Classic Maya attire as indicators of status, role and function: or you can dress them up but you can't take them anywhere
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1979
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The iconography of over five hundred Classic Maya artifacts of the seventh to tenth centuries A. D. is examined and explained on the basis of the garments worn and activities performed. The general role of special - purpose attire and accoutrements are examined in Mesoamerica from the archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic records dating from about 3500 B. C. to the present. Special attention is focused upon the association of certain fabrics and garments with particular status, roles, and function. These criteria are applied to Classic Maya depictions on ceramics, stone, wood, bone, and shell. The Classic Maya artifacts utilized here are also analyzed independently of other sources. The analyses of the form, context , and function of the personages depicted are based upon the costume and associated paraphernalia portrayed. Seven different themes are discussed: human sacrifice, purification, accession, the ball game, deer hunting, warfare, and confrontation.
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Bibliography: p. 180-217.
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Clarkson, P. B. (1979). Classic Maya attire as indicators of status, role and function: or you can dress them up but you can't take them anywhere (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/21568