Life Ritual And Religion Among The Lacandon Maya
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Life Ritual And Religion Among The Lacandon Maya
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Author : R. Jon McGee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Life Ritual And Religion Among The Lacandon Maya written by R. Jon McGee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
Watching Lacandon Maya Lives
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Author : R. Jon McGee
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2023-02-22
Watching Lacandon Maya Lives written by R. Jon McGee and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-22 with Social Science categories.
Although romanticized as the last of the ancient Maya living isolated in the forest, several generations of the Lacandon Maya have had their lives shaped by the international oil economy, tourism, and political unrest. Watching Lacandon Maya Lives is an examination of dramatic cultural changes in a Maya rainforest farming community over the last forty years, including changes to their families, industries, religion, health and healing practices, and gender roles. The book contains several discussions of anthropological theory in accessible, jargon-free language, including how the use of different theoretical perspectives impacts an ethnographer’s fieldwork experience. While relating his own mishaps, experiences of community strife, and conflicts, Jon McGee encourages students to shed the romantic veil through which ethnographies are usually viewed and think more deeply about how events in our own lives influence how we understand the behavior of people around us. New to the Second Edition: Revised Introduction incorporates the author’s recent work with the Lacandon and discussions of anthropological writing, culture theory, and how events in the author’s personal life have changed his approach to anthropological fieldwork. Revised chapter, “Finding an Income in the Lacandon Jungle” focuses on families who have shifted from a subsistence farming economy to earning revenue by renting facilities to tourists, owning small community stores, working as hired labor for archaeologists, or make use of a variety of government rural aid programs created in the last two decades (Chapter 5). New chapter, “Forty Years Among the Lacandon: Some Lessons Learned,” discusses what the author’s 40 years of experience as an ethnographer has taught him about the discipline of anthropology and the concept of culture (Chapter 8)
Life Ritual And Religion Among The Lacandon Maya
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Author : R. Jon McGee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Life Ritual And Religion Among The Lacandon Maya written by R. Jon McGee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
Hach Winik
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Author : Didier Boremanse
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 1998
Hach Winik written by Didier Boremanse and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
Hach Winik may be the last comprehensive study of traditional Lacandon Maya society based on intensive ethnographic fieldwork. In the 1970s and 1980s, Boremanse collected cultural data and textual materials from two groups of Lacandon who still remained relatively isolated. Topics presented here include the history of Lacandon contact with other peoples, settlement patterns, the life cycle, social control, residence and marriage, the kinship system, and the ritual expression of these social domains.
Ruins Caves Gods And Incense Burners
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Author : Didier Boremanse
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Ruins Caves Gods And Incense Burners written by Didier Boremanse and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Incense burners and containers categories.
The Lacandon Maya are a small-scale forest society currently on the brink of extinction. Small groups of Northern Lacandon escaped evangelization by dispersing into the jungle, moving from the Guatemalan Petén to Chiapas in southern Mexico during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Several groups maintained their traditional religion until the late twentieth century. Their cult of incense burners, based on the veneration of Maya ruins and funerary caves and the deities these effigy censers represented, remained free of any Christian influence. Some ceremonies were vestiges of more complex rituals believed to date back to pre-Columbian times. In this volume, Didier Boremanse explores Lacandon beliefs and traditions he observed during the many months of fieldwork he did, spanning four decades. Throughout the book Boremanse makes Lacandon values and worldviews accessible to readers from western cultures. Rituals are described and explained with extracts of the celebrants' prayers that were tape-recorded, transcribed, and translated. Other elements of religious oral tradition are included, including incantations, chants, and the myths and beliefs that sustain the rites. Boremanse also discusses how larger social change influences religious change, both through economic means and outside influences. Most of the myths retold in this book have never been published in English. Photographs show rites that are no longer performed and shrines that no longer exist.
Maya Pilgrimage To Ritual Landscapes
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Author : Joel W. Palka
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 2014-06-15
Maya Pilgrimage To Ritual Landscapes written by Joel W. Palka and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-15 with History categories.
Pilgrimage to ritually significant places is a part of daily life in the Maya world. These journeys involve important social and practical concerns, such as the maintenance of food sources and world order. Frequent pilgrimages to ceremonial hills to pay offerings to spiritual forces for good harvests, for instance, are just as necessary for farming as planting fields. Why has Maya pilgrimage to ritual landscapes prevailed from the distant past and why are journeys to ritual landscapes important in Maya religion? How can archaeologists recognize Maya pilgrimage, and how does it compare to similar behavior at ritual landscapes around the world? The author addresses these questions and others through cross-cultural comparisons, archaeological data, and ethnographic insights.
Lives Of The Gods Divinity In Maya Art
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Author : Joanne Pillsbury
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date : 2022-11-14
Lives Of The Gods Divinity In Maya Art written by Joanne Pillsbury and has been published by Metropolitan Museum of Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-14 with Art categories.
An introduction to the complex stories of Mesoamerican divinity through the carvings, ceramics, and metalwork of the Maya Classic period Lives of the Gods reveals how ancient Maya artists evoked a pantheon as rich and complex as the more familiar Greco-Roman, Hindu-Buddhist, and Egyptian deities. Focusing on the period between A.D. 250 and 900, the authors show how this powerful cosmology informed some of the greatest creative achievements of Maya civilization.
Domestic Ritual In Ancient Mesoamerica
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Author : Patricia Plunket
language : en
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Release Date : 2002-07-30
Domestic Ritual In Ancient Mesoamerica written by Patricia Plunket and has been published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-30 with History categories.
Although the concepts and patterns of ritual varied through time in relation to general sociopolitical transformations and local historical circumstances in ancient Mesoamerica, most archaeologists would agree that certain underlying themes and structures modeled the ritual phenomena of this complex culture area. By focusing on ritual expression at the household level, this volume seeks to compare the manifestations of domestic ritual across time and space in both the cores and peripheries, in the cities and in the villages. The authors explore the ways in which cosmological principles and concepts of the sacred were used in the construction of ritual space and practice, how local landscapes provided templates for the images and paraphernalia recovered from archaeological contexts, how foreign enclaves relied on ritual for social reproduction, and how domestic ritual was related to, and indeed embedded in, institutionalized state religions.
Anthropological Theory An Introductory History
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Author : R. Jon McGee
language : en
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Release Date : 2007-03-12
Anthropological Theory An Introductory History written by R. Jon McGee and has been published by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-12 with Social Science categories.
A comprehensive and accessible survey of the history of theory in anthropology, this anthology of classic and contemporary readings contains in-depth commentary in introductions and notes to help guide students through excerpts of seminal anthropological works. The commentary provides the background information needed to understand each article, its central concepts, and its relationship to the social and historical context in which it was written. Six of the 45 articles are new to this edition.
Death And The Classic Maya Kings
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Author : James L. Fitzsimmons
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Death And The Classic Maya Kings written by James L. Fitzsimmons and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Like their regal counterparts in societies around the globe, ancient Maya rulers departed this world with elaborate burial ceremonies and lavish grave goods, which often included ceramics, red pigments, earflares, stingray spines, jades, pearls, obsidian blades, and mosaics. Archaeological investigation of these burials, as well as the decipherment of inscriptions that record Maya rulers' funerary rites, have opened a fascinating window on how the ancient Maya envisaged the ruler's passage from the world of the living to the realm of the ancestors. Focusing on the Classic Period (AD 250-900), James Fitzsimmons examines and compares textual and archaeological evidence for rites of death and burial in the Maya lowlands, from which he creates models of royal Maya funerary behavior. Exploring ancient Maya attitudes toward death expressed at well-known sites such as Tikal, Guatemala, and Copan, Honduras, as well as less-explored archaeological locations, Fitzsimmons reconstructs royal mortuary rites and expands our understanding of key Maya concepts including the afterlife and ancestor veneration.