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Karen Bassie-Sweet's Book on Mayan Culture
Book Review # 984
Karen Bassie-Sweet's Book on Mayan Culture
An examination of the concerns, the myths, symbols, and rituals of the ancient Maya belief system, as related in Bassie-Sweet's book, "From the Mouth of the Dark Cave: Maya Mythology".
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"She examines the sculpture of the Late Classic Maya in order to produce a telling story of their myths, symbols, and rituals. Sweet focuses on the ritual recreation of the Maya belief system in connection with the use of natural and metaphorical caves and the depiction of these same caves in the symbolic representation found on the architecture of the Late Classic Maya period. She examines both the picture or image symbols and the hieroglyphic or text symbols. Sweet explores the relationship between the text and the image, focusing on the pictographic qualities of the text and how these pictographs relate to the symbols found in the image. In essence, the text is comparable to the written story or event and the image refers to an actual or a metaphorical part of the story or event."More papers on Karen Bassie-Sweet's Book on Mayan Culture:
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Karen Bassie-Sweet's Book on Mayan Culture (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 13, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Book-Review-Karen-Bassie-Sweet's-Book-on-Mayan-Culture/984
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"Karen Bassie-Sweet's Book on Mayan Culture" 15 January 2012. Web. 13 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Book-Review-Karen-Bassie-Sweet's-Book-on-Mayan-Culture/984>
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Apr 07, 2001 I am a graduate student at Prescott College working on a Master of Arts degree in Psychology and Anthropology. I also teach at the local community college. I have special interests in mythology, the Ancient Maya, and Jungian archetypal psychology. I graduated from the University of the State of New York in 1997 with a BA in Psychological Anthropology, minor in Latin American and Southwestern Studies; GPA 4.00. My current GPA is also 4.00
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