Andrew k scherer (23 Ergebnisse)

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Brown hardback cloth cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition with lightly creased dust jacket. 290mm x 230mm (11" x 9"). vii, 424pp. Heavy book - extra shipping needed for overseas.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1K; HBJK; JHM; JWA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 287 x 229 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1436. . 2014. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 424 pages. 11.00x8.75x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. 2018. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 344 pages. 11.01x8.51x11.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. 2025. hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: New. pp. 324.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 471 pages. 11.00x8.75x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An exploration of war, violence, and sacrifice in precolonial Maya culture and its importance in religious practices.As the Gods Kill delivers new insights into warfare, weaponry, violence, and human sacrifice among the ancient Maya. While attending to the particularity of a singular historical context, anthropologist and archaeologist Andrew Scherer also suggests that Maya practices have something to tell us about human propensities toward violence more broadly. Focusing on moral frameworks surrounding deliberate injury and killing, Scherer examines Maya justifications of violence-in particular the obligations to one another, to ancestors, and to the gods that made violence not only permissible but necessary. The analysis isolates key themes underpinning the morality of violence-including justice, vengeance, payment, and costumbre (ritual)-and explores the ethics of violent agents, including warriors, ritual specialists, and the gods. Finally, Scherer addresses motivations for warfare, including the acquisition of spoils, tribute, captives, and slaves. An interdisciplinary case study of morality in an ancient society, As the Gods Kill synthesizes scholarship on an important dimension of precolonial American culture while taking stock of its implications for the social sciences at large.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 408 pages. 11.00x8.50x11.00 inches. In Stock.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Substance of the Ancient Maya: Kingdoms and Communities, Objects and Beings collects twelve essays by top scholars, highlighting what is new in research pertaining to the ancient Maya. Subjects range from updated political histories of major kingdoms in the southern Maya Lowlands to explorations of the nature of Maya writing and materiality. These essays were inspired by the scholarship of Stephen Houston and celebrate his transdisciplinary commitment to research in anthropological archaeology, epigraphy, and art history.Collectively, these contributions show how the objects and beings that composed the Classic Maya world were both literal and sacred substances that mediated relations not only among living people but with gods and ancestors. A final chapter by Stephen Houston reflects on unfinished projects of the ancient Maya as a metaphor for all of the work yet to be done to move forward in our studies of the past.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Black cloth in unclipped jacket. 291 pp. Black and white illustrations and photographs throughout, along with a section of color plates. A detailed study of a broad range of burial practices of the Maya from AD 250 to 900, integrating archaeology, iconography, epigraphy and other fields into the work. VERY GOOD condition. Light fading and rubbing to the jacket, with minor curling along the upper edge. Light fading and edgewear to the book.…