Stephen Houston, David Stuart & Karl Taube. The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and experience among the Classic Maya.(Book review)

From: Antiquity | Date: June 1, 2007| Author: Hammond, Norman | Copyright information

STEPHEN HOUSTON, DAVID STUART & KARL TAUBE. The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and experience among the Classic Maya. viii+324 pages, 265 illustrations. Austin (TX): University of Texas Press; 0-292-71294-4 hardback 35 [pounds sterling].

The body is fashionable these days: in Vienna the Kunsthistorisches Museum's summer 2006 Giambologna exhibit was titled Triumph of the Body, while the new Musee du Quai Branly in Paris opened at the same time with Stephane Bretons Qu'est ...

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