Time and Reality in the Thought of the Maya by Miguel Len-Po... - 9780806123080

Time and Reality in the Thought of the MayaAuthor(s): Miguel Len-Portilla\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press, United States\nImprint: University of Oklahoma Press\nISBN-13: 9780806123080, 978-0806123080\nSynopsis\nIn this second English-language edition of one of his most notable works, Miguel Len-Portilla explores the Maya Indians' remarkable concepts of time. At the book's first appearance Evon Z. Vogt, Curator of Middle American Ethnology in Harvard University, predicted that it would become \""\""a classic in anthropology,\""\"" a prediction borne out by the continuing critical attention given to it by leading [url] no other people in history, the ancient Maya were obsessed by the study of time. Their sages framed its cycles with tireless exactitude. Yet their preoccupation with time was not limited to calendrics; it was a central trait in their evolving culture.\n\nIn this absorbing work Len-Portilla probes the question, What did time really mean for the anc.