Word and Image in Maya Culture Explorations in Language, Writing, and Representation

Hardcover. 4to. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, UT. 1989. 385 pgs. Illustrated. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (spine label present to the spine). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This volume brings together studies of the linguistic and compositional principles of written discourse, iconography, and symbolic representation, linking these to cosmology and the institutional context of Maya kingship. Architectural, artistic, and glyphic archeological data are brought to bear on the character of Maya civilization. Handsomely produced, with many glyphic and iconographic figures. E-095; 10.9 X 8.4 X 1.3 inches; 385 pages