Everyday Life in the Classic Maya World

"Using the most up to date information from a variety of disciplines, Ardren uses stories of individual Maya people, to create a narrative that takes the reader from rural homestead to agricultural field and forest, and on to the marketplace, palace, and trading port of a royal Maya city"--

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The domestic world; 3. Fields and forests; 4. Into the city; 5. Palace life; To the coast; 7. Conclusion.

About the author

Traci Ardren is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Miami. Her research has been supported by the National Geographic Society and the National Science Foundation. She is the author of Social Identities in the Classic Maya Northern Lowlands: Gender, Age, Memory, and Place (University of Texas Press, 2015), editor of Her Cup for Sweet Cacao: Food in Ancient Maya Society (University of Texas Press, 2020), and co-editor of The Maya World (Routledge, 2020).

Summary

Using the most up to date information from a variety of disciplines, Ardren uses stories of individual Maya people, to create a narrative that takes the reader from rural homestead to agricultural field and forest, and on to the marketplace, palace, and trading port of a royal Maya city.

Product details

• Authors: Tracey Ardren, Tracey (University of Miami) Ardren, Traci Ardren, Traci (University of Miami) Ardren, Ardren Traci
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9781107040670
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04067-0
• No. of pages: 275
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Latin America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, CE period up to c 1500, Archaeology by period / region, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Pre-Columbian America, Mayan states / Mayan civilisations