Contributor
Vail, Gabrielle.
Imprint:Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks, c2010.
Descriptionxi, 431 p., 4 p. of plates : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Note:A collection of papers based on a symposium sponsored by Dumbarton Oaks at the Library of Congress, October 6-7, 2006.
Note:Interaction between central and eastern Mesoamerica during the Culhua Mexican expansion / Fernando Robles Castellanos ; translated by Christine Hernandez -- Evidence for Maya-Mexican interaction in the archaeological record of Mayapan / Marilyn A. Masson and Carlos Peraza Lope -- Cosmology and cultural landscape : the late postclassic Maya of North Yucatan / Anthony F. Aveni -- At dawn's edge : Tulum, Santa Rita, and floral symbolism in the international style of late postclassic Mesoamerica / Karl Taube -- Scribal interaction in postclassic Mesoamerica / Martha J. Macri -- Linguistic evidence for historical contacts between Nahuas and northern lowland Mayan speakers / Karen Dakin -- Nahua vocables in a Maya song of the fall of Chichen Itza : music and social memory in the construction of Yucatecan ethnicities / Timothy K. Knowlton -- Solar-based cartographic traditions of the Mexican and the Yucatec Maya / Meredith Paxton -- A comparison of Venus instruments in the Borgia and Madrid codices / Victoria R. Bricker -- A case for scribal interaction : evidence from the Borgia and Madrid group codices / Christine Hernandez and Gabrielle Vail -- Travelers in the night : a discussion of the archaeological visibility of trade enclaves, ethnicity, and ideology / Anthony P. Andrews -- Highland Mexican and Maya intellectual exchange in the late postclassic : some thoughts on the origin of shared elements and methods of interaction / Alfonso Lacadena.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
