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Maya Palaces and Elite Residences
2010·352 pages
Scholarly essays on ancient Maya palaces, elite residences, ritual use, and social and cosmological meaning across major Mesoamerican sites.
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Scholarly essays on ancient Maya palaces, elite residences, ritual use, and social and cosmological meaning across major Mesoamerican sites.
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Maya "palaces" have intrigued students of this ancient Mesoamerican culture since the early twentieth century, when scholars first applied the term "palace" to multi-room, gallery-like buildings set on low platforms in the centers of Maya cities. Who lived in these palaces? What types of ceremonial and residential activities took place there? How do the physical forms and spatial arrangement of the buildings embody Maya concepts of social organization and cosmology? This book brings together sta...
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Sexual content
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Violence & gore
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Brief academic mentions of conflict or ceremonial practices in historical context
Profanity
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Substance use
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No substance use depicted
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Recurring academic discussion of Maya ritual, ceremony, and cosmology
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Recurring analysis of Maya elite power, social hierarchy, and organization
Self-harm / suicide
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