The Life Within: Classic Maya and the Matter of Permanence by Stephen Houston

The Life Within: Classic Maya and the Matter of Permanence

Stephen Houston

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nonfiction art history informative reflective medium-paced
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For the Classic Maya, who flourished in and around the Yucatan peninsula in the first millennium AD, artistic materials were endowed with an internal life. Far from being inert substances, jade, flint, obsidian, and wood held a vital essence, agen...

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