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Books > Humanities > Archaeology
Chichen Itza, the legendary capital and trading hub of the late
Maya civilization, continues to fascinate visitors and researchers
with unanswered questions about its people, rulers, rituals, and
politics. Addressing many of these current debates, Landscapes of
the Itza asks when the city's construction was completed, what the
purposes of its famous pyramid and other buildings were, how the
city's influence was felt in smaller neighboring settlements, and
whether the city maintained strict territorial borders. Special
attention is given to the site's visual culture, including its
architecture, ceramics, sculptures, and murals. This volume is a
much-needed update on recent archaeological and art historical work
being done at Chichen Itza, offering new ways of understanding the
site and its role in the Yucatan landscape.
This book offers a plea to take the materiality of media
technologies and the sensorial and tacit dimensions of media use
into account in the writing of the histories of media and
technology. In short, it is a bold attempt to question media
history from the perspective of an experimental media archaeology
approach. It offers a systematic reflection on the value and
function of hands-on experimentation in research and teaching.
Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Theory is the twin volume to
Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice, authored by Tim van
der Heijden and Aleksander Kolkowski.
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