The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya is the first-ever English-language dictionary of Mesoamerican mythology and religion. Nearly 300 entries, from accession to yoke, describe the main gods and symbols of the Olmecs, Zapotecs, Maya, Teotihuacanos, Mixtecs, Toltecs, and Aztecs. Topics range from jaguar and jester gods to reptile eye and rubber, from creation accounts and sacred places to ritual practices such as bloodletting, confession, dance, and pilgrimage. In addition, two introductory essays provide succinct accounts of Mesoamerican history and religion, while a...
The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya is the first-ever English-language dictionary of Mesoamerican mythology and religion. Nea...
All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But is it possible for us, embodied as we are in a particular time and place, to know how people of long ago thought about the body and its experiences? In this groundbreaking book, three leading experts on the Classic Maya (ca. AD 250 to 850) marshal a vast array of evidence from Maya iconography and hieroglyphic writing, as well as archaeological findings, to argue that the Classic Maya developed a coherent approach to the human body that we can recover and understand...
All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But is it possible for us, embodi...
Dieses Buch Statistik in der Qualitatssicherung wendet sich an Leser, die sich mit statistischen Methoden der Qualitatssicherung zur Auswertung und Dokumentation von Qualitatsdaten auseinander- setzen. Aufgrund seines Aufbaus wird der Einblick in die Zusammenhange und Methoden, Qualitatsdaten auszuwerten und zu dokumentieren vermittelt. Es wendet sich daher an: - Auszubildende und Facharbeiter mit qualitatssicherndem Aufgabengebiet - Vorarbeiter- und Meisterausbildung - Studierende an Fachschulen - Studierende an Fachhochschulen - Teilnehmer an beruflichen Weiterbildungsmanahmen - Teilnehmer...
Dieses Buch Statistik in der Qualitatssicherung wendet sich an Leser, die sich mit statistischen Methoden der Qualitatssicherung zur Auswertung und Do...
