Anthony Aveni
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Empires of Time
Calendars, Clocks, and Cultures, Revised Edition
University Press of Colorado
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"Aveni . . . explores the interplay of culture and time in this edifying and readable cross-cultural study of timekeeping through the ages."
—The Sciences
Uncommon Sense
Understanding Nature's Truths Across Time and Culture
University Press of Colorado
In Uncommon Sense, Aveni explores the common and conflicting ways that ancient and contemporary societies have searched for the literal truth about the natural world’s mysteries, from dinosaur bones to the Star of Bethlehem. Aveni demonstrates that a society’s approach to making sense of the natural world can serve as a working definition of its culture, so strongly does it resonate with fundamental values and assumptions.
Foundations of New World Cultural Astronomy
A Reader with Commentary
Edited by Anthony Aveni
University Press of Colorado
Cultural astronomy, first called archaeoastronomy, has evolved at ferocious speed since its genesis in the 1960s, with seminal essays and powerful rebuttals published in far-flung, specialized journals. Until now, only the most closely involved scholars could follow the intellectual fireworks. In Foundations of New World Cultural Astronomy, Anthony Aveni, one of cultural astronomy's founders and top scholars, offers a selection of the essays that built the field, from foundational works to contemporary scholarship.
The Madrid Codex
New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript
Edited by Gabrielle Vail and Anthony Aveni
University Press of Colorado
This volume offers new calendrical models and methodologies for reading, dating, and interpreting the general significance of the Madrid Codex. The longest of the surviving Maya codices, this manuscript includes texts and images painted by scribes conversant in Maya hieroglyphic writing, a written means of communication practiced by Maya elites from the second to the fifteenth centuries A.D.
Class Not Dismissed
Reflections on Undergraduate Education and Teaching the Liberal Arts
University Press of Colorado
In Class Not Dismissed, award-winning professor Anthony Aveni tells the personal story of his six decades in college classrooms and some of the 10,000 students who have filled them. Through anecdotes of his own triumphs and tribulations—some amusing, others heartrending—Aveni reveals his teaching story and thoughts on the future of higher education.
- Copyright year: 2014
Heart of Creation
The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele
Edited by Andrea Stone
University of Alabama Press
Of interest to professionals as well as generalists, this collection will stand as a marker of the state of Mayan studies at the turn of the 21st century and as a tribute to the remarkable personality, Linda Schele, who guided a large part of that archaeological research for more than two decades.
- Copyright year: 2002
Apocalyptic Anxiety
Religion, Science, and America's Obsession with the End of the World
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
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