The Maya 8th Ed. is currently (15 August 2011) available online from about $15.85 new, with a "Buyback Price" of $9.10. (+ p/h, at amazon.com & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25). The Amazon Textbook Buyback Store will also buy it back (the current Amazon Buyback price is $9.10. Which means the Amazon Price After Buyback would be $5.90--a real bargain, even with p/h added).
Mexico 6th Ed. is currently (15 August 2011) available online from about $12.85 new / $9.73 used (+ p/h, at amazon.com & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25). The Amazon Textbook Buyback Store will also buy it back (the current Amazon Buyback price is $2.90. Which means the Amazon Price After Buyback would be $6.83--a real bargain, even with p/h added).
Welcome / Welcome Back to UMD and to Ancient Cultures of Middle America. This will be a great course, and a great experience. You will see. . . .
I am looking forward to meeting you in person on the 6th. . . . In the meantime, you might want to have a look at the Ancient Cultures of Middle America syllabus, which you can find on the web at . . .
The Maya (8th ed.) Michael D. Coe (NY: Thames and Hudson, 2011) ISBN-10: 0500289026
ISBN-13: 978-0500289020
The Maya 8th Ed. is currently available online from about $17.61 new / $14.99 used, with a "Buyback Price" of $9.10. (+ p/h, at amazon.com & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25). The Amazon Book Trade-In Program will buy it back (the current Amazon Buyback price is $7.09. Which means the Amazon Price After Buyback would be $7.09--a real bargain, even with p/h added). (24 August 2011)
Mexico(6th ed.) Michael D. Coe and Rex Koontz (NY: Thames and Hudson 2008)
ISBN-10: 0500287554
ISBN-13: 978-0500287552
Mexico 6th Ed. is currently available online from about $13.96 new / $9.25 used, with a "Buyback Price" of $9.10. (+ p/h, at amazon.com & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25). The Amazon Book Trade-In Program will buy it back (the current Amazon Buyback price is $6.50. Which means the Amazon Price After Buyback would be $2.75--a real bargain, even with p/h added). (24 August 2011)
One of the four main characteristics of American Anthropology is fieldwork, "a primary research technique, involving “participant observation," which usually means living among the people one is interested in learning from and about. It would be wonderful if for anthropology classes we could just rent a bus or charter a plane and fly off for a year or more to learn first-hand from the people themselves. Money, time, and practicality prohibit that, so the next best things--when it comes to studying anthropology--is going to places and viewing subjects by film. More information on Visual Anthropology is available on-line at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1604/visual_anthropology.html#title>. Be sure to have a look at that. Detailed information on these sorts of activities will be provided as we go along, but you can have a preview look in your Moodle home anytime you like.
With all of these materials you will be expected to share your ideas and comments with others in the Class Forum and wikis. I'm looking forward to that. My office hours (and regular schedule information) can be found at your Moodle "Home" and on-line on the regular UMD WebSite at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pcoffice.html#title>.
Finally, laptops are welcome in the classroom. Many find a laptop quite useful in following the lectures as all lectures are web supported.
So once again, welcome to Ancient Middle America. This will be a great course, and a great experience. You will see. . . .
P.S. If you are new to the world of "technology" don't worry too much about that. Things may not "work" for you at first, but hang in there and we'll help you along.
(NY: Thames and
Hudson, 2011) ISBN-10: 0500289026
ISBN-13: 978-0500289020
The Maya 8th Ed. is currently available online from about $17.61 new / $14.99 used, with a "Buyback Price" of $9.10. (+ p/h, at amazon.com & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25). The Amazon Book Trade-In Program will buy it back (the current Amazon Buyback price is $7.09. Which means the Amazon Price After Buyback would be $7.09--a real bargain, even with p/h added). (24 August 2011)
"A clear and intelligent description of the development and
organization of Maya civilization." -- Natural History
"The Maya has long been established as the best, most readable introduction
to the New World's greatest ancient civilization. In these pages
Professor Coe distills a life-time's scholarship for the general
reader and student."
"Since the publication of the sixth edition of The Maya,
new sites have been uncovered and further excavations in old sites
have proceeded
at an unprecedented pace. Among the many new discoveries is the chance
find of extraordinary murals dating to ca. AD 100 at San Bartolo
in the Petén. New epigraphic, archaeological, and osteological
research has thrown light on the identity of the "founding fathers" of
such great sites as Tikal and Copan, and their close affiliation
with Teotihuacan in central Mexico. The previously little known center
of Ek' Balam in northeastern Yucatan has turned out to be a regional
kingdom of major importance, with extraordinary stucco reliefs and
a plethora of painted inscriptions."
"It has now become apparent that the birth of Maya civilization
lies not in the Classic but during the Preclassic period, above
all in
the Mirador Basin of Northern Guatemala, where the builders of gigantic
ancient cities (interconnected by causeways) erected by the world's
largest pyramid as early as 200 BC. All of these finds suggest that
we must rethink what we mean by 'Classic.'"
"The seventh edition also presents new evidence for the use of wetlands
by the Classic Maya, and fresh perspectives on the close of the ninth
century."
"Michael D. Coe is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Yale University.
His many other books include Mexico, The True History of Chocolate,
Breaking the Maya Code, Reading the Maya Glyphs, and Angkor and the
Khmer Civilization."
"As a general introduction, this seems all that is
needed."
—Latin America in Books
"The rise, development, and fall of this amazing culture is
explained factually and succinctly." — Library Journal
(NY: Thames and
Hudson, 2008) ISBN-10: 0500287554
ISBN-13: 978-0500287552
Mexico 6th Ed. is currently available online from about $13.96 new / $9.25 used, with a "Buyback Price" of $9.10. (+ p/h, at amazon.com & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25). The Amazon Book Trade-In Program will buy it back (the current Amazon Buyback price is $6.50. Which means the Amazon Price After Buyback would be $2.75--a real bargain, even with p/h added). (24 August 2011)
"Fascinating reading . . . an accessible, informed and extremely
well illustrated introductory book." -- Popular Archaeology
"Michael D. Coe's Mexico
has long been recognized as the most readable and authoritative introduction
to the region's ancient civilizations. This companion to his best-selling The Maya has now been completely revised and expanded for the
fifth edition by Professor Coe and Rex Koontz."
"The sixth edition includes new developments in the birth of agriculture and writing, both of which were independently invented here. Fresh insights into the metropolis of Teotihuacán reveal a world of palaces and warrior cults brought down by social revolts. A spectacular new find in the center of the Aztec capital, just unearthed, gives us a privileged glimpse into the funerary rites of the most powerful monarch in North America at the time."
"Michael D. Coe is Professor
Emeritus of anthropology at Yale University. His many books include The Maya, Breaking the Maya Code, Reading the
Maya Glyphs, and, with his late wife, Sophie D. Coe, The True
History of Chocolate (all published by Thames & Hudson). Rex Koontz
teaches art history at the University of Houston. He is senior editor
of Landscape and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica and the author
of articles on Ancient Mexican art, architecture, and aesthetics."
"Compendious . . . the
first history that puts the subject in its full geographical and climatic
context. . . . Coe has done admirably." -- The Times Literary Supplement
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