"Volume based on papers presented at the Pre-Columbian studies symposium The Measure and Meaning of Time in the Americas, held at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., on October 5-6, 2012"--Title page verso.
Timely themes : an introduction to the measure and meaning of time in Mesoamerica and the Andes / Anthony F. Aveni
From counting down to counting out : on the relationship between apocalyptic and normal time in the Western passion for precise time measurement / Richard Landes
Part I. Sensing pre-Columbian time
Ecumene time, anecumene time : proposal of a paradigm / Alfredo López Austin
When pre-sunrise beings inhabit a post-sunrise world : time, animate objects, and contemporary Tz'utujil Maya ritual practitioners / Linda A. Brown
"To put in order" : classic Maya concepts of time and space / Markus Eberl
Understanding time, space, and social organization in the Inca Ceque system of Cuzco / Anthony F. Aveni
Space and time in the architecture of Inca royal estates / Stella Nair
Time and the other : the early colonial mythohistorical landscapes of the Huarochiri manuscript / Jalh Dulanto
Part II. Registering pre-Columbian time
Linearity and cyclicity in pre-Columbian Maya time reckoning / Victoria R. Bricker and Harvey M. Bricker
Divine reckoning : the calendrical ground of Mexican dynastic imagery / William L. Barnes
Ages of the world in the Andes / Juan M. Ossio A.
Refounding the house : time, politics, and metallogenesis in a colonial Aymara coat of arms / Tristan Platt
Of calendars and computers : comparing Mesoamerica and Bali / John Monaghan
An overview of "the measure and meaning of time in Mesoamerica and the Andes" / Anthony F. Aveni.
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The measure and meaning of time in Mesoamerica and the Andes. ISBN 9780884024033. Published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
