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Michael D. Coe & Justin Kerr,The art of the Maya scribe. London: Thames & Hudson, 1997; New York: Abrams, 1998. Pp. 240. Hb $75.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2000

Dorie Reents-Budet
Dorie Reents-Budet
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Center for Materials Research & Education, 2211 Meade Lane, Durham, NC 27707, budet@gte.net
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Abstract

This book caps Michael Coe's distinguished career as a Mayanist scholar. In this book, he joins with Justin Kerr to present the formal, technical, and aesthetic characteristics of the art of writing as practiced by the pre-Columbian Maya of Mesoamerica. The collaboration of a renowned archaeologist with an equally illustrious photographer and dedicated student of Maya art has created a readable, highly informative, and well-illustrated text.

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Language in Society , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , July 2000 , pp. 464 - 467
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© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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