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Fitzsimmons, James Louis.

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Death and the Maya: Language and archaeology in Classic Maya mortuary ceremonialism.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Death and the Maya: Language and archaeology in Classic Maya mortuary ceremonialism./
Author:	Fitzsimmons, James Louis.
Description:	629 p.
Notes:	Chair: David Stuart.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-04A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Archaeology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3051160
ISBN:	0493656677

Death and the Maya: Language and archaeology in Classic Maya mortuary ceremonialism.
Fitzsimmons, James Louis.

Death and the Maya: Language and archaeology in Classic Maya mortuary ceremonialism. - 629 p.

Chair: David Stuart.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2002.

Since the path-breaking work of Tatiana Proskouriakoff (1960), the hieroglyphs produced by the Classic Maya (250–850 AD) civilization have been recognized as a source of historical information, detailing the dynastic succession, political history, and royal ritual life within their city-states of Lowland Mesoamerica. Recent developments in epigraphic decipherment have enabled us to partially reconstruct the lives and activities of the Classic Maya rulers and their vassals. One of the most intriguing aspects of this decipherment has been the awareness that the Maya provided detailed accounts of royal ceremony. The present dissertation uses these developments to approach a widely described, yet poorly understood, aspect of royal ritual life: the rites performed for the Classic Maya dead. In addition to reviewing the art and iconography of death, this study seeks to establish ties between what is archaeologically observed—the ‘death’ in material culture as represented by burials, funerary architecture, and grave furniture—and what was recorded by the Classic Maya scribes.

ISBN: 0493656677Subjects--Topical Terms:

622985
Anthropology, Archaeology.

Death and the Maya: Language and archaeology in Classic Maya mortuary ceremonialism.
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520 $a Since the path-breaking work of Tatiana Proskouriakoff (1960), the hieroglyphs produced by the Classic Maya (250–850 AD) civilization have been recognized as a source of historical information, detailing the dynastic succession, political history, and royal ritual life within their city-states of Lowland Mesoamerica. Recent developments in epigraphic decipherment have enabled us to partially reconstruct the lives and activities of the Classic Maya rulers and their vassals. One of the most intriguing aspects of this decipherment has been the awareness that the Maya provided detailed accounts of royal ceremony. The present dissertation uses these developments to approach a widely described, yet poorly understood, aspect of royal ritual life: the rites performed for the Classic Maya dead. In addition to reviewing the art and iconography of death, this study seeks to establish ties between what is archaeologically observed—the ‘death’ in material culture as represented by burials, funerary architecture, and grave furniture—and what was recorded by the Classic Maya scribes.
520 $a The force of this analysis, combined with ethnographic and ethnohistoric examples, affords greater understanding of Pre-Columbian attitudes towards death and allows for the reconstruction of specific mortuary rites. This dissertation examines the process by which rulers were transformed into venerated ancestors, analyzes the ideas behind divine kingship, and explores the ways in which royal death was a challenge to the perpetuity and authority of the social order. Using models of the ceremonies performed by and for the ruling elite, moreover, this dissertation compares the framework of Classic Maya death rites with those of other societies and facilitates future comparisons between royal funerary behavior and mortuary activities in the non-royal sphere.
520 $a The Classic Maya solution to the problem of royal death involved institutionalized transfers of power where rulers or subordinates claimed legitimacy via ancestral authority. Death was a process rather than an event where the fate of the corpse, as first postulated by Hertz (1909), often mirrored the fate of the soul. Classic Maya royal burials were complex events which involved a transformation of the dead from their old political and social identities to new—often deified—aspects.
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