Stephen D. Houston

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The Shape of Script

How and Why Writing Systems Change

School for Advanced Research Press

This book builds on earlier projects about the origins and extinctions of script traditions throughout the world in an effort to address the fundamental questions of how and why writing systems change. The contributors--who study ancient scripts from Arabic to Roman, from Bronze Age China to Middle Kingdom Egypt--utilize an approach that views writing less as a technology than as a mode of communication, one that is socially learned and culturally transmitted.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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The Memory of Bones

Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya

University of Texas Press

Three leading experts offer a new, standard-setting interpretation of how the Classic Maya experienced and thought about the human body.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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The Adorned Body

Mapping Ancient Maya Dress

University of Texas Press

The Adorned Body is the first truly comprehensive book on what the ancient Maya wore, a systematic survey of dress and ornaments, from head to toe and everything in between.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Veiled Brightness

A History of Ancient Maya Color

University of Texas Press

The first systematic study of how the ancient Maya peoples perceived and used color.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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