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House of the Waterlily

A Novel of the Ancient Maya World

Kelli Carmean

262 pages, 1 map

ISBN  978-1-78533-548-8 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Published (September 2017)

ISBN  978-1-78533-549-5 $24.95/£19.95 / Pb / Published (September 2017)

eISBN 978-1-78533-550-1 eBook

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781785335488


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“House of the Waterlily is an excellent introduction into the world of the Classic Period Maya in large part because Carmean is a fine storyteller who weaves her narrative as beautifully as a ‘fine-spun’ huipil. This book would be an excellent addition to the course reading list for undergraduate students who are studying the ancient Maya.” · Scott Simmons, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

“Although fiction, House of the Waterlily is a powerful platform from which to begin a discussion of vast catastrophic events in the context of daily life in the late Classic period of this fascinating pre-Columbian civilization.” · Rob Swigart, author, Xibalba Gate: A Novel of the Classic Maya

Description

Set in the Maya civilization’s Late Classic Period House of the Waterlily is a historical novel centered on Lady Winik, a young Maya royal. Through tribulations that mirror the political calamities of the Late Classic world, Winik’s personal story immerses the reader not only in her daily life, but also in the difficult decisions Maya men and women must have faced as they tried to navigate a rapidly changing world. Kelli Carmean’s novel brings to life a people and an era remote from our own, yet recognizably human all the same.

Kelli Carmean holds a doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh and teaches at Eastern Kentucky University. She wrote her dissertation on the household architecture in the residential area of Sayil, a major Maya site in the Yucatan Peninsula. Her first work of archaeological fiction was Creekside: An Archaeological Novel, which alternates between the present and life on the early Kentucky frontier.

Subject: ArchaeologyLiterary StudiesMemory StudiesAnthropology (General)
Area: Latin America and the Caribbean


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