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Sémiologie du temple maya: Contribution à l'archéologie des centres cérémoniels des Basses Terres méso-américaines (200/900 ap. J.-C.)

AUTHOR Letouz, Alinor; Letouze, Alienor
PUBLISHER British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd (04/26/2017)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)

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Cette recherche de doctorat est le fruit d'une analyse innovante de l'architecture m so-am ricaine, et plus pr cis ment de la planification urbaine et du temple mayas. Elle touche aux domaines de l'arch ologie, de l'anthropologie, de la symbolique et de la s miologie. L'auteur montre, gr ce une documentation extensive, que l'architecture maya r pond un mod le d'ordre s mantique, o chaque construction anthropique est r alis e selon une codification particuli re respectant la forme du glyphe, cr ant ainsi un espace urbain scriptural, et par cons quent, hautement symbolique. Cette tude m ne non seulement une nouvelle interpr tation de la fonction du temple et la cr ation d'un mod le de caract risation des difices non pyramidaux comme temples, mais galement, par l'acquisition d'une perspective anthropologique interne, une relecture des concepts-cl s de la cosmologie m so-am ricaine.

This book, based on the author's PhD research, is the result of an innovative analysis of Mesoamerican architecture, and especially of the temple and the urban planning concept of Maya ceremonial centres. The study draws on the fields of archaeology, anthropology, symbolic and semiology. The author shows, thanks to an extensive corpus, that Maya architecture responds to a semantic code. In fact, each human construction is built according to a particular glyph-shaped arrangement, creating in this way a 'writing urban space', and is, therefore, highly symbolic. This analysis leads not only to a new model for characterising as temples buildings which are not pyramidal, but also, through the acquisition of an internal perspective, to a reinterpretation of some of the key concepts of Mesoamerican cosmology.

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ISBN-13: 9781407315744
ISBN-10: 1407315749
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: French
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Page Count: 612
Carton Quantity: 5
Product Dimensions: 8.27 x 1.66 x 11.69 inches
Weight: 4.30 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Bibliography, Maps, Illustrated
Country of Origin: US
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Social Science | Archaeology
Social Science | Latin America - Mexico
Dewey Decimal: 972.016
Library of Congress Control Number: 2017381283
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Cette recherche de doctorat est le fruit d'une analyse innovante de l'architecture m so-am ricaine, et plus pr cis ment de la planification urbaine et du temple mayas. Elle touche aux domaines de l'arch ologie, de l'anthropologie, de la symbolique et de la s miologie. L'auteur montre, gr ce une documentation extensive, que l'architecture maya r pond un mod le d'ordre s mantique, o chaque construction anthropique est r alis e selon une codification particuli re respectant la forme du glyphe, cr ant ainsi un espace urbain scriptural, et par cons quent, hautement symbolique. Cette tude m ne non seulement une nouvelle interpr tation de la fonction du temple et la cr ation d'un mod le de caract risation des difices non pyramidaux comme temples, mais galement, par l'acquisition d'une perspective anthropologique interne, une relecture des concepts-cl s de la cosmologie m so-am ricaine.

This book, based on the author's PhD research, is the result of an innovative analysis of Mesoamerican architecture, and especially of the temple and the urban planning concept of Maya ceremonial centres. The study draws on the fields of archaeology, anthropology, symbolic and semiology. The author shows, thanks to an extensive corpus, that Maya architecture responds to a semantic code. In fact, each human construction is built according to a particular glyph-shaped arrangement, creating in this way a 'writing urban space', and is, therefore, highly symbolic. This analysis leads not only to a new model for characterising as temples buildings which are not pyramidal, but also, through the acquisition of an internal perspective, to a reinterpretation of some of the key concepts of Mesoamerican cosmology.

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