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1. READING SYMBOLIC AND HISTORICAL REPRESENTATIONS IN EARLY MESOAMERICA 2012

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   Townsend, Camilla

   Latin American Research Review, Vol. 47, Issue 1, pp. 177 - 186.

   For many centuries, the sounds of musical instruments and human voices arose from intricately carved and painted courtyards sprinkled across the Mesoamerican landscape. The audiences there understo... Read more

   For many centuries, the sounds of musical instruments and human voices arose from intricately carved and painted courtyards sprinkled across the Mesoamerican landscape. The audiences there understood themselves to be in the presence of a learning and beauty that we, gazing from our own time and place at the remnants of that world, have been slow to see. In the second half of the twentieth century, scholars working as Mayan epigraphers and translators of sixteenth-century alphabetic texts in Mesoamerican languages at last moved beyond an initial impression that we were confronting the almost mystical self-expression of anointed men who seemed fundamentally weird to us. We suddenly recognized that we were reading royal biographies, records of war, and demands for tribute, the stuff of real peoples lives. It was so empowering to move from murkiness (one might even say from science fiction) to clarity and historical comprehension that we are perhaps to be forgiven if we have remained on that page of heady discovery somewhat too long. Reprinted by permission of the publisher Read less

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