Middle Classic Mesoamerica: A.D. 400-700
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Description
Editor: Pasztory, Esther
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Pub Date: 1978
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Book: Fair. Binding tight. No tears, bends or folds. Previous owner’s name in ink on upper corner title page near spine head. There’s a smudge on the recto edge of the front board (covered by dust jacket). Smudging to bottom text block. Dust Jacket: Fair. NOT price clipped (no price indicated). Numerous chips and closed tears along front and rear spine edges. Rear spine edge sun-faded. Now in mylar.
Notes: Conference papers, from a conference on Mesoamerica held in 1973. “Mesoamerica” as a whole, not a collection of different cultures. Also, a comparative study of art and cultural history during the “Middle Classic,” effectively a new chronological classification, dividing the Classical Period into three phases. “The Middle Classic period was a crucial 300-year time span in the history of Mesoamerica. It was a time of both climax and change. It corresponded to an intense period of trade and cultural contact between political groups, which resulted in the rise of several sophisticated and eclectic centers, but also contributed to the temporary or permanent decline of others. It was, in general, in the political, intellectual, scientific and artistic realms, a period of ferment and experimentation, of brilliant achievements, side by side with sudden collapse.” (From the Preface)
