| Topic | Suggested Readings |
| General
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Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World by Lynn V. Foster, (January 2002) Facts on File, Inc.; ISBN: 0816041482 (Falvey) New Theories on the Ancient Maya (University Museum Symposium Series, Vol 3) by Elin C. Danien, Robert J. Sharer (Editor) University of Pennsylvania; ISBN: 0924171138 (Falvey) The True History of Chocolate, by Sophie D. Coe, Michael D. Coe (2000) Thames & Hudson; ISBN: 0500282293 (Falvey) |
| Tikal
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Schele, Linda, The code of kings : the language of seven sacred Maya temples and tombs / Falvey Memorial Library, F1435.3.A6 S34 1998,
Chapter 2.
Simon Martin and Nikolia Grube, Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens, "Tikal" Peter D. Harrison, The Lords of Tikal. Linda Schele and David Freidel, A Forest of Kings, Chapter 4. |
| Calakmul | Simon Martin and Nikolia Grube, Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens, "Calakmul" |
| Caracol | Simon Martin and Nikolia Grube, Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens, "Caracol" |
| Dos Pilas | Simon Martin and Nikolia Grube, Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens, "Dos Pilas" |
| Naranjo | Simon Martin and Nikolia Grube, Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens, "Naranjo" |
| Yaxchilan
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Tate, Carolyn Elaine, Yaxchilan : the design of a Maya ceremonial city,
Falvey Memorial Library, F1435.1.Y3T38 1992
Among the Maya blood, war and kings / [lectures by] Mary Miller; Falvey Memorial Library, Instructional Media Services, VT1977 VHS Simon Martin and Nikolia Grube, Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens, "Yaxchilan" Linda Schele and David Freidel, A Forest of Kings, Chapter 7. |
| Piedras Negras
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Piedras Negras : the drawings of John Montgomery, Falvey Memorial Library, F1465.1.P5 M66 1994
Simon Martin and Nikolia Grube, Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens, "Piedras Negras" |
| Bonampak | Mary Ellen Miller, Maya masterpiece revealed at Bonampak, National
Geographic. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, v. 187, no. 2 (Feb. 1995)
Miller, Mary Ellen., The murals of Bonampak / Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1986. |
| Palenque
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Schele, Linda, The code of kings : the language of seven sacred Maya temples and tombs / Falvey Memorial Library, F1435.3.A6 S34 1998,
Chapter 3.
Simon Martin and Nikolia Grube, Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens, "Palenque" and "Tonina" Linda Schele and David Freidel, A Forest of Kings, Chapter 6. |
| Copan
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Schele, Linda, The code of kings : the language of seven sacred Maya temples and tombs / Falvey Memorial Library, F1435.3.A6 S34 1998,
Chapter 4.
Newsome, Elizabeth A, Trees of paradise and pillars of the world : the serial stela cycle of "18-Rabbit-God K," King of Copan, Falvey Memorial Library, F1435.1.C7 N49 2001 Fash, William Leonard, Scribes, warriors, and kings : the city of Copán and the ancient Maya / Falvey Memorial Library, F1435.C7F37 1991 Simon Martin and Nikolia Grube, Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens, "Copan" and "Quirigua" Linda Schele and David Freidel, A Forest of Kings, Chapter 8. |
| Uxmal
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Schele, Linda, The code of kings : the language of seven sacred Maya temples and
tombs / Falvey Memorial Library, F1435.3.A6 S34 1998,
Chapter 7.
Kowalski, Jeff Karl, The House of the Governor. Volume 1, Text : a Maya palace at Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico, Falvey Memorial Library, F1435.1.U7 K69 1981 Kowalski, Jeff Karl, Mesoamerican Architecture as a Cultural Symbol, New York, Oxford UP, 1999, chapter 12 ; F 1219.3 A6 M48 1999 |
| Chichen Itza
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Schele, Linda, The code of kings : the language of seven sacred Maya temples and tombs / Falvey Memorial Library, F1435.3.A6 S34 1998,
Chapter 6.
Amrhein, Laura Marie, The iconography of the ritual platform benches at Chichen Itza, Falvey Memorial Library, F1435.1.C5 A47 1996 Linda Schele and David Freidel, A Forest of Kings, Chapter 9. Kowalski, Jeff Karl, Mesoamerican Architecture as a Cultural Symbol, New York, Oxford UP, 1999, chapter 13 ; F 1219.3 A6 M48 1999 |
| Ideology, Religion, and Cosmology
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Bassie-Sweet, Karen. At the Edge
of the World: Caves and the Late
Classic Maya World View,
(Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press, 1996). (Falvey)
Freidel, David, and Linda Schele, Joy Parker, Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path, (New York: William Morrow, 1993).
The Shaman's Secret : The Lost Resurrection Teachings of the Ancient Miller, Mary Ellen, The gods and symbols of ancient Mexico and the Maya: an illustrated dictionary of Mesoamerican religion, Falvey Memorial Library, F1435.3.R3M55 1993 |
| Arithmatic, Calendrics, and Astronomy
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The Sky in Mayan Literature by Anthony F. Aveni (Editor) (April 1995) Oxford University Press; ISBN: 0195068440 (Falvey) Malmström, Vincent Herschel, Cycles of the sun, mysteries of the moon : the calendar in Mesoamerican civilization, Falvey Memorial Library, F1219.3.C2 M25 1997 |
| Writing | Michael Coe, Breaking the Maya Code, (Falvey, F1435.3.W75 C64 1992). |
| Gender
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Ardren, Traci (Editor), Ancient Maya Women (Gender and Archaeology),
Altamira Pr; ISBN: 0759100098; (January 1, 2002)
Haviland, William A. "The Rise and Fall of Sexual Inequality: Death and Gender at Tikal, Guatemala."Ancient Mesoamerica 8 (1997): 1 - 12. Hendon, Julia A. "Women’s Work, Women’s Space, and Women’s Status Among the Classic Period Maya Elite of the Copan Valley, Honduras." Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica. Philadelphia; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Hewitt, Erika A. "What's in a Name: Gender, Power, and Classic Maya Women Rulers." Ancient Mesoamerica 10 (1999): 251 - 262.Joyce, Rosemary A. "The Construction of Gender in Classic Maya Monuments." Gender and Archaeology, Edited by Rita P. Wright. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996: 167-191. Joyce, Rosemary A, et al. "Engendering Tomb 7." Current. Anthropology 35:3 284-287. Joyce, Rosemary A. "Gender at the Crossroads of Mesoamerican Knowledge." Latin American Antiquity 10 (4): 433-35. Joyce, Rosemary A., Gender and power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica, Falvey Memorial Library, F1434.2.S63 J69 2000 Joyce, Rosemary A. "Images of Gender and Labor Organizations in Classic Maya Society." Exploring Gender Through Archaeology: Selected Papers from 1991 Boone Conference. Edited by Cheryl Claasen. Prehistory Press, 1992: 63-70. Joyce, Rosemary A. "Women's work: images of production and reproduction in pre-hispanic Southern Central America." Current Anthropology 34:3 (June 1993): 255-274. Joyce, Rosemary A. "Images of Gender and Labor Organizations in Classic Maya Society." Exploring Gender Through Archaeology: Selected Papers from 1991 Boone Conference. Edited by Cheryl Claasen. Prehistory Press, 1992: 63-70.Joyce, Rosemary A. "Women's work: images of production and reproduction in pre-hispanic Southern Central America." Current Anthropology 34:3 (June 1993): 255-274. Joyce, Rosemary A. and Cheryl Claasen. "Women in the Ancient Americas: Archaeologists, Gender, and the making of Prehistory." Women in Prehistory : North America and Mesoamerica. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Knapp, Bettina Liebowitz. "The Popol Vuh: Primordial Mother Participates in the Creation. Confluencia 12:2 (Spring 1997): 31-48. |
| War
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Demarest, Arthur A, et al. "Classic Maya Defensive
Systems and Warfare in the Petexbatun Region: Archaeological Evidence
and Interpretations." Ancient
Mesoamerica 8 (1997): 229 - 253.
Adams, Richard E. W., Río Azul : an ancient Maya city / Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999 Falvey Memorial Library F1435.1.R56 A33 1999 Demarest, Arthur A. "The Violent Saga of a Maya Kingdom." National Geographic Magazine 183:2 (1993): 94 - 111. |
| Maya Society, Politics, and Economics
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Ball, Joseph W and Jennifer T. Taschek.
"Late Classic Lowland Maya Political Organization and Central Place
Analysis: New Insights from the Upper Belize Valley."
Ancient Mesoamerica 2 (1991): 149 - 165.
Chase, Diane and Arlen F. Chase. "More than Kin and King: Centralized Political Organization Among the Late Classic Maya." (Forum on Theory in Anthropology: The Maya State - Centralized or Segmentary?) Current Anthropology 37 (Dec 1996): 803 - 811. Demarest, Arthur, "Closing Comment," (Forum on Theory in Anthropology: The Maya State - Centralized or Segmentary?) Current Anthropology 37 (Dec 1996): 821 - 824. Fox, John W. and Garrett W. Cook, "Segmentary versus Centralized States among the Ancient Maya," (Forum on Theory in Anthropology: The Maya State - Centralized or Segmentary?) Current Anthropology 37 (Dec 1996): 795-801. Hendon, Julia A. "Status and Power in Classic Maya Society: An Archeological Study." American Anthropologist 93 (1991): 894 – 918. Royal Courts of the Ancient Maya Joyce, T.A. "The Pottery Whistle Figurines of Lubaantun." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 63: xv-xxv. Kazuo, Aoyama, Toshiharu Tashiro, and Michael D. Glascock. "A Pre-Columbian Obsidian Source in San Luis, Honduras: Implications for the Relationship between Late Classic Maya Political Boundaries and the Boundaries of Obsidian Exchange Networks." Ancient Mesoamerica 10:2 (1999): 237 - 249McAnany, Patricia Ann, Living with the ancestors : kinship and kingship in ancient Maya society / Falvey Memorial Library F1435.3.K57M33 1995 |
| Maya Society, Politics, and
Economics continued
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| Maya Art and Architecture
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Mary Ellen Miller, Maya Art and
Architecture.
Barbara Braun, Pre-Columbian Art and the Post-Columbian World: Ancient American,
Sources of Modern Art (2000), Harry N Abrams; ISBN: 0810929473 (Falvey)
Justin Kerr rollout photographs of vases, http://kawil.saiph.com:9500/dataSpark/maya Stone, Andrea Joyce, Images from the underworld : Naj Tunich and the tradition of Maya cave painting, Falvey Memorial Library, F1435.1.N35S76 1995 Reents-Budet, Dorie, Painting the Maya universe: royal ceramics of the classic period, Falvey Memorial Library, F1435.3.P8R44 1994 Deal, Michael, Pottery ethnoarchaeology in the Central Maya Highlands, Falvey Memorial Library, F1221.T8 D43 1998 |
| The Spanish Conquest, The
Colonial period
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Ralph Roys, The Book of Chilam
Balam of Chymayel, (Falvey. Call Number: F1435.C53 1967)
Friar Diego de Landa, Yucatan, (Falvey). Inga Clendinne, Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard, (Falvey). Nancy Farriss, Maya Society under Colonial Rule, (Falvey). Matthew Restall - The Maya World 1550 - 1850, (Falvey).
Theaters of Conversion : Religious Architecture and Indian Artisans in |
| Maya Historiography,
Contemporary Maya.
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Brunhouse, R(obert). L., In
Search of the Maya, The First
Archaeologists, (Falvey).
Robert Brunhouse, Frans Blom, (Falvey). John Lloyd Stephens, Incidents of Travel, (Falvey, F1432.S83). Von Hagen, Victor Wolfgang, Search for the Maya: the story of Stephens and Catherwood, Falvey Memorial Library, F1435.S86V62 Landa, Diego de, 1524-1579, Yucatan before and after the conquest, Baltimore, The Maya society, 1937. Falvey Memorial Library F1435.A3 Walter Morris, Living Maya, (Falvey, F1435.M765 1987). Eric Thompson, Rise and Fall of Maya Civilization, (Falvey). Eric Thompson, Maya History and Religion, (Falvey). McClusky, Laura J., "Here, our culture is hard" : stories of domestic violence from a Mayan community in Belize, Falvey Memorial Library, F1434.2.W65 M33 2001 Menchú, Rigoberta. I, Rigoberta Menchú : an Indian woman in Guatemala / London; New York : Verso, 1984. Falvey Memorial Library, F1465.2.Q5M3813 1984 Nelson, Diane M., A finger in the wound : body politics in quincentennial Guatemala / Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999 Falvey Memorial Library F1435.3.E72 N45 1999 Rebellion in Chiapas : an historical reader / New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., 1999 Falvey Memorial Library F1219.1.C45 R43 1999 Zur, Judith N., Violent memories : Mayan war widows in Guatemala, Falvey Memorial Library, F1465.2.Q5 Z87 1998 Vogt, Evon Zartman, Zinacantán: a Maya community in the highlands of Chiapas, Falvey Memorial Library, F1435.V733 1969 |