Houston, Stephen D.

Maya glyphs by Stephen D Houston ( Book )
9 editions published between 1989 and 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 646 libraries worldwide

The classic Maya by Stephen D Houston ( Book )
8 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 546 libraries worldwide

The memory of bones : body, being, and experience among the classic Maya by Stephen D Houston ( Book )
8 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 309 libraries worldwide
All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But is it possible for us, embodied as we are in a particular time and place, to know how people of long ago thought about the body and its experiences? In this groundbreaking book, three leading experts on the Classic Maya (ca. AD 250 to 850) marshal a vast array of evidence from Maya iconography and hieroglyphic writing, as well as archaeological findings, to argue that the Classic Maya developed a coherent approach to the human body that we can recover and understand today. The authors open with a cartography of the Maya body, its parts and their meanings, as depicted in imagery and texts. They go on to explore such issues as how the body was replicated in portraiture; how it experienced the world through ingestion, the senses, and the emotions; how the body experienced war and sacrifice and the pain and sexuality that were intimately bound up in these domains; how words, often heaven-sent, could be embodied; and how bodies could be blurred through spirit possession. From these investigations, the authors convincingly demonstrate that the Maya conceptualized the body in varying roles, as a metaphor of time, as a gendered, sexualized being, in distinct stages of life, as an instrument of honor and dishonor, as a vehicle for communication and consumption, as an exemplification of beauty and ugliness, and as a dancer and song-maker. Their findings open a new avenue for empathetically understanding the ancient Maya as living human beings who experienced the world as we do, through the body.

The first writing : script invention as history and process ( Book )
13 editions published between 2004 and 2008 in English and held by 305 libraries worldwide

Veiled brightness : a history of ancient Maya color ( Book )
2 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 305 libraries worldwide

Fiery pool : the Maya and the mythic sea ( Book )
1 edition published in 2010 in English and held by 304 libraries worldwide

Royal courts of the ancient Maya ( Book )
7 editions published between 2000 and 2001 in English and held by 280 libraries worldwide

The decipherment of ancient Maya writing ( Book )
5 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 275 libraries worldwide

Hieroglyphs and history at Dos Pilas : dynastic politics of the Classic Maya by Stephen D Houston ( Book )
4 editions published in 1993 in English and held by 267 libraries worldwide

Classic Maya place names by David Stuart ( Book )
3 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 204 libraries worldwide