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Title:Ruins of the Past : The Use & Perception of Abandoned Structures in the Maya Lowlands
Author:Travis W Stanton & Aline Magnoni (eds)
ISBN:0870818880 : 9780870818882
Illustrations:22 b/w photos, 79 line drawings
Format:Hardback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:364
Weight: .66 Kg.
Published:University Press of Colorado - March 2008
List Price: 39.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Social & cultural anthropology: ARCHAEOLOGY: Central America


From the Preclassic to the present, Maya peoples have continuously built, altered, abandoned, and re-used structures, imbuing them with new meanings at each transformation. RUINS OF THE PAST is the first volume to focus on how later Maya peoples perceived, used, and sometimes ritually destroyed ruins of structures built by ancestors.

"All human societies are built on the stones and ashes of those that came before them, and all people construct their ideas of lived-space in relationship to that past... The editors grasp this concept and have brought together a remarkable group to discuss the ways in which architecture is used and re-used over time, and to speculate on how the re-users perceived the monuments of their past." -- Keith Prufer, Wichita State University. "The various authors present rich case studies that demonstrate ancient Maya people deliberately killed certain structures, re-used only select structures, and performed ceremonies of remembering and forgetting... A compelling body of work that will make a significant impact." -- Traci Ardren, University of Miami.