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 | #350861 in Books |  1993-01-11 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.75 x10.75 x1.25l, | File type: PDF | 517 pages

 | Hardback book on Propaganda,Myth, and History of Four Civilizations.

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||8 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Ancient Mesoamerican Writing and What It Tells Us|By Mike O'Brien|Marcus's volume is the most comprehensive book on the market in the field of Mesoamerican epigraphy, the study of ancient writing systems among four high cultures that arose in what was later to become Mexico and Guatemala: the Aztec, Zapotec, Mixtec, and Maya. Marcus is recognized as one of the preeminent scho| |"With her many years on the Maya and Zapotec as an ethnohistorian and archaeologist, Marcus is perhaps uniquely qualified to present a detailed comparative and synthetic treatment of all of these writing systems.... Marcus's own clear writing, the exhaustive c

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...

You easily download any file type for your device.Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations   |  Joyce Marcus.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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