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基本説明
Focusing on the Classic Period (AD 250-900), James Fitzsimmons examines and compares textual and archaeological evidence for rites of death and burial in the Maya lowlands, from which he creates models of royal Maya funerary behavior.
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Like their regal counterparts in societies around the globe, ancient Maya rulers departed this world with elaborate burial ceremonies and lavish grave goods, which often included ceramics, red pigments, earflares, stingray spines, jades, pearls, obsidian blades, and mosaics. Archaeological investigation of these burials, as well as the decipherment of inscriptions that record Maya rulers' funerary rites, have opened a fascinating window on how the ancient Maya envisaged the ruler's passage from the world of the living to the realm of the ancestors.
Focusing on the Classic Period (AD 250-900), James Fitzsimmons examines and compares textual and archaeological evidence for rites of death and burial in the Maya lowlands, from which he creates models of royal Maya funerary behavior. Exploring ancient Maya attitudes toward death expressed at well-known sites such as Tikal, Guatemala, and Copan, Honduras, as well as less-explored archaeological locations, Fitzsimmons reconstructs royal mortuary rites and expands our understanding of key Maya concepts including the afterlife and ancestor veneration.
Contents
A Note on Orthography
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Celebrations for the Dead
Anthropology and Death Rituals
The Classic Maya Case
Methodological Concerns
Kingship and the Ancestors
Chapter 2: 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
Chapter 3: 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
Sealing the Tomb
Chapter 4: 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
Chapter 5: 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
Chapter 6: 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
Notes
References
Index
