Mesoamerican Religions and Archaeology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mesoamerican Religions and Archaeology write by Aleksandar Bošković. This book was released on 2017-01-26. Mesoamerican Religions and Archaeology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The main goal of this book is to produce a methodologically sound and ethically valid interdisciplinary introduction into the exciting world of ancient Mesoamerica.
Domestic Ritual in Ancient Mesoamerica
Domestic Ritual in Ancient Mesoamerica - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Domestic Ritual in Ancient Mesoamerica write by Patricia Plunket. This book was released on 2002-07-30. Domestic Ritual in Ancient Mesoamerica available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Ancient Zapotec Religion
Ancient Zapotec Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Zapotec Religion write by Michael Lind. This book was released on 2015-04-15. Ancient Zapotec Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ancient Zapotec Religion is the first comprehensive study of Zapotec religion as it existed in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on the eve of the Spanish Conquest. Author Michael Lind brings a new perspective, focusing not on underlying theological principles but on the material and spatial expressions of religious practice. Using sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish colonial documents and archaeological findings related to the time period leading up to the Spanish Conquest, he presents new information on deities, ancestor worship and sacred bundles, the Zapotec cosmos, the priesthood, religious ceremonies and rituals, the nature of temples, the distinctive features of the sacred and solar calendars, and the religious significance of the murals of Mitla—the most sacred and holy center. He also shows how Zapotec religion served to integrate Zapotec city-state structure throughout the valley of Oaxaca, neighboring mountain regions, and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Ancient Zapotec Religion is the first in-depth and interdisciplinary book on the Zapotecs and their religious practices and will be of great interest to archaeologists, epigraphers, historians, and specialists in Native American, Latin American, and religious studies.
Religion in the Prehispanic Southwest
Religion in the Prehispanic Southwest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion in the Prehispanic Southwest write by Christine S. VanPool. This book was released on 2007-01-19. Religion in the Prehispanic Southwest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Religion mattered to the prehistoric Southwestern people, just as it matters to their descendents today. Examining the role of religion can help to explain architecture, pottery, agriculture, even commerce. But archaeologists have only recently developed the theoretical and methodological tools with which to study this topic. Religion in the Prehispanic Southwest marks the first book-length study of prehistoric religion in the region. Drawing on a rich array of empirical approaches, the contributors show the importance of understanding beliefs and ritual for a range of time periods and southwestern societies. For professional and avocational archaeologists, for religion scholars and students, Religion in the Prehispanic Southwest represents an important contribution.
Pre-Columbian American Religions
Pre-Columbian American Religions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pre-Columbian American Religions write by Walter Krickeberg. This book was released on 1969. Pre-Columbian American Religions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Four readable essays by two archaeologists and two social anthropologists summarize knowledge gained from written sources, archaeological finds, and studies of present-day inhabitants concerning the pre-Columbian religions of Mesoamerica, South Central American and Andean civilizations, North America except for the Arctic, and primitive South America and the West Indies.
