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Calculating Brilliance

An Intellectual History of Mayan Astronomy at Chich’en Itza

By: Gerardo Aldana,Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos

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Calculating Brilliance

An Intellectual History of Mayan Astronomy at Chich’en Itza

By: Gerardo Aldana,Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos

This book contextualizes the discovery of a Venus astronomical pattern by a female Mayan astronomer at Chich'en Itza and the discovery's later adaptation and application at Mayapan. Calculating Brilliance brings different intellectual threads together across time and space, from the Classic to the Postclassic, the colonial period to the twenty-first century to offer a new vision for understanding Mayan astronomy.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816542201

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9780816542208

Latin American Politics and Society

By: Gerardo L. Munck,Juan Pablo Luna

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Latin American Politics and Society

By: Gerardo L. Munck,Juan Pablo Luna

Taking a fresh thematic approach to politics and society in Latin America, this introductory textbook analyzes the region's past and present in an accessible and engaging style well-suited to undergraduate students. The book provides historical insights into modern states and critical issues they are facing, with insightful analyses that are supported by empirical data, maps and timelines. Drawing upon cutting-edge research, the text considers critical topics relevant to all countries within the region such as the expansion of democracy and citizenship rights and responses to human rights abuses, corruption, and violence. Each richly illustrated chapter contains a compelling and cohesive narrative, followed by thought-provoking questions and further reading suggestions, making this text a vital resource for anyone encountering the complexities of Latin American politics for the first time in their studies.

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649

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Cambridge University Press

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110886080X

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9781108860802

Persistent Inequality

Contemporary Realities in the Education of Undocumented Latina/o Students

By: Maria Pabon Lopez,Gerardo R. Lopez

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Persistent Inequality

Contemporary Realities in the Education of Undocumented Latina/o Students

By: Maria Pabon Lopez,Gerardo R. Lopez

The children of undocumented migrants in the U.S. are trapped at the intersection of two systems in crisis: the public education system and the immigration law system. Based on a long tradition of scholarship in Latino education and on newer critical race theory ideas, Persistent Inequality answers burning questions about how educational policy has to rise to meet the unique challenges of undocumented students’ lives as well as those which face nearly all Latinos in the U.S. educational system. How solid is the Supreme Court precedent, Plyler v. Doe, that allows undocumented children the opportunity to attend public school K-12 free of charge? What would happen if the Supreme Court overruled it? What is the DREAM Act and how would this proposed federal law affect the lives of undocumented students? How have immigration raids affected public school children and school administrators? To shed some light on these vital questions, the authors provide a critical analysis of the various legal and policy aspects of the U.S. educational system, asserting that both the legal and educational systems in this country need to address the living and working conditions of undocumented Latino students and remove the obstacles to educational achievement which these students struggle with daily.

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Routledge

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1135229686

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9781135229689

Calculating Brilliance

An Intellectual History of Mayan Astronomy at Chich’en Itza

By: Gerardo Aldana

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Calculating Brilliance

An Intellectual History of Mayan Astronomy at Chich’en Itza

By: Gerardo Aldana

To the modern eye, the architects at Chich’en Itza produced some of the most mysterious structures in ancient Mesoamerica. The purpose and cultural influences behind this architecture seem left to conjecture. The people who created and lived around this stunning site may seem even more mercurial. Near the structure known today as the Great Ball Court and within the interior of the Lower Temple of the Jaguar, a mural depicts a female Mayan astronomer called K'uk'ul Ek' Tuyilaj. Weaving together archaeology, mathematics, history, and astronomy, Calculating Brilliance brings to light the discovery by this Mayan astronomer, which is recorded in the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex. As the book demonstrates, this brilliant discovery reverberated throughout Mayan science. But it has remained obscured to modern eyes. Jumping from the vital contributions of K'uk'ul Ek' Tuyilaj, Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos critically reframes science in the pre-Columbian world. He reexamines the historiography of the Dresden Codex and contextualizes the Venus Table relative to other Indigenous literature. From a perspective anchored to Indigenous cosmologies and religions, Aldana y Villalobos delves into how we may understand Indigenous science and discovery—both its parallels and divergences from modern globalized perspectives of science. Calculating Brilliance brings different intellectual threads together across time and space, from the Classic to the Postclassic, the colonial period to the twenty-first century to offer a new vision for understanding Mayan astronomy.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816544212

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The Apotheosis of Janaab' Pakal

Science, History, and Religion at Classic Maya Palenque

By: Gerardo Aldana

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The Apotheosis of Janaab' Pakal

Science, History, and Religion at Classic Maya Palenque

By: Gerardo Aldana

Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- Orthography -- Names -- Calendrics -- Hieroglyphic Script -- Introduction -- 1: New Life at B'aakal -- 2: Recovering Maya Astronomy -- 3: Constructing Portals -- 4: Errors and Identities -- 5: The Public Face of Re-Creation -- 6: Re-Creation Through K'awiilian Astronomy -- 7: Zuyuathan: Secret Knowledge and the Maintenance of Power -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- References -- Index.

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University Press of Colorado

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1607320711

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9781607320715

Tying Headbands Or Venus Appearing

New Translations of K'al, the Dresden Codex Venus Pages and Classic Period Royal 'binding' Rituals

By: Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos

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Tying Headbands Or Venus Appearing

New Translations of K'al, the Dresden Codex Venus Pages and Classic Period Royal 'binding' Rituals

By: Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos

Epigraphers of the Mayan hieroglyphic writing system have demonstrated that a single verb root lies behind a substantial array of royal rituals. At the same time, astronomically oriented studies have found the same root associated with the events of celestial bodies. Perhaps the best known of the latter is the operative verb within the Dresden Codex Venus Pages. This book tackles ostensibly minor incongruities within current interpretations of the Venus Pages to reveal a trajectory that resolves the difference between astronomical and epigraphic treatments of the verb in question. In an attempt to ameliorate these inconsistencies, textual data external to the Dresden Codex, both temporally and geographically, are brought into consideration. The external data reveals an unexpected linguistic and thematic continuity, which further challenges current calendric interpretations of the Venus Pages. Rectifying the calendric inconsistency requires a substantial reinterpretation of the procedure for utilizing the Preface to the Venus Table; in so doing, a new solution to the long enigmatic interval of 9,100 days is proposed. This last move introduces a reconsideration of the Venus Table in its entirety, with a focus on kal, the operative verb throughout the table, such that we gain access to a perspective of ritual time and space that appears to have been held throughout Mesoamerica. This essay appeals to calendrics, iconography, hieroglyphs, and architecture to suggest that kal referred to a ritual enclosing or loop-tracing in space and time.

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British Archaeological Reports

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1407308033

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Calculating Brilliance

Calculating Brilliance

Latin American Politics and Society

Latin American Politics and Society

Persistent Inequality

Persistent Inequality

Calculating Brilliance

Calculating Brilliance

The Apotheosis of Janaab' Pakal

The Apotheosis of Janaab' Pakal

Tying Headbands Or Venus Appearing

Tying Headbands Or Venus Appearing

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