Mesoamerican Rituals and the Solar Cycle: New Perspectives on the Veintena " Festivals, Elena Mazzetto, Elodie Dupey Garcia
Автор: Nichols Deborah L., Pool Christopher a. Название: Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology ISBN: 0190230800 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190230807 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 50680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Unique among recent works,The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology brings together in a single volume article-length regional syntheses and topical overviews written by active scholars in the field of Mesoamerican archaeology.
If you're looking for a captivating collection of Inca Myths, then keep reading...
This book includes four captivating manuscripts:
Maya Mythology: Captivating Maya Myths of Gods, Goddesses and Legendary Creatures
Aztec Mythology: Captivating Aztec Myths of Gods, Goddesses, and Legendary Creatures
Inca Mythology: Captivating Inca Myths of Gods, Goddesses, and Legendary Creatures
Central American Mythology: Captivating Myths of Gods, Goddesses, and Legendary Creatures of Ancient Mexico and Central America
In the first part of this book, you'll find the following Maya myths and topics covered
Two Creation Myths
The Downfall of Seven Macaw
The Boyhood Deeds of Hunahpu and Xbalanque
Ballgames in Xibalba
The Deaths and Resurrections of Hunahpu and Xbalanque
The Man Who Became a Buzzard
How the Sun and Moon Became Man and Wife
Rabbit Gets His Drink
And many more
In the second part of this book, you'll find the following Aztec myths and topics covered
The Legend of the Suns
The Deeds of Mixcoatl
The Origin of Maize and the Creation of Pulque
The Fall of Xochiquetzal
The Fate of Souls
Huitzilopochtli and the Founding of Tenochtitlan
Huemac Plays the Ball Game
And many more
In the third part of this book, you'll find the following Inca myths and topics covered
Stories of the Gods
Inca Political Myths
Five Andean Folktales and an Inca Play
And much, much more
In the fourth part of this book, you'll find the following Central American myths and topics covered
Olocupinele Creates the World (Dule/Cuna, Panama)
Watakame' and the Great Flood (Wix ritari/Huichol, Mexico)
Yomomuli and the Talking Tree (Yoeme/Yaqui, Mexico)
How the Sea Was Made (Cab car, Costa Rica)
Mother Scorpion's Country (Miskito, Nicaragua)
The Childhood of the Sun and the Moon (qne-a tnya-e/Chatino, Mexico)
The Invisible Hunters (Miskito, Nicaragua)
The King of the Peccaries (Bribri, Costa Rica)
How Opossum Stole Fire (Mazatec, Mexico)
Uncle Rabbit and Uncle Tiger (Nicaragua)
And much, much more
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Автор: Edited by Michael Love , Julia Guernsey Название: Early Mesoamerican Cities ISBN: 1108838510 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108838511 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 82370.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This volume presents new data, case studies, and models for approaching the subject of early Mesoamerican cities. It demonstrates how the study of urbanism in Mesoamerica, and all ancient civilizations, is entering a new and dynamic phase of scholarship.
Название: Headless relative clauses in mesoamerican languages ISBN: 0197518370 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780197518373 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 86590.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Headless relative clauses have received little attention in the linguistic literature, despite the many morpho-syntactic and semantic puzzles they raise. These clauses have been even more neglected in the study of Mesoamerican languages. Headless Relative Clauses in Mesoamerican Languages constitutes the first in-depth, systematic study of the topic. Spanning fifteen languages from five language families, it is the broadest crosslinguistic study of headless relative clauses yet conducted. For most of these languages there is no previous descriptive or documentary material on wh-constructions in general, let alone headless relative clauses. Many of the languages are threatened or endangered; all are understudied. Each chapter in this volume constitutes an original contribution to typological and theoretical linguistics. The first chapter provides a comprehensive introduction to the varieties of headless relative clauses and their importance to the study of human language, while the other chapters are language-specific and follow a uniform format to facilitate comparisons and generalizations across languages. Through the collective work of a team of twenty-one scholars, Headless Relative Clauses in Mesoamerican Languages presents a clear and systematic introduction to relative and interrogative clauses in Mesoamerican languages.
Автор: History Captivating Название: Maya History: A Captivating Guide to the Maya Civilization, Culture, Mythology, and the Maya Peoples` Impact on Mesoamerican History ISBN: 164748376X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781647483760 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 27580.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In the past decade or two, there has been an upsurge of interest in Maya history. This was partly fueled by the mythical Maya prediction of the end of the world in 2012, which for a short period of time put this civilization under the media spotlight. But there is much more to their culture than the common misconception about their calendar.
The Resurrection Plate, a Late Classic Maya dish, is decorated with an arresting scene. The Maize God, assisted by two other deities, emerges reborn from a turtle shell. At the center of the plate, in the middle of the god’s body and aligned with the point of emergence, there is a curious sight: a small, neatly drilled hole.
Art historian Andrew Finegold explores the meanings attributed to this and other holes in Mesoamerican material culture, arguing that such spaces were broadly understood as conduits of vital forces and material abundance, prerequisites for the emergence of life. Beginning with, and repeatedly returning to, the Resurrection Plate, this study explores the generative potential attributed to a wide variety of cavities and holes in Mesoamerica, ranging from the perforated dishes placed in Classic Maya burials, to caves and architectural voids, to the piercing of human flesh. Holes are also discussed in relation to fire, based on the common means through which both were produced: drilling. Ultimately, by attending to what is not there, Vital Voids offers a fascinating approach to Mesoamerican cosmology and material culture.
This book explores a seminal topic concerning the Mesoamerican past: the religious festivals that took place during the eighteen periods of twenty days, or veintenas, into which the solar year was divided. Pre-Columbian societies celebrated these festivals through complex rituals, involving the priests and gods themselves, embodied in diverse beings and artifacts. Specific sectors of society also participated in the festivals, while city inhabitants usually attended public ceremonies. As a consequence, this ritual cycle played a significant role in Mesoamerican religious life; at the same time, it informs us about social relations in pre-Columbian societies. Both religious and social aspects of the solar cycle festivals are tackled in the twelve contributions in this book, which aims to address the entire veintena sequence and as much of the territory and history of Mesoamerica as possible. Specifically, the book revisits long-standing discussions of the solar cycle festivals, but also explores these religious practices in original ways, in particular through investigating understudied rituals and offering new interpretations of rites that have previously been extensively analyzed. Other chapters consider the entire veintena sequence through the prism of specific topics, providing multiple though often complementary analyses. As a consequence, this book will attract the attention of scholars and graduate students with interests in Mesoamerica and early Latin America, as well as ethnohistory, cultural history, history of religions, art history, archaeology and anthropology.
Автор: Alejandro Estrada; Paul A. Garber; Mary S. M. Pave Название: New Perspectives in the Study of Mesoamerican Primates ISBN: 1489995137 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781489995131 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 232910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The purpose of this volume is to present a comprehensive overview of recent advances in primate field research, ecology, and conservation biology in Mesoamerica. The overall goal of each contribution is to integrate newly collected field data with theoretical perspectives drawn from evolutionary biology, socioecology, biological anthropology, and conservation to identify how our current knowledge of primate behavior and ecology has moved beyond more traditional approaches. A corollary to this, and an important goal of the volume is to identify geographical regions and species for which we continue to lack sufficient information, to develop action plans for future research, and to identify areas for immediate conservation action. Despite many decades of primate research in Mesoamerica, much is still unknown concerning the basic ecology and behavior of these species, demography, current distribution, and conservation status of local populations, and the effectiveness of conservation policies on primate survivorship. Four major areas of research are the focus of the volume: Evolutionary Biology and Biogeography; Population Demography and Ecology; Behavior; and Conservation and Management Policies.
Автор: Rosenswig Название: The Beginnings of Mesoamerican Civilization ISBN: 1107428971 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107428973 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 43290.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The disagreements about Early Formative society that have raged over the past thirty years focus on the nature of inter-regional interaction. Rosenswig evaluates these debates from a fresh theoretical perspective, integrating new data into an assessment of Soconusco society before, during, and after the apogee of the San Lorenzo polity.
Автор: Martha Few Название: For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala ISBN: 0816531870 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816531875 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 30930.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Smallpox, measles, and typhus. The scourges of lethal disease--as threatening in colonial Mesoamerica as in other parts of the world--called for widespread efforts and enlightened attitudes to battle the centuries-old killers of children and adults. Even before edicts from Spain crossed the Atlantic, colonial elites oftentimes embraced medical experimentation and reform in the name of the public good, believing it was their moral responsibility to apply medical innovations to cure and prevent disease. Their efforts included the first inoculations and vaccinations against smallpox, new strategies to protect families and communities from typhus and measles, and medical interventions into pregnancy and childbirth. For All of Humanity examines the first public health campaigns in Guatemala, southern Mexico, and Central America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Martha Few pays close attention to Indigenous Mesoamerican medical cultures, which not only influenced the shape and scope of those regional campaigns but also affected the broader New World medical cultures. The author reconstructs a rich and complex picture of the ways colonial doctors, surgeons, Indigenous healers, midwives, priests, government officials, and ordinary people engaged in efforts to prevent and control epidemic disease. Few's analysis weaves medical history and ethnohistory with social, cultural, and intellectual history. She uses prescriptive texts, medical correspondence, and legal documents to provide rich ethnographic descriptions of Mesoamerican medical cultures, their practitioners, and regional pharmacopeia that came into contact with colonial medicine, at times violently, during public health campaigns.
Автор: Dufendach Rebecca Название: Mesoamerican Experiences of Illness and Healiing ISBN: 1478005203 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478005209 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 12540.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: The sixteenth-century encounter between Mesoamericans and Europeans resulted in a tremendous loss of life in indigenous communities and significantly impacted their health and healing strategies. Contributors to this special issue of Ethnohistory address how indigenous people experienced bodily health in the wake of this encounter. By exploring archival indigenous and Spanish-language documents, contributors address how bodily health was experienced in the wake of the European encounter and uncover transformations of health discourses and experiences of illness. They investigate eclectic healing practices and medical chants; changing notions of the causes of illnesses; and the language of cleansing ceremonies, bone-setting, midwifery, and maternal medicine.
Contributors. Sabina Cruz de la Cruz, Rebecca Dufendach, Servando Hinojosa, Timothy W. Knowlton, Gabrielle Vail, Edber Dzidz Yam
Folio 46r from Codex Telleriano-Remensis was created in the sixteenth century under the supervision of Spanish missionaries in central Mexico. As an artifact of seismic cultural and political shifts, the manuscript painting is a singular document of indigenous response to Spanish conquest. Examining the ways in which the folio's tlacuilo (indigenous painter/writer) creates a pictorial vocabulary, this book embraces the place "outside" history from which this rich document emerged.
Applying contemporary intellectual perspectives, including aspects of gender, modernity, nation, and visual representation itself, José Rabasa reveals new perspectives on colonial order. Folio 46r becomes a metaphor for reading the totality of the codex and for reflecting on the postcolonial theoretical issues now brought to bear on the past. Ambitious and innovative (such as the invention of the concepts of elsewheres and ethnosuicide, and the emphasis on intuition), Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You embraces the performative force of the native scribe while acknowledging the ineffable traits of 46r—traits that remain untenably foreign to the modern excavator/scholar. Posing provocative questions about the unspoken dialogues between evangelizing friars and their spiritual conquests, this book offers a theoretic-political experiment on the possibility of learning from the tlacuilo ways of seeing the world that dislocate the predominance of the West.
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