The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya

by David Stuart, Karl A. Taube, Stephen Houston, et al.

Book Overview

All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But is it possible for us, embodied as we are in a particular time and place, to know how people of long ago thought about the body and its experiences? In this groundbreaking book, three leading experts on the Classic Maya (ca. AD 250 to 850) marshal a vast array of evidence from Maya iconography and hieroglyphic writing, as well as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292713193
• ISBN13: 9780292713192
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.0"