The Memory of Bones
The Memory of Bones All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. In this groundbreaking book, three leading experts on the Classic…
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The Memory of Bones
All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. In this groundbreaking book, three leading experts on the Classic Maya (ca. 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?
They go on to explore such issues as how the body was replicated in portraiture; how it experienced the world through ingestion, the senses, and the emotions; how the body AD 250 to 850) marshal a vast array of evidence from Maya iconography and hieroglyphic writing, as well as archaeological findings, to argue that the Classic Maya developed a coherent approach to the human body that we can recover and understand today.The authors open with a cartography of the Maya body, its parts and their meanings, as depicted in imagery and texts.