This is an anthropological study of the role of hieroglyphic writing in the prehispanic Aztec, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Maya states. First, Joyce Marcus compares the four systems with regard to eight major themes: calendrics, the naming of nobles, the naming of places, royal marriages, accession to the throne, divine ancestors, warfare, and the rewriting of history. Then she establishes a new theoretical framework within which to conduct further analysis. Her basic contention is that ancient Mesoamerican writing was a tool used ...
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This is an anthropological study of the role of hieroglyphic writing in the prehispanic Aztec, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Maya states. First, Joyce Marcus compares the four systems with regard to eight major themes: calendrics, the naming of nobles, the naming of places, royal marriages, accession to the throne, divine ancestors, warfare, and the rewriting of history. Then she establishes a new theoretical framework within which to conduct further analysis. Her basic contention is that ancient Mesoamerican writing was a tool used by an elite minority in their competition for positions of leadership, prestige, territory, tribute, and advantageous marriages. Marcus convincingly demonstrates that while it may have been based on actual persons and events, this body of prehistoric writing is a deliberately created tangle of what we could call propaganda, myth, and fact, written for political purposes, and not (as many contemporary scholars have come to believe) reliable "history" in a modern sense. "This is a major contribution. The scholarship is first-rate!"--Jeremy A. Sabloff, University of Pittsburgh "A brilliant work, carefully reasoned and effectively argued, but balanced and not overstated. The scholarship is truly outstanding. Joyce Marcus is one of the great Mesoamericanists of our generation."--E. Wyllys Andrews V, Tulane University "A masterful piece of work. We are in the presence of a tour de force."--Robert L. Carneiro, American Museum of Natural History
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Near Fine in good jacket. First edition, 1992. Oblong quarto, cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, 495 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Good dust jacket, age-toning and soiling to the dust jacket, edgewear to the dust jacket including creasing, tearing, and a bit of loss. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
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Near fine in very good jacket. Near fine first edition in a very good dust jacket. Cream paper boards over green quarter cloth binding. Cream paper showing darkening at top edge. Otherwise clean and bright. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Dust jacket has three tiny closed tears at top edge, and sunning on back cover near spine. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Fully illustrated with maps, charts, pictures and graphs. 495 pp. including index. Quarto, 10 x 9 1/2 inches tall. Heavy and large, additional shipping will be billed at actual cost. Chapters: Truth, Propaganda, and Noble Speech; The Evolutionary Context of Early Writing; Mesoamerica's Four Major Writing Systems: The Ethnohistoric Background; Not One Calendar, but Many; Rewriting History; Place Names and the Establishment of Political Territories; The Naming of Nobles; Royal Marriages; Euhemerism and Royal Ancestors; Accession to the Throne; Raiding and Warfare; An Anthropological Theory of Mesoamerican Writing.
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