An edition of Lords of Creation (2005)

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the origins of sacred Maya kingship

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Lords of Creation: The Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship
July 25, 2006, Scala Publishers
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Lords of creation: the origins of sacred Maya kingship
2005, Scala, In association with Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Table of Contents

Introduction: the first sacred kings of Mesoamerica / Virginia M Fields with Dorie Reents-Budet
Between heaven and earth: the cival cache and the creation of the Mesoamerican cosmos / Jeremy R. Bauer
Olmec ideological, ritual, and symbolic contributions to the institution of classic Maya kingship / F. Kent Reilly III
Late preclassic expressions of authority on the Pacific slope / Julia Guernsey and Michael Love
The principal bird deity in preclassic and early classic art / Constance Cortez
Preclassic architecture, ritual, and the emergence of cultural complexity: a diachronic perspective from the Belize Valley / M Kathryn Brown and James F. Garber
The creation mountains: structure 5C-2nd and late preclassic kingship / David A Freidel
Precincts for gods and men: the architecture of the cities of the Peten, Guatemala / Juan Antonio Valdés
Early social complexity and kingship in the Mirador Basin / Richard D Hansen and Stanley P Guenter
The sacred mountain: preclassic architecture in Calakmul / Ramón Carrasco Vargas
Building a dynasty: early classic kingship at Copan / Ellen E Bell
Rosalila: temple of the sun king at Copan / Richardo Agurcia Fasquelle
The origins of Maya writing / Federico Fahsen and Nikolai Grube
Strangers in the Maya area: early classic interaction with Teotihuacan / Robert J Sharer and Simon Martin
Dancing in the footsteps of the ancestors / Allen J Christenson
Catalogue / Virginia M Fields and Dorie Reents-Budet.

Edition Notes

Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sept. 10, 2005-Jan. 2, 2006; Dallas Museum of Art, Feb. 12-May 7, 2006; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 11-Sept. 10, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-280) and index.

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