TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aveni,Anthony F.
TI  - The measure and meaning of time in Mesoamerica and the Andes : proceedings of symposium
T2  - Dumbarton Oaks pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia
SN  - 9780884024033
AV  - F1434.2.S63 M43 2015
U1  - 304.2/37 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
KW  - Time
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Central America
KW  - History
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Andes Region
KW  - Indians of Central America
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Mayas
KW  - Indians of South America
KW  - Indian chronology
KW  - Maya chronology
KW  - Indian calendar
KW  - Maya calendar
N1  - "Volume based on papers presented at the Pre-Columbian studies symposium The Measure and Meaning of Time in the Americas, held at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., on October 5-6, 2012"--Title page verso
N2  - This volume brings together specialists in anthropology, archaeology, art history, astronomy, and the history of science to contemplate concrete and abstract temporal concepts gleaned from the Central Mexicans, Mayans, and Andeans. Contributors first address how people reckon and register time; they compare the western linear, progressive way of knowing time with the largely cyclic notions of temporality derived from the Americas, and they dissect, explain, and explore the origins of the complex dynastic and ritual calendars of the Maya, Inca, and Aztecs. They subsequently consider how people sense time and its moral dimensions. Time becomes an inescapable feature of the process of perception, an entity that occupies a succession of moments rather than the knife-edge present ingrained in our Western minds
ER  -