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Reshaping the World : Debates on Mesoamerican Cosmologies /
"An exploration of the plurality, complexity, and adaptability of Precolumbian and colonial-era Mesoamerican cosmological models and the ways anthropologists and historians have used colonial and indigenous texts to understand these models. That model comprised nine fixed layers of underworld a...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Louisville :
University Press of Colorado,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : rethinking the Mesoamerican cosmos / Ana Díaz
- Colliding universes : a reconsideration of the structure of the pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cosmos / Jesper Nielsen and Toke Sellner Reunert
- Incorporating Mesoamerican cosmology within a global history of religion : some considerations on the work of Lorenzo Pignoria / Sergio Botta
- Dissecting the sky : discursive translations in Mexican colonial cosmographies / Ana Díaz
- The colonial encounter : transformations of indigenous Yucatec conceptions of k'uh / Gabrielle Vail
- Zapotec travels in time and space : the correlation between the 260-day cycle and a multi-level cosmological model / David Tavárez
- A cosmology of water : the universe according to the Ch'orti' Maya / Kerry Hull
- Distance and power in classic Maya texts / Alexandre Tokovinine
- The sky, the night and the number nine : considerations on the Nahua vision of the universe / Katarzyna Miku'lska
- Creating and destroying the upper part of the cosmos : a new approach to Wixarka cosmology / Johannes Neurath.