Author: F. J. S. GRACEPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Pok-ta-pok" Or "Tlachtli." An Enquiry Into this Ancient American Game, Its Rules and Methods of Play ... Collated and Translated by F.J.S. Grace, Etc. [With Plates.].
Author: F. J. S. GRACEThe Maya Ball-game Pok-ta-pok
Author: Frans Ferdinand BlomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
"Pok-ta-pok" Or "Tlachtli"
Author: The Maya Ball-game Pok-ta-pok (called Tlachtli by the Aztec) ; The "negative Batter" at Uxmal
Author: Frans Ferdinand BlomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maya architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology
Author: Barbara Ann KipferPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475751338
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
A modern, comprehensive compilation of more than 7,000 entries covering themes, concepts, and discoveries in archaeology written in nontechnical language and tailored to meet the needs of professionals, students and general readers. The main subject areas include artifacts; branches of archaeology, chronology; culture; features; flora and fauna; geography; geology; language; people; related fields; sites; structures; techniques and methods; terms and theories; and tools.
American Indian Sports Heritage
Author: Joseph B. OxendinePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803286092
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
“Neither the highly commercialized nature of professional sports today nor the more casual attitude prevailing in amateur activities captures the essence of Indian sport,” writes Joseph B. Oxendine. Through sport, Indians sought blessings from a higher spirit. Sport that evolved from religious rites retained a spiritual dimension, as seen in the attitude and manner of preparing and participating. In American Indian Sports Heritage, Oxendine discusses the history and importance in everyday life of ball games (especially lacrosse), running, archery, swimming, snow snake, hoop-and-pole, and games of chance. Indians gained nationwide visibility as athletes in baseball and football; the teams at boarding schools such as the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania and the Haskell Institute in Kansas were especially famous. Oxendine describes the apex of Indian sports during the first three decades of the twentieth century and chronicles the decline since. He looks at the career of the legendary Jim Thorpe and provides brief biographies of other Indian athletes before and after 1930.
The Mesoamerican Ballgame
Author: Vernon L. ScarboroughPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816513604
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The Precolumbian ballgame, played on a masonry court, has long intrigued scholars because of the magnificence of its archaeological remains. From its lowland Maya origins it spread throughout the Aztec empire, where the game was so popular that sixteen thousand rubber balls were imported annually into Tenochtitlan. It endured for two thousand years, spreading as far as to what is now southern Arizona. This new collection of essays brings together research from field archaeology, mythology, and Maya hieroglyphic studies to illuminate this important yet puzzling aspect of Native American culture. The authors demonstrate that the game was more than a spectator sport; serving social, political, mythological, and cosmological functions, it celebrated both fertility and the afterlife, war and peace, and became an evolving institution functioning in part to resolve conflict within and between groups. The contributors provide complete coverage of the archaeological, sociopolitical, iconographic, and ideological aspects of the game, and offer new information on the distribution of ballcourts, new interpretations of mural art, and newly perceived relations of the game with material in the Popol Vuh. With its scholarly attention to a subject that will fascinate even general readers, The Mesoamerican Ballgame is a major contribution to the study of the mental life and outlook of New World peoples.
Pok ta Pok en Chichén Itzá
Author: Federica Sodi MirandaPublisher:
ISBN: 9786079544669
Category : Chichén Itzá Site (Mexico)
Languages : es
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Ancient Maya of Mexico
Author: Geoffrey E BraswellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317543599
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
The archaeological sites of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula are among the most visited ancient cities of the Americas. Archaeologists have recently made great advances in our understanding of the social and political milieu of the northern Maya lowlands. However, such advances have been under-represented in both scholarly and popular literature until now. 'The Ancient Maya of Mexico' presents the results of new and important archaeological, epigraphic, and art historical research in the Mexican states of Yucatan, Campeche, and Quintana Roo. Ranging across the Middle Preclassic to the Modern periods, the volume explores how new archaeological data has transformed our understanding of Maya history. 'The Ancient Maya of Mexico' will be invaluable to students and scholars of archaeology and anthropology, and all those interested in the society, rituals and economic organisation of the Maya region.
Ulama
Author: Ted LeyenaarPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004545336
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description