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" Function and meaning in classic Maya architecture : "
Stephen D. Houston, editor.
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BL
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1021036
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b775406
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Function and meaning in classic Maya architecture : : a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 7th and 8th October 1994 /\ Stephen D. Houston, editor.
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Washington, DC :: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection,, ©1998.
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viii, 562 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm.
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0884022544
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: 9780884022541
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Classic Maya architecture: implications and comparisons / David Webster -- Continuity and disjunction: the pre-classic antecedents of classic Maya architecture / Richard D. Hansen -- Structures as sites: the construction process and Maya architecture / Elliot M. Abrams -- What do houses mean? Approaches to the analysis of classic Maya commoner residences / Kevin J. Johnston and Nancy Gonlin -- A design for meaning in Maya architecture / Mary Miller -- Dynastic architectural programs: intention and design in classic Maya buildings at Copan and other sites / William L. Fash -- Ancestors and the classic Maya built environment / Patricia A. McAnany -- The architectural context of caches, burials, and other ritual activities for the classic period Maya (as reflected at Caracol, Belize) / Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase -- Classic Maya depictions of the built environment / Stephen D. Houston -- 'The fire enters his house': architecture and ritual in classic Maya texts / David Stuart -- The jade hearth: centrality, rulership, and the classic Maya temple / Karl Taube -- The iconography of Maya architectural façades during the late classic period / Linda Schele -- Finding function and meaning in classic Maya architecture / Stephen D. Houston.
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Maya architecture, Congresses.
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21.62 history of architecture.
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Architecture maya, Congrès.
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Architektur
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Kongress
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Maya architecture.
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Präkolumbische Zeit
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Bouwkunst.
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Maya's.
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Maya.
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720/.97281
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F1435.3.A6F85 1998
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21.62bcl
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Houston, Stephen D.
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