In the Maw of the Earth Monster : Mesoamerican Ritual Cave Use /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Prufer, Keith M. (Keith Malcolm), 1960-, Brady, James Edward, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Mayas > Antiquities.
Mayas > Religion.
Mayas > Rites and ceremonies.
Caves > Religious aspects.
Indians of Mexico > Antiquities.
Indians of Mexico > Religion.
Indians of Mexico > Rites and ceremonies.
Mexico > Antiquities.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : a history of Mesoamerican cave interpretation / James E. Brady and Keith M. Prufer
  • Rites of passage and other ceremonies in caves / Doris Heyden
  • The cave-pyramid complex among the contemporary Nahua of northern Veracruz / Alan R. Sandstrom
  • Constructing mythic space : the significance of a chicomoztoc complex at Acatzingo Viejo / Manuel Aguilar ... [et al.]
  • Pre-Hispanic rain ceremonies in Blade Cave, Sierra Mazateca, Oaxaca, Mexico / Janet Fitzsimmons
  • Sacred caves and rituals from the northern Mixteca of Oaxaca, Mexico : new revelations / Carlos Rincón Mautner
  • Some notes on ritual caves among the ancient and modern Maya / Evon Z. Vogt and David Stuart
  • Shamans, caves, and the roles of ritual specialists in Maya society / Keith M. Prufer
  • Cave stelae and megalithic monuments in western Belize / Jaime J. Awe, Cameron Griffith, and Sherry Gibbs
  • A cognitive approach to artifact distribution in caves of the Maya area / Andrea Stone
  • Cluster concentrations, boundary markers, and ritual pathways : a GIS analysis of artifact cluster patterns at Actun Tunichil, Muknal, Belize / Holley Moyes
  • Ethnographic notes on Maya Q'eqchi' cave rites : implications for archaeological interpretation / Abigail E. Adams and James E. Brady
  • A Lacandon religious ritual in the cave of the god Tsibaná at the holy lake of Mensabok in the rainforest of Chiapas / Jaroslaw Theodore Petryshyn
  • Beneath the Yalahau : emerging patterns of ancient Maya ritual cave use from northern Quintana Roo, Mexico / Dominique Rissolo
  • Caves, karst, and settlement at Mayapán, Yucatán / Clifford T. Brown
  • Concluding comments / Keith M. Prufer and James E. Brady.

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