Pre-Columbian Civilizations
05 Jan 2019 21:38
I guess I should specify: in the Americas! The Maya interest me enough to get their own notebook...
Query: did any of these civilizations have something recognizable as philosophy, in the way we see it in the old world? (A question which would be easier to answer if so many of their books had not been burned.)
- Recommended (completely inadequate):
- Inga Clendinnen, Aztecs: An Interpretation
- Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
- Barbara J. Mills, Jeffery J. Clark, Matthew A. Peeples, W. R. Haas, Jr., John M. Roberts, Jr., J. Brett Hill, Deborah L. Huntley, Lewis Borck, Ronald L. Breiger, Aaron Clauset, and M. Steven Shackley, "Transformation of social networks in the late pre-Hispanic US Southwest", PNAS forthcoming (2013)
- George R. Milner, The Moundbuilders: Ancient Peoples of Eastern North America
- Jacques Soustelle, Daily Life of the Aztecs: On the Eve of the Spanish Conquest
- To read:
- Richard E. Blanton, Ancient Mesoamerica: A Comparison of Change in Three Regions
- Richard E. Blanton et al., Ancient Oaxaca
- David Carraso, City of Sacrifice: Violence from the Aztec Empire to the Modern Americas
- Michael D. Coe and Rex Koontz, Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs
- Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate
- Susan Toby Evans and Joanne Pillsbury (eds.), Palaces of the Ancient New World
- Julia Guernsey, Sculpture and Social Dynamics in Preclassic Mesoamerica
- Kenneth G. Hirth, The Aztec Economic World: Merchants and Markets in Ancient Mesoamerica
- John Janusek, Ancient Tiwanaku
- Steven A. LeBlanc, Painted by a Distant Hand: Mimbres Pottery of the American Southwest
- Steven A. LeBlanc and Lucia R. Henderson, Symbols in Clay: Seeking Artists' Identities in Hopi Yellow Ware Bowls
- J. M. G. Le Clezio, The Mexican Dream: Or, The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilization [Sounds more like projecting fantasies onto another culture than anything else, but that can be very entertaining, if not taken seriously.]
- Miguel Leon-Portilla, Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mind
- Joyce Marcus, Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations
- Jill Leslie McKeever-Furst, The Natural History of the Soul in Ancient Mexico
- Timothy R. Pauketat, Ancient Cahokia and the Mississippians
- Zoltan Paulinyi, "The 'Great Goddess' of Teotihuacan: Fiction or Reality?", Ancient Mesoamerica 17 (2006): 1--15
- Stephen Plog, Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest
- Jeffrey Quilter, The Ancient Central Andes
- Charles Stanish, Ancient Titicaca: The Evolution of Complex Society in Southern Peru and Northern Bolivia
- Rebecca Stone-Miller, Art of the Andes: From Chavin to Inca
- Richard Townsend, Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South
- Marí Teresa Uriarte (ed.), Pre-Columbian Architecture in Mesoamerica
