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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Kingship in the Late Preclassic Maya Lowlands: The Instruments and Places of Ritual Power
Beteiligte:
Freidel, David A.;
Schele, Linda
Erschienen:
Wiley, 1988
Erschienen in:
American Anthropologist, 90 (1988) 3, Seite 547-567
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1525/aa.1988.90.3.02a00020
ISSN:
0002-7294;
1548-1433
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Beschreibung:
The Maya of Central America constitute the only truly literate pre‐Columbian civilization. Analysis of ancient Maya hieroglyphic texts and accompanying images dating from the Classic period (A.D. 200–900) documents the presence of a central and pervasive institution of governance: ahaw. The material symbol systems of the Lowland Maya of the protoliterate Late Preclassic period (350 B.C.‐A.D. 100), as evinced in monumental decorated buildings and in portable art, suggest that these Maya innovated ahaw, the institution of kingship. The authority of ahaw rested upon direct descent and spiritual communion with the ancestors of all Maya, the Ancestral Heroes. Along with noble lineage, ahaw claimed charismatic power through the performance of shamanistic ritual. The Late Preclassic antecedents of the shamanistic parameters of ahaw are discussed in light of Classic and Postclassic ritual expressions.