The beast between : deer in Maya art and culture /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies.
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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.