The Maya and Teotihuacan: Reinterpreting Early Classic Interaction

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Editor: Braswell, Geoffrey E.

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Pub Date: 2003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Without dust jacket.  Gilt on spine sharp, easily readable.  Some smudging to bottom text block.  Appears unused.

Notes: “The recognition that the emergence of states in the Maya lowlands cannot be attributed to central Mexican influence in no way minimizes the importance of interaction with Teotihuacan.  Models that  proposed Teotihuacan as the Mesoamerican Urstaat clearly are wrong.  But the two cultures interacted, and evidence for that interaction is abundant….There is no doubt that Teotihuacan impacted the consciousness of Late Classic Maya elites in ways that melded ‘the formidable power and memory of that foreign city with their own political symbolism and ideology’ (Stuart 2000a: 466).  These Late Classic elites, then, were conscious actors who selectively adopted foreign imagery and ideas.” (From Chapter 1, page 7)