Classic Mayan

Law, Danny; Stuart, David

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“…From approximately the third century BCE, the Maya wrote extensively on stone, ceramic, shell and architecture, guaranteeing the preservation of the verbal genres specific to those media. Since the 1990s, advances in the linguistic decipherment of Maya script (Houston 2000;Law & Stuart 2017;Wichmann 2004) have allowed us to examine Classic Maya poetics, genre and prosody (Hull 2003;Hull & Carrasco 2012;Josserand 1988;1997;2007) to discern broader aesthetic priorities that, as Nicholas Hopkins (1995, 5) has observed, open 'the door to the literary analysis of Classic Maya texts'. In this paper, I attend to these issues, specifically poetics, by identifying the repetition of lines, verses and stanzas that frame sections of texts and sometimes images.…”

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Toward a Poetics of Maya Art and Writing

Carrasco

2024

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This article identifies large-scale chiastic and bracketing structures in contemporary, colonial and Classic Maya verbal art and literature. These structures are composed of the repetition of lines, verses and stanzas that frame sections of texts and sometimes images. Initially, the argument focuses on an ethnopoetic analysis that directs attention to such forms in modern and colonial narrative and presents an extended contemporary Yucatecan story to illustrate key forms. Second, it turns to similar structures in Classic Mayan narrative written in Maya hieroglyphs to examine the way rhetorical and linguistic tropes intertwined with corresponding features in visual compositions to craft highly sophisticated artistic programmes. By tracking how specific structures are deployed and in what contexts, this article defines an aesthetic that not only sheds light on verbal narratives, but also elucidates visual programmes and their interrelationship with text to reveal a fundamental principle in Maya world conceptualization. This literary and visual analysis develops a cross-medial Maya aesthetics comparable to other global poetic traditions.

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Toward a Poetics of Maya Art and Writing

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2024

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“…2 For a complete decipherment history of Maya script see Coe 1992. 3 Coe 1992: 84, 2012Johnson 2013: 9. 4 Coe 1992: 92-97, 2012Houston 2001: 29-34;Johnson 2013: 9; Hoston and Martin 2016: 451;Law and Stuart 2017: 128. 5 Law and Stuart 2017: 128.…”

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“…8 Archaeology continues to yield new inscriptions. Among these new discoveries, the most prominent ones are the excavation of an 8 th -century hieroglyphic 1 Coe 1992: 137-143, 2012Johnson 2013: 10;Hoston and Martin 2016: 445-446;Law and Stuart 2017: 29. 2 Coe 1992: 163-166, 2012Houston 2001: 312-357;Hoston and Martin 2016: 445;Law and Stuart 2017: 129. 3 Coe 1992: 97; Houston 2001: 33.…”

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“…There are extensive academic works on Maya writing. For more details about the history of decipherment of Maya writing in the 19 th and 20 th centuries see discussions inCoe 1992Coe , 2012 for the recent important advances in Maya studies see discussions in Houston and Martin 2016; a detailed overview of language in the Classic Maya script can be found inLaw and Stuart 2017; for a detailed analysis of Mayan portable texts in the Late Preclassic period see Mora-Marín 2001.2 Coe and VanStone 2005: 11; Palka 2010: 225; Stone and Zender 2011: 8; Grube 2012: 845; Houston and Martin 2016: 443; Law and Stuart 2017: 128;Prager et al 2018: 65. 3 Law (2015 argues that corpus of Maya hieroglyphic texts includes ca.…”

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A Comparative Study of the Origins of Chinese and Mesoamerican Writing

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181 4.2 Zapotec 4.3 Epi-Olmec 204 4.4 Maya 4.5 Discussion 5. Comparison of the origins of early Chinese and Mesoamerican writing 5.1 Writing as an invention 5.2 The nature of early Chinese and Mesoamerican writings 5.3 What was the original purpose or function of writing? 5.4 Re-discussion of stimulus diffusion Conclusion Key to the inscriptions translated Appendixes 1. Chinese dynasties and their chronology 2. Mesoamerican cultural periods Bibliography List of Figures iii List of Figures 1.1-1The reading order of H 14043 front 1.1-2The reading order of H 11506 1.1-3The reading order of H 37986 1.1-4The reading order of H 36975 1.1-5The reading order of the front of H 14002 1.1-6The two forms of the TRIPOD graph on H 11499 front 1.1-7The text of the Yī guǐ 伊簋Photo and illustration of Copan Stucco frieze with ruler's name 1. 2-3Decimal hierarchy of knots (khipus) 1.2-4The alleged "pictographic writing" depicting a climbing goat and plunging overturned horse 2.2-1The SKY and LIGHTNING_BOLT compound hieroglyph on the jar from Tomb U-546, Abydos 2.2-2Seal impressions of Naqada IIc-d 2.2-3The hieroglyph N 24 with a scorpion and N 39 with a falcon in Tomb U-j, Abydos 2.2-4The scorpion sign on labels 141 and 145, Abydos 2.2-5The scorpion sign on clay vessels, Abydos 2.2-6The sign D 32 with a god's name on stone vessels from the 0 th dynasty 2.2-7Incised labels with snake and mountain from Tomb U-j, Abydos 2.2-8Labels with elephant standing on a mountain from Tomb U-j, Abydos 2.2-9The Bull Palette 2.3-1The Hétú 河圖 and Luòshū 洛書 2.3-2Engraved symbols, Hángxiàn 杭縣 2.3-3Graphs on black pottery, Hángxiàn 杭縣 2.3-4The Kānghóu guǐ 康侯簋 and its text 2.4-1The "Landa alphabet" 2.5-1An early Egyptian combination of a logogram and an alphabetic sign 2.5-2The place name on the Bull Palette 2.5-3Polychrome ceramic vessel K5453 3.1-1Engraved turtle shells of Jiǎhú 賈湖 3.1-2The 賈湖 Jiǎhú graphs on bone, stone and pottery vessels 3.1-3Pictographic graphs depicting animals, Shuāngdūn 雙墩 3.1-4Geometric graphs, Shuāngdūn 雙墩 3.1-5Engraved graph of Shuāngdūn 雙墩 (93 zhēngjípǐn 征集品: 3) 3.1-6Black pottery fragment, Lóngqiúzhuāng 龙虯莊 3.2-1Engraved graphs of the Bànpō 半坡 3.2-2Engraved graphs of Jiāngzhài 姜寨 3.2-3Engraved graphs of Mǎqiáo 馬橋 3.2-4Engraved graphs of Hóumǎ Niúcūn 侯馬牛村 3.2-5Engraved graphs of ownership of Pǔmǐzú 普米族 3.2-6Pottery vessel (hú 壺) with graphs, Táosì 陶寺 3.2-7Rubbings of H 33243 and H 33242 3.2-8Pottery fragment WT195H473:3, Wángchénggǎng 王城崗 3.2-9Engraved graphs of Língyánghé 陵陽河 3.2-10Engraved graphs of Dàzhūjiācūn 大朱家村 3.2-11Engraved graphs of Yùchísì 尉遲寺 3.2-12Painted pottery of the Yǎngsháo 仰韶 Culture 3.2-13The painted pottery fragment at Quánhùcūn 泉護村 3.2-14Pottery fragment H1235:2, Dīnggōng 丁公 3.2-15Graphs engraved on the black pot, Nánhú 南湖 3.2-16Graphs on the engraved pot, Wúchéng 吳城 3.3-1Engraved black pot, Chénghú 澄湖 3.3-2The OCTAGONAL_STAR graphs of late Neolithic cultures 3.3-3The jade vessel (yuè 鉞) of the Liángzhǔ 良渚 Culture 3.3-4The engraved pottery vessel hé 盉, Chénghú 澄湖 3.3-5Engraved graphs on jade vessels of...

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Contact and Mayan Languages

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