The beast between : deer in Maya art and culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Looper, Matthew George, 1966- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Deer life : the Maya ethnobiology of deer
  • Bones to picks : the classic Maya use and depiction of durable deer remains
  • Big bucks : deer and social status
  • Wearing the horns : deer, sexuality, and fertility in "dying god" scenes
  • Locking horns : deer hunting, warfare, the ballgame, and male rites of passage
  • Hart's devotion : the Siip in classic and postclassic Maya society
  • A sinking hart : the solar symbolism of deer in Maya art
  • Deer departed : cervid spirits of death and disease
  • Epilogue. Out of the woods: deer and borders.