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Further Reading

A selection of resources for those who would like to explore further.

Americas

  • Cummins, Thomas B. F. “The Indulgent Image: Prints in the New World.” In Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World, edited by Ilona Katzew, 200–23. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011.
  • Katzew, Ilona, ed. Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011.
  • Townsend, Richard F., ed. The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1992.

Caribbean

  • Alegría, Ricardo E. Ball Courts and Ceremonial Plazas in the West Indies. Yale University Publications in Anthropology 79. New Haven: Department of Anthropology, Yale University, 1983.
  • Bry, Theodor de. América 1590–1634. Edited by Gereon Sievernich, translated by Adán Kovacsics. Madrid: Ediciones Siruela, 1992.

Processions

  • Inomata, Takeshi, and Lawrence S. Coben, eds. Archaeology of Performance: Theaters of Power, Community, and Politics. Archaeology in Society Series. Lanham, Md.: AltaMira Press, 2006.
  • Johnson, Philip. “Whence & Whither: The Processional Element in Architecture.” Perspecta 9/10 (1965): 167–78. DOI: 10.2307/1566915.
  • Mills, Barbara J., and William H. Walker, eds. Memory Work: Archaeologies of Material Practices. School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press, 2008.

Andes

  • Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse. The Islands of Titicaca and Koati: Illustrated. New York: Hispanic Society of America, 1910.
  • Bauer, Brian S., and Charles Stanish. Ritual and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes: The Islands of the Sun and the Moon. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001.
  • Bauer, Brian S. The Sacred Landscape of the Inca: The Cusco Ceque System. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998.
  • Betanzos, Juan de. Narrative of the Incas. Edited and translated by Roland Hamilton and Dana Buchanan. 1st edition. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.
  • Betanzos, Juan de. Suma y narración de los Incas. Edited by María del Carmen Martín Rubio. Colección Crónicas y memorias 7. Madrid: Ediciones Polifemo, 2004.
  • Ceruti, María Constanza. Procesiones andinas en alta montaña: Peregrinaje a cerros sagrados del norte de Argentina y del sur del Perú. Salta, Argentina: EUCASA, 2013.
  • Guaman Poma de Ayala, Felipe. El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno. Edited by John V. Murra and Rolena Adorno. 1st edition. Colección América Nuestra; América Antigua 31. Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno, 1980.
  • Guaman Poma de Ayala, Felipe. Nueva corónica y buen gobierno. Edited by Franklin Pease G. Y. 1st edition. Sección de Obras de Historia. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1993.
  • Inwards, Richard. The Temple of the Andes. London: V. Brooks, Day and Son, 1884.
  • Kolata, Alan L. “Mimesis and Monumentalism in Native Andean Cities,” RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 29/30 (April 1996): 223–36.
  • Martínez Compañón y Bujanda, Baltasar Jaime. Trujillo del Perú a fines del siglo XVIII. 9 vols. Madrid: Ediciones Cultura Hispánica, 1978.
  • McEwan, Colin, and Maarten Van de Guchte. “Ancestral Time and Sacred Space in Inca State Ritual.” In The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes, edited by Richard F. Townsend, 359–72. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1992.
  • Meddens, F. M. et al., eds. Inca Sacred Space: Landscape, Site, and Symbol in the Andes. London: Archetype Publications, 2014.
  • Molina, Cristóbal de. Account of the Fables and Rites of the Incas. Edited and translated by Brian S. Bauer, Vania Smith-Oka, and Gabriel E. Cantarutti. 1st edition. William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011.
  • Moore, Jerry D. “The Archaeology of Plazas and the Proxemics of Ritual: Three Andean Traditions.” American Anthropologist, New Series, 98, no. 4 (December 1996): 789–802.
  • Murúa, Martín de. Códice Murúa: Historia y genealogía de los reyes Incas del Perú del padre mercenario Fray Martín de Murúa: Códice Galvin. Thesaurus Americae. Madrid: Testimonio Compañía Editorial, 2004.
  • Reinhard, Johan, and María Constanza Ceruti. Inca Rituals and Sacred Mountains: A Study of the World’s Highest Archaeological Sites. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, University of California, Los Angeles, 2010.
  • Squier, E. George. Peru: Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of the Incas. London: Macmillan, 1877.
  • Zuidema, R. Tom. The Ceque System of Cuzco: The Social Organization of the Capital of the Inca. Translated by Eva M. Hooykaas. International Archives of Ethnography, Bd. 50, suppl. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1964.
  • ———. La civilisation Inca au Cuzco. Essais et Conférences / Collège de France. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1986.

Mesoamerica

  • Ahler, Steven R., ed. Mounds, Modoc, and Mesoamerica: Papers in Honor of Melvin L. Fowler. Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers Series 28. Springfield: Illinois State Museum, 2000.
  • Anders, Ferdinand et al., eds. Códice Borbónico. 1st edition. Códices Mexicanos 3. Madrid: Sociedad Estatal Quinto Centenario; Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt; Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1991.
  • Bonfiglioli, Carlo et al., eds. Las vías del noroeste III: Genealogías, transversalidades y convergencias, 1st edition. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, 2011.
  • Boone, Elizabeth Hill. “Migration Histories as Ritual Performance.” In To Change Place: Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes, edited by David Carrasco, 121–51. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 1991.
  • ———, ed. The Art and Iconography of Late Post-Classic Central Mexico: A Conference at Dumbarton Oaks, October 22nd and 23rd, 1977. Washington, D.C: Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, 1982.
  • Bustillos Carrillo, Antonio. El sacbé de los mayas. Mexico City: Costa-Amic, 1964.
  • Carrasco, David, ed. To Change Place: Aztec Ceremonial Landscapes. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1991.
  • Cordy-Collins, Alana, and Grace Johnson, eds. Proceedings of the 1995 and 1996 Latin American Symposia: “Death, Burial, and the Afterlife” “Landscapes and Mindscapes of the Ancient Maya,” San Diego Museum Papers 34. San Diego, Calif.: San Diego Museum of Man, 1997.
  • Cortés, Hernán. Historia de Nueva España. México: En la imprenta del Superior Gobierno, del Br. D. Joseph Antonio de Hogal en la Calle de Tiburcio, 1770.
  • Fedick, Scott L., and Karl A. Taube, eds. The View from Yalahau: 1993 Archaeological Investigations in Northern Quintana Roo, Mexico. Field Report Series 2. Riverside: Latin American Studies Program, University of California, Riverside, 1995.
  • Fuente, Beatriz de la, ed. Pintura mural prehispánica. 1st edition. Corpus Precolombino: Sección general. Mexico City: CONACULTA; Milan: Jaca Book, 1999.
  • Grove, David C., and Rosemary A. Joyce, eds. Social Patterns in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 9 and 10 October 1993. Washington, D.C: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1999.
  • Holmes, William H. Archaeological Studies Among the Ancient Cities of Mexico. Anthropological Series 1, no. 1. Chicago: Field Columbian Museum, 1895.
  • Humboldt, Alexander von. Vues des cordillères, et monumens des peuples indigènes de l’Amérique. 2 vols. Paris: F. Schoell, 1810.
  • Isendahl, Christian, and Bodil Liljefors Persson, eds. Ecology, Power, and Religion in Maya Landscapes. Acta Mesoamericana 23. Markt Schwaben, Germany: Verlag Anton Saurwein, 2011.
  • Landa, Diego de. Relación de las cosas de Yucatán. 8th edition. Biblioteca Porrúa 13. Mexico City: Editorial Porrúa, 1959.
  • Liendo Stuardo, Rodrigo, and Francisca Zalaquett Rock, eds. Representaciones y espacios públicos en el area maya: Un estudio interdisciplinario. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2011.
  • Looper, Matthew G. To Be Like Gods: Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization. The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.
  • Miller, Mary Ellen, The Spectacle of the Late Maya Court: Reflections on the Murals of Bonampak, The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013.
  • ———. The Murals of Bonampak. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986.
  • Pollock, H. E. D. “The Northern Terminus of the Principal Sacbe at Mayapán, 1954.” In Carnegie Institution of Washington Current Reports, 1952–1957, edited by John M. Weeks, 2:179–86. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2009.
  • ———. “The Southern Terminus of the Principal Sacbe at Mayapán, Group Z-50, 1956.” In Carnegie Institution of Washington Current Reports, 1952–1957, edited by John M. Weeks, 2:481–92. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2009.
  • Proskouriakoff, Tatiana. An Album of Maya Architecture. Fac., Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 558. Mérida: The Maya Foundation, 1958.
  • Rosny, Léon de. Ensayo sobre la interpretación de la escritura hierática de la América Central. Madrid: Imprenta y Fundición de Manuel Tello, 1881.
  • Ruppert, Karl, J. Eric S. Thompson, and Tatiana Proskouriakoff. Bonampak, Chiapas, Mexico. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 602. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1955.
  • Sahagún, Bernardino de. Códice Florentino. Mexico City: Secretaría de Gobernación, 1979.
  • Sahagún, Bernardino de. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España. Grandes libros de la historia de México 1. Mexico City : Fomento Cultural Banamex, 1982.
  • Schele, Linda and David A. Freidel. A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya. New York: Morrow, 1990.
  • Serrato-Combe, Antonio. The Aztec Templo Mayor: A Visualization. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2001.
  • Shaw, Justine M. White Roads of the Yucatán: Changing Social Landscapes of the Yucatec Maya. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2008.
  • Solari, Amara. Maya Ideologies of the Sacred: The Transfiguration of Space in Colonial Yucatan. 1st edition. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013.
  • Stephens, John L. Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan. 2 vols. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1841.
  • Villa Rojas, Alfonso. The Yaxuna-Cobá Causeway. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 436. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1934.
  • Wagner, Logan, Hal Box, and Susan Kline Morehead. Ancient Origins of the Mexican Plaza: From Primordial Sea to Public Space. Roger Fullington Series in Architecture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013.
  • Weeks, John M., ed. Carnegie Institution of Washington Current Reports, 1952–1957. 2 vols. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2009.
  • Códice Nuttall: Manuscrito pictórico mexicano que actualmente se exhibe en el Museo Británico. Mexico City: Libreria Anticuaria G. M. Echaniz, 1963.
  • Codex Borbonicus, Bibliothèque de l’Assemblée Nationale, Paris Y 120): Vollständige Faksimile-Ausg. Des Codex im Originalformat. Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 1974.