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OverviewAn exploration of how the ancient Maya engaged with their history by using, altering, and burying stone sculptures. For the ancient Maya, monumental stone sculptures were infused with agency. As they were used, reused, altered, and buried, such sculptures retained ceremonial meaning. In Memory in Fragments, Megan E. O'Neil explores how ancient Maya people engaged with history through these sculptures, as well as how they interacted with the stones themselves over the course of the sculptures’ long “lives.” Considering Maya religious practices, historiography, and conceptions of materials and things, O’Neil explores how Maya viewers perceived sculptures that were fragmented, scarred, burned, damaged by enemies, or set in unusual locations. In each case, she demonstrates how different human interactions, amid dynamic religious, political, and historical contexts, led to new episodes in the sculptures' lives. A rare example of cross-temporal and geographical work in this field, Memory in Fragments both compares sculptures within ancient Maya culture across Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize over hundreds of years and reveals how memory may accrue around and be evoked in material remains. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Megan E. O'NeilPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Dimensions: Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 27.90cm Weight: 1.107kg ISBN: 9781477329399ISBN 10: 1477329390 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 02 July 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations A Note on Language, Spelling, and Calendar Conventions Preface and Acknowledgments Section I. Shaping the Present and the Past Chapter 1. Fragments of and in the Past Chapter 2. Multidisciplinary Methodologies and Theoretical Approaches Chapter 3. About Time: Engaging Time, History, and Materiality Section II. Breakage and Reuse Chapter 4. Violence, Transformation, and Renewal: Material Changes to Ancient Maya Sculptures Chapter 5. Memory and Materiality of Reused, Reset, and Repurposed Monuments Section III. Burial Chapter 6. Ancient Maya Sculptures, Seen and Unseen: Part I, Burial and Renewal Chapter 7. Ancient Maya Sculptures, Seen and Unseen: Part II, Sculptures Buried in Architecture Conclusion. Lives of Things Notes Works Cited IndexReviewsAuthor InformationMegan E. O'Neil is an assistant professor of art history at Emory University; the author of Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala and The Maya; and the coauthor of a revised edition of Maya Art and Architecture. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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