Maya Script: A Civilization and Its Writing: The Civilization and Its Writing - Hardcover

Longhena, Maria

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0789206536 ISBN 13: 9780789206534

Verlag: Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S., 2000

Inhaltsangabe

This volume presents about 200 Maya glyphs (symbolic figures). Some are ideograms (pictorial symbols representing things, not words); others are phonetic signs. The glyphs express people, animals, things, and such abstract concepts as death. Each one opens a window onto fragments of everyday life, religious beliefs, or even emotions. The complexity of the Maya calendar, mathematical computations, and astronomy reveals a highly-developed civilization. This book also features two-colour drawings of the glyphs, illustrations from reliefs and Spanish codices, and examples of Maya sculpture and paintings. Concluding the book is a chapter on writing systems of the New World, a list of museums to visit, a bibliography, and an index of glyphs.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0789206536
• ISBN 13: 9780789206534
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 180
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar