students of the American Indian Languages and Culture studies programme at Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Together these studies span the breadth of Mesoamerica, from the Early Classic metropolis of Teotihuacan (ad 200-550), to Tenochtitlan, the Late Postclassic capital of the Aztec (ad 1300-1521), and from the arid central Mexican highlands in the west to the humid Maya lowlands in the east.

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Table of contents

  1. Book cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. List of Tables
  7. Palaces and Courtly Culture in Ancient Mesoamerica: An Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: Where Kings Once Ruled? Considerations on Palaces and Rulership at Teotihuacan
  9. Chapter 2: Identifying the Provenance and Dating of
  10. Chapter 3: Rekindling the Past
  11. Chapter 4: The Center of Power: Tasks and Strategies of the Mexica Court
  12. Chapter 5: Courtly Etiquette and Eloquent Speech in Ancient Mesoamerica
  13. Chapter 6: How the Other Half Lives: The Role and Function of Body Paint at Maya Courts
  14. Chapter 7: The Late Classic Maya Court of Namaan (La Florida, Guatemala)
  15. Chapter 8: Royal Bundle Ceremonies at Yaxchilan