Philosophy of the Ancient Maya

Philosophy of the Ancient Maya
Author: Alexus McLeod
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2017-12-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1498531393

This book investigates some of the central topics of metaphysics in the philosophical thought of the Maya people of Mesoamerica, particularly from the Preclassic through Postclassic periods. This book covers the topics of time, change, identity, and truth, through comparative investigation integrating Maya texts and practices—such as Classic Period stelae, Postclassic Codices, and Colonial-era texts such as the Popol Vuh and the books of Chilam Balam—and early Chinese philosophy.

Ancient Maya Politics

Ancient Maya Politics
Author: Simon Martin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2020-06-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108483887

With new readings of ancient texts, Ancient Maya Politics unlocks the long-enigmatic political system of the Classic Maya.

Ancient Maya

Ancient Maya
Author: Arthur Demarest
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2004-12-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521533904

Ancient Maya comes to life in this new holistic and theoretical study.

The Ancient Maya

The Ancient Maya
Author: Sylvanus Griswold Morley
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 940
Release: 1994
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780804721301

"Comprehensive synthesis of ancient Maya scholarship. Extensive summary of the archaeology of the Maya world provides the historical context for a detailed topical synthesis of chronological and geographic variability within the Maya cultural tradition"--

The Doctrine of Maya in the Philosophy of the Vedanta

The Doctrine of Maya in the Philosophy of the Vedanta
Author: Prabhu Dutt Shastri
Publisher: Palala Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2018-02-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781378646502

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"Veil of Maya, The"

Author: Douglas L. Berger
Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2004-05-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781586842437

Explores the interpretive problems, complexities, and legacies of Schopenhauer’s encounter with ancient India.

Popol Vuh

Popol Vuh
Author:
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 0684818450

One of the most extraordinary works of the human imagination and the most important text in the native languages of the Americas, Popul Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life was first made accessible to the public 10 years ago. This new edition retains the quality of the original translation, has been enriched, and includes 20 new illustrations, maps, drawings, and photos.

The World of the Ancient Maya

The World of the Ancient Maya
Author: John S. Henderson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801482847

Theirs was one of the few complex societies to emerge in and to adapt successfully to a tropical-forest environment. Their architecture, sculpture, and painting were sophisticated and compellingly beautiful.

Aztec Philosophy

Aztec Philosophy
Author: James Maffie
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2014-03-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1607322234

In Aztec Philosophy, James Maffie shows the Aztecs advanced a highly sophisticated and internally coherent systematic philosophy worthy of consideration alongside other philosophies from around the world. Bringing together the fields of comparative world philosophy and Mesoamerican studies, Maffie excavates the distinctly philosophical aspects of Aztec thought. Aztec Philosophy focuses on the ways Aztec metaphysics—the Aztecs’ understanding of the nature, structure and constitution of reality—underpinned Aztec thinking about wisdom, ethics, politics,\ and aesthetics, and served as a backdrop for Aztec religious practices as well as everyday activities such as weaving, farming, and warfare. Aztec metaphysicians conceived reality and cosmos as a grand, ongoing process of weaving—theirs was a world in motion. Drawing upon linguistic, ethnohistorical, archaeological, historical, and contemporary ethnographic evidence, Maffie argues that Aztec metaphysics maintained a processive, transformational, and non-hierarchical view of reality, time, and existence along with a pantheistic theology. Aztec Philosophy will be of great interest to Mesoamericanists, philosophers, religionists, folklorists, and Latin Americanists as well as students of indigenous philosophy, religion, and art of the Americas.