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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781622603321

Autore

Astor-Aguilera Miguel Angel <1961->

Titolo

The Maya world of communicating objects [[electronic resource] ] : quadripartite crosses, trees, and stones / / Miguel Angel Astor-Aguilera

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2010

ISBN

1-283-63703-0

0-8263-4765-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Disciplina

972.81

Soggetti

Maya cosmology

Mayas - Rites and ceremonies

Maya architecture

Inscriptions, Mayan

Ceremonial objects

Symbolism in art

Symbolism in architecture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-323) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: What Are Mesoamerican Religions?; Chapter 2: The Living Ancestors; Chapter 3: Postclassic and Colonial Mesoamerican World Views and Mayan Communicating Objects; Chapter 4: Close Encounters with Maya and Roman Catholic Crosses; Chapter 5: Pigs for the Sun and a Mayan Communicating Stela; Chapter 6: Communicating Bundles and the Ancestors; Chapter 7: End Discussion; Notes; Glossary; References Cited; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Astor-Aguilera argues that the western concept of religion and religious objects is not the framework for understanding Mayan cosmology or practice.