Taube, Karl A.

Aztec and Maya myths by Karl A Taube ( Book )
23 editions published between 1993 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 1,078 libraries worldwide
"The myths of the Aztec and Maya derive from a shared Mesoamerican cultural tradition. This is very much a living tradition, and many of the motifs and gods mentioned in early sources are still evoked in the lore of contemporary Mexico and Guatemala. Professor Taube discusses the different sources for Aztec and Maya myths. The Aztec empire began less than 200 years before the Spanish conquest, and our knowledge of their mythology derives primarily from native colonial documents and manuscripts commissioned by the Spanish. The Maya mythology is far older, and our knowledge of it comes mainly from native manuscripts of the Classic period, over 600 years before the Spanish conquest. Drawing on these sources as well as nineteenth- and twentieth-century excavations and research, including the interpretation of the codices and the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing, the author discusses, among other things, the Popol Vuh myths of the Maya, the flood myth of Northern Yucatan, and the Aztec creation myth"--Publisher's description.

The gods and symbols of ancient Mexico and the Maya : an illustrated dictionary of Mesoamerican religion by Mary Ellen Miller ( Book )
5 editions published in 1993 in English and held by 967 libraries worldwide
Describes the main gods and symbols of the Olmecs, Zapotecs, Maya, Teotihuacanos, Mixtecs, Toltecs, and Aztecs.

An illustrated dictionary of the gods and symbols of ancient Mexico and the Maya by Mary Ellen Miller ( Book )
6 editions published between 1997 and 2007 in English and held by 406 libraries worldwide

The Albers collection of pre-Columbian art by Karl A Taube ( Book )
2 editions published in 1988 in English and held by 363 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 major gods of ancient Yucatan by Karl A Taube ( Book )
4 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 260 libraries worldwide

The five suns a sacred history of Mexico ( Visual )
4 editions published between 1996 and 2004 in English and held by 185 libraries worldwide
Tells the story of the Aztec religion. Animated with illustrations painted in the style of native Mexican people of the sixteenth century.

Olmec art at Dumbarton Oaks by Karl A Taube ( Book )
6 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 154 libraries worldwide

An illustrated dictionary of the gods and symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya by Mary Ellen Miller ( Book )
2 editions published between 1997 and 2000 in Japanese and English and held by 81 libraries worldwide

Statistik in der Qualitätssicherung : Lehr- und Übungsbuch ; mit 111 Tabellen by Karl Taube ( Book )
1 edition published in 1996 in German and held by 52 libraries worldwide