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Karl Taube

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#917

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#1242

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#465

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Karl Taube's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Riverside
Masters Anthropology University of California, Riverside
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Riverside

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According to Wikipedia, Karl Andreas Taube is an American Mesoamericanist, Mayanist, iconographer and ethnohistorian, known for his publications and research into the pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica and the American Southwest. He is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, University of California, Riverside. In 2008 he was named the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences distinguished lecturer.

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Karl Taube's Published Works

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Published Works

The Major Gods of Ancient Yucatan (1992) (199)
An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya (1993) (160)
An Archaeology of the Senses: Perception and Cultural Expression in Ancient Mesoamerica (2000) (159)
Flower Mountain: Concepts of Life, Beauty, and Paradise among the Classic Maya (2004) (91)
The Olmec Maize God: The Face of Corn in Formative Mesoamerica (1996) (90)
Mesoamerican Pantheon. (Book Reviews: The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya. An Illustrated Dictionary of Mesoamerican Religion.) (1995) (81)
The Temple of Quetzalcoatl and the Cult of Sacred War at Teotihuacan (1992) (73)
THE SYMBOLISM OF JADE IN CLASSIC MAYA RELIGION (2005) (73)
The Maize Tamale in Classic Maya Diet, Epigraphy, and Art (1989) (73)
Folk Classification of Classic Maya Pottery (1989) (59)
Oldest Writing in the New World (2006) (52)
A Prehispanic Maya Katun Wheel (1988) (44)
Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks (2004) (40)
AMERICAN GLADIATORS:: RITUAL BOXING IN ANCIENT MESOAMERICA (2009) (37)
Aztec and Maya Myths (1993) (36)
The Teotihuacan Cave of Origin: The Iconography and Architecture of Emergence Mythology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest (1986) (35)
The ancient Yucatec new year festival : the liminal period in Maya ritual and cosmology (1988) (33)
Ancient and contemporary Maya conceptions about field and forest. (2003) (32)
The Classic Maya Maize God : A Reappraisal (2012) (31)
The Domestication and Distribution of Theobroma cacao L. in the Neotropics (2009) (20)
The Memory Of Bones (2006) (20)
Maws of heaven and hell: the symbolism of the centipede and serpent in classic Maya religion (2003) (18)
Obsidian Polyhedral Cores and Prismatic Blades in the Writing and Art of Ancient Mexico (1991) (18)
The Bilimek Pulque Vessel (1993) (13)
The Beautiful, the Bad, and the Ugly (2009) (13)
Glyph Y of the Maya supplementary series . An appearance of Xiuhtecuhtli in the Dresden Venus pages (1991) (10)
The Albers Collection of Pre-Columbian Art (1988) (10)
Creation and Cosmology (2012) (7)
The Ballgame, Boxing and Ritual Blood Sport in Ancient Mesoamerica (2017) (5)
Through a Glass, Brightly: Recent Investigations Concerning Mirrors and Scrying in Ancient and Contemporary Mesoamerica (2016) (4)
THE NOMINAL YAXHA’(AL) CHAK ON CLASSIC MAYA CERAMICS AND A POSSIBLE CEPHALOMORPHIC VARIANT FOR YAX (2004) (2)
The Role of Radiocarbon Dating in Maya Archaeology: Four Decades of Research (1992) (2)
Blowgunners and the Great Bird at Teotihuacan: Mesoamerican Myths in a Comparative Perspective (2021) (1)
44 NEW INSIGHTS ON THE ACROPOLIS OF KAMINALJUYU , GUATEMALA (2009) (0)
The Olmec "Double-Merlon" Motif and the Origins of Color Directional Symbolism in Formative Mesoamerica (2019) (0)
A Ritual Clown of the Early Classic Maya Court (1991) (0)
Imagining the Maya: Sources and Scholarship@@@Precolumbian Population History in the Maya Lowlands@@@Cuello: An Early Maya Community in Belize@@@Scribes, Warriors, and Kings: The City of Copan and the Ancient Maya@@@Aztec and Maya Myths@@@Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1648-1812@@@The Bird Who Cleans (1995) (0)
MICHAEL D. COE (1929–2019): A LIFE IN THE PAST (2021) (0)
Dennis Tedlock (translator and interpreter), Rabinal Achi: A Mayan drama of war and sacrifice (2007) (0)
The Aberdeen Celt: an early twentieth-century Olmec find (2019) (0)
The Birth of Ehecatl: The Cultural Origins of the Avian Wind God OF Central Mexico (2015) (0)
Mythes aztèques et mayas; Aztec and Maya Myths (1995) (0)
In Search of Paradise: Religion and Cultural Exchange in Early Postclassic Mesoamerica (2020) (0)
At the Reed of Life: (0)
Folk Classification of Classic (1989) (0)

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