The Memory of Bones Book Reviews

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Stephen D. Houston, Stuart David & Karl Taube
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The Memory of Bones by Stephen D. Houston, Stuart David & Karl Taube Book Summary

An analysis of the intellectual and emotional life of ancient Mesoamerican people through studies of figural works and inscriptions.

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 archaeological findings, to argue that the Classic Maya developed an approach to the human body that we can recover and understand today.

Starting with a cartography of the Maya body as depicted in imagery and texts, the authors explore how the body was replicated in portraiture; how it experienced the world through ingestion, the senses, and the emotions; how the body experienced war and sacrifice and the pain and sexuality; how words, often heaven-sent, could be embodied; and how bodies could be blurred through spirit possession.

From these investigations, the authors convincingly demonstrate that the Maya conceptualized the body in varying roles, as a metaphor of time, as a gendered, sexualized being, in distinct stages of life, as an instrument of honor and dishonor, as a vehicle for communication and consumption, as an exemplification of beauty and ugliness, and as a dancer and song-maker. Their findings open a new avenue for empathetically understanding the ancient Maya as living human beings who experienced the world as we do, through the body.

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Book Name The Memory of Bones
Genre Anthropology
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Language English
E-Book Size 21.66 MB

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The The Memory of Bones book written by Stephen D. Houston, Stuart David & Karl Taube was published on 01 May 2013, Wednesday in the Anthropology category. A total of 96 readers of the book gave the book 0 points out of 5.

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