Plazas, performers, and spectators: Political theaters of the Classic Maya

Current Anthropology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 805-842

  Inomata, Takeshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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