TY - BOOK AU - Fitzsimmons,James L. TI - Death and the Classic Maya Kings T2 - The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies SN - 9780292793705 AV - F1435 U1 - 393.0972/0902 PY - 2009/// CY - Austin PB - University of Texas Press KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - No detailed description available for "Death and the Classic Maya Kings" UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3443397 ER -