“This volume brings together the best recent work on Mesoamerican space and leavens it with some of the most sophisticated, productive theories of spatial analysis from across the humanities and social sciences.”—Rex Koontz, author of Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents: The Public Sculpture of El Tajín
“In this brilliantly edited and focused book, space becomes a lens to create an integrated view of the Maya. Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity looks at space from the scale of object to landscape, from god to temple through a holistic approach that combines archaeology, art history, anthropology, and epigraphy. With particular emphasis on how space was and continues to be sacralized, experienced, and used by the Maya, the book is full of new ideas and rethinking of older ones. The authors bring a wide range of theoretical approaches to the study of space. So one learns a lot about not just how the Maya used space but also about how we can study it.”—George J. Bey III, Chisholm Foundation Chair in Arts and Sciences, Millsaps College