Maya Script: A Civilization and Its Writing: The Civilization and Its Writing - Hardcover

Longhena, Maria

 
9780789206534: Maya Script: A Civilization and Its Writing: The Civilization and Its Writing
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0789206536 ISBN 13: 9780789206534
Verlag: Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S., 2000

Inhaltsangabe

This volume presents about 200 Maya glyphs (symbolic figures). Some are ideograms (pictorial symbols representing things, not words); others are phonetic signs. The glyphs express people, animals, things, and such abstract concepts as death. Each one opens a window onto fragments of everyday life, religious beliefs, or even emotions. The complexity of the Maya calendar, mathematical computations, and astronomy reveals a highly-developed civilization. This book also features two-colour drawings of the glyphs, illustrations from reliefs and Spanish codices, and examples of Maya sculpture and paintings. Concluding the book is a chapter on writing systems of the New World, a list of museums to visit, a bibliography, and an index of glyphs.

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Verlag
Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0789206536
ISBN 13 
9780789206534
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
180
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