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Mesoamerican writing systems: propaganda, myth, and history in four ancient civilizations
Joyce Marcus
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Frontmatter
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List of Illustrations (page ix)
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List of Tables (page xv)
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Preface (page xvii)
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Acknowledgments (page xxi)
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1 Truth, Propaganda, and Noble Speech (page 3)
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2 The Evolutionary Context of Early Writing (page 17)
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3 Mesoamerica's Four Major Writing Systems: The Ethnohistoric Background (page 45)
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4 Not One Calendar, but Many (page 95)
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5 Rewriting History (page 143)
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6 Place Names and the Establishment of Political Territories (page 153)
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7 The Naming of Nobles (page 191)
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8 Royal Marriages (page 223)
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9 Euhemerism and Royal Ancestors (page 261)
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10 Accession to the Throne (page 303)
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11 Raiding and Warfare (page 353)
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12 An Anthropological Theory of Mesoamerican Writing (page 435)
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Appendix: A Statistical Analysis of Mixtec Nobles' Names by Robert Whallon (page 447)
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References Cited (page 465)
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Index (page 489)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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BLAR | 14.3 (Sep. 1995): 368-369 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3339333 |
HAHR | 74.4 (Nov. 1994): 713-715 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2517514 |
AMER | 51.1 (Jul. 1994): 117-119 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1008363 |
ETH | 41.3 (Summer 1994): 484-485 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/481843 |
AANTH | 96.3 (Sep. 1994): 716-718 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/682323 |
ANL | 36.3 (Fall 1994): 382-385 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/30028030 |
JFA | 21.2 (Summer 1994): 251-253 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/529872 |
AHR | 99.4 (Oct. 1994): 1432-1434 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2168986 |
LARR | 31.1 (1996): 259-266 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2503861 |
Citable Link
Published: c1992
Publisher: Princeton University Press
- 9781400849802 (ebook)
- 9780691094748 (hardcover)