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Location Call # Volume Status
 Sherman Library  F1219.3.G3 S66 2001    AVAILABLE  
Title The sport of life and death : the Mesoamerican ballgame / edited by E. Michael Whittington ; with essays by Douglas E. Bradley ... [and others].
OCLC 49029226
ISBN 0500051089
Publisher New York : Thames & Hudson, 2001.
Description 288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
LC Subject heading/s Indians of Mexico -- Sports -- Exhibitions.
Pelota (Indian game) -- Exhibitions.
Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions.
Indians of Central America -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions.
Indians of Central America -- Sports -- Exhibitions.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-281) and index.
Contents Rubber and rubber balls in Mesoamerica / Laura Filloy Nadal -- Gender, power, and fertility in the Olmec ritual ballgame / Douglas E. Bradley -- Unity in duality: the practice and symbols of the Mesoamerican ballgame / Marķa Teresa Uriarte -- Dressed to kill: stone regalia of the Mesoamerican ballgame / John F. Scott -- Performing on the court / Jane Stevenson Day -- The Maya ballgame: rebirth in the court of life and death / Mary Miller -- The ballcourt in Tenochtitlan / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma -- The architectural background of the pre-Hispanic ballgame: an evolutionary perspective / Eric Taladoire -- An ancient tradition continued: modern rubber processing in Mexico / Michael J. Tarkanian and Dorothy Hosler -- The modern ballgames of Sinaloa: a survival of the Aztec ullamaliztli / Ted J.J. Leyenaar -- Everything old is new again: the enduring legacy of the ancient games / E. Michael Whittington -- Catalogue.
General note Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name organized by the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, N.C.
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