Death and the Classic Maya Kings.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- A Note on Orthography -- Acknowledgments -- COLOR SECTION -- One. Celebrations for the Dead -- Anthropology and Death Rituals -- The Classic Maya Case -- Methodological Concerns -- Kingship and the Ancestors -- Two. Death and the Afterlife in the Lowlands -- Earth -- Maize -- Mortality -- Writing Death -- The Self and the Soul -- Breaths of Life and Death -- WAY -- To the Afterlife -- Celestial Bodies and Maize Gods -- Three. Royal Funerals -- Waiting for Interment -- Gravemakers -- Tombs as Underworld Surfaces -- Tombs as Caves -- Tombs as Houses -- Timing and the Ritual Process -- Embalming and Processing -- Dressing and Bundling the Corpse -- Painting -- Arranging the Body, Arranging the Furniture -- Textiles and Other Layering -- Wooden or Stone Platforms -- Ceramics -- Jades and Celts -- Bloodletting Artifacts -- Shells and Other Marine Artifacts -- Bowl Coverings and Masks -- Multiple Interments -- Faunal Remains -- Mirrors, Pyrite, and Hematite -- Burial Sequences -- Sealing the Tomb -- Four. Death and Landscape -- K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo' -- Lowland Founders and Local Variations -- Cults of Personality -- Bird Jaguar IV -- Gods and Orchards at Palenque -- Souls within Buildings -- Ancestor Shrines -- Five. Entering the Tombs of the Classic Maya Kings -- Patterns of Reentry at Piedras Negras -- Fire in the Motmot Burial -- Fire and History at Tonina -- Family Affairs -- False Reentry -- Painting, Drilling, and Bone Peeling -- The Portable Dead -- Six. The Dead King and the Body Politic -- Royal Funerals: Public or Private? -- Bodies and Monuments -- Corpses, Souls, and Mourners in Transition -- Guide to Appendixes -- Appendix 1. Burial Structures and Contexts -- Appendix 2. Body Preparations and Funerary Activities -- Appendix 3. Grave Goods -- Appendix 1. Burial Structures and Contexts.

Appendix 2. Body Preparations and Funerary Activities -- Appendix 3. Grave Goods -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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