In the maw of the earth monster [[electronic resource] ] : mesoamerican ritual cave use / / edited by James E. Brady and Keith M. Prufer
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| Titolo: |
In the maw of the earth monster [[electronic resource] ] : mesoamerican ritual cave use / / edited by James E. Brady and Keith M. Prufer
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| Pubblicazione: | Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (449 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.897/42 |
| Soggetto topico: | Indians of Mexico - Rites and ceremonies |
| Indians of Mexico - Religion | |
| Indians of Mexico - Antiquities | |
| Caves - Religious aspects | |
| Mayas - Rites and ceremonies | |
| Mayas - Religion | |
| Mayas - Antiquities | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Mexico Antiquities |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
BradyJames Edward <1948->
PruferKeith M <1960-> (Keith Malcolm)
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | In the maw of the earth monster |
| ISBN: | 0-292-79735-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910452014303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies.