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Maya Political Science: Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)

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Es una hipótesis bien desarrollada pero poco sólida. El libro tiene grandes lagunas, como no mencionar los trabajos en Oxkintok de la Misión Española, cuyos datos son los más fiables actualmente sobre esa importante ciudad del norte. No creo que llegue a popularizarse la idea de los vínculos entre ciudades-estado y períodos temporales más allá del período final de la civilización. Por otro lado, hay interesantes cuestiones bien expuestas y problemas descritos con agudeza.

I've read quite a bit about the ancient Maya, but until I read Professor Rice's book I always had trouble visualizing what the Maya world was really like on a macro-level. What picture did the Classic Maya themselves have of the known world around them -- of friendly and hostile cities, of the thousands of small settlements, of the cycles of peace and conquest, or of how their history might fit into the universe as they imagined it? This book is a "weighing-up of the world" (to use Fernand Braudel's phrase) that has brought that picture into sharp focus.

Certainly not what I expected. It is a good book anyway, but it does not seem to have much to do with Time, Astronomy and the Cosmos.