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Title: Understanding Maya Inscriptions: A Hieroglyph Handbook by John F. Harris, Stephen K. Stearns ISBN: 0-924171-41-3 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: January, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Strictly for glyphies
Comment: This is a heavy duty text rather than an introduction. If you are just a dumb tourist like myself visiting Copan (there are hardly any inscriptions in Chichen Itza or Northern Yucatan -usually the places with the good inscriptions are hard or dangerous to get to - even Copan right now)and you want to understand the numbers and dates you might be better off with something simpler. In fact, for numbers and dates, old Sylvanus Griswold Morley is quite good (but don't let hard-core glyphies hear you say that). You can buy lots of gizmos with diagrams of the calendar round. I could not understand the Harris and Stearns chapter on astronomy.
This stuff keeps getting updated - the University of Pennsylvania issues supplements.
Rating: 5
Summary: Superb Introduction to Mayan Hieroglyphs
Comment: Mayan epigraphy is still an exciting and rapidly changing field with new discoveries being made. This book opened the door of this field to me. The book presents the basic knowledge of Mayan calendrics, vocabulary and grammar clearly with ample examples from inscriptions. The technique of structural analysis used by most Mayan epigraphers is also well described. Included are several examples of structural analysis applied to texts. Interesting chapters also cover the origins of the writing system and Mayan astronomy/astrology as revealed by the texts. If you want to get started with Mayan epigraphy, I heartily recommend this book. The extensive bibliography will then help you know where to go next for further study of Mayan epigraphy.
One word of caution. The book is arranged in chapters for specific topics not in graded lessons as is usual for an introductory language text.
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Title: Reading the Maya Glyphs by Michael D. Coe, Mark Van Stone ISBN: 0500051100 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: How to Read Maya Hieroglyphs by John Montgomery ISBN: 0781808618 Publisher: Hippocrene Books Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs by John Montgomery ISBN: 0781808626 Publisher: Hippocrene Books Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Art of the Maya Scribe by Michael Coe ISBN: 0810919885 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: The CODE OF KINGS: The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs by Linda Schele, Justin Kerr ISBN: 0684852098 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 06 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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