Scarborough Vernon L., Wilcox David R. (eds.) The Mesoamerican Ballgame

Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1991. — xviii + 404 p. — ISBN: 0-8165-1180-2.The precolumbian ballgame, played with rubber balls on a masonry court, spread throughout the Aztec empire and endured for two thousand years. More than a spectator sport, the game became an institution used to resolve conflict within and between groups.
This volume provides complete coverage of the archaeological, sociopolitical, iconographic, and ideological aspects of the game, and offers new information on the distribution of ballcourts, new interpretations of mural art, and newly perceived relations of the game with material in the Popol Vuh.Northern Mesoamerica.
The Politicization of the Mesoamerican Ballgame and Its Implications for the Interpretation of the Distribution of Ballcourts in Central Mexico (Robert S. Santley, Michael J. Berman, and Rani T. Alexander).
Pre-Hispanic Ballcourts from the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico (Stephen A. Kowalewski, Gary M. Feinman, Laura Finsten, and Richard E. Blanton).
And Then They Were Sacrificed: The Ritual Ballgame of Northeastern Mesoamerica Through Time and Space (S. Jeffrey K. Wilkerson).
The Western Mesoamerican Tlachco: A Two-Thousand-Year Perspective (Phil C. Weigand).
The Known Archaeological Ballcourts of Durango and Zacatecas, Mexico (J. Charles Kelley).
The Mesoamerican Ballgame in the American Southwest (David R. Wilcox).
Southern Mesoamerica.
Courting in the Southern Maya Lowlands: A Study in Pre-Hispanic Ballgame Architecture (Vernon L. Scarborough).
Ballcourts of the Northern Maya Lowlands (Edward B. Kurjack, Ruben Maldonado C., and Merle Green Robertson).
“Bois Ton Sang, Beaumanoir": The Political and Conflictual Aspects of the Ballgame in the Northern Chiapas Area (Eric Taladoire and Benoit Colsenet).
The Ballcourts of Southern Chiapas, Mexico (Pierre Agrinier).
The Ballgame in the Southern Pacific Coast Cotzumalhuapa Region and Its Impact on Kaminaljuyu During the Middle Classic (Lee A. Parsons).
The Lords of Light Versus the Lords of Dark: The Postclassic Highland Maya Ballgame (John W. Fox).
Iconography and Symbolism.
Ceramic Figurines and the Mesoamerican Ballgame (Susanna M. Ekholm).
Ballgame Imagery of the Maya Lowlands: History and Iconography (Marvin Cohodas).
The Courts of Creation: Ballcourts, Ballgames, and Portals to the Maya Otherworld (Linda Scheie and David A. Freidel).
Ballgames and Boundaries (Susan D. Gillespie).