Rituals of Sacrifice - 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 Rituals of Sacrifice write by Vincent James Stanzione. This book was released on 2003. Rituals of Sacrifice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Living and working among the Tz'utujil Maya people of Santiago Atitlán in highland Guatemala for some fifteen years, Vincent Stanzione has observed, photographed, and participated in their ritual and ceremonial life, which he describes with unique authority in this account of the continuities in Mayan culture from pre-Columbian times to the present. "This book represents both a confirmation and an innovation in the scholarship and field work about the religious imagination and rites of passage of Maya peoples. I know of no book that is as able to a) link the pre-Hispanic, colonial and contemporary religious practices of these peoples into a coherent narrative, b) combine anthropological/religious studies theory with linguistics and ongoing field work as creatively and c) illuminate the debate between models of 'syncretism' and 'transculturation' about a contemporary ritual cycle as Stanzione's beautifully illustrated work."--David Carrasco, Harvard University
New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society
New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society - 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 New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society write by Vera Tiesler. This book was released on 2007-02-15. New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines Maya sacrifice and related posthumous body manipulation. The editors bring together an international group of contributors from the area studied: archaeologists as well as anthropologists, forensic anthropologists, art historians and bioarchaeologists. This interdisciplinary approach provides a comprehensive perspective on these sites as well as the material culture and biological evidence found there
The Value of a Human Life
The Value of a Human Life - 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 The Value of a Human Life write by Karel Innemée. This book was released on 2022-04-20. The Value of a Human Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Experts from different disciplines present new insights into the subject of ritual homicide in various regions of the ancient world.
Human Sacrifice
Human Sacrifice - 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 Human Sacrifice write by Jimmy Lee Shreeve. This book was released on 2015-01-20. Human Sacrifice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Welcome to the terrifying world of ritual sacrifice. Around the world, humans are being trafficked, kidnapped, sold, and enslaved for the specific purpose of sacrifice. Mass-scale migration has seen these gruesome techniques exported from the land of the Aztecs and finding their way to the United States, Britain, and many other locations worldwide. Voodoo priests in London have been linked to ritual murders, and not long ago a Palo Mayombe priestess’s New York City apartment yielded its grisly secrets. One New Jersey investigator says that sacrificial rites are not only going on today, but can be traced back ninety years in the States alone. Jimmy Lee Shreeve takes us on a nightmare journey, following the initial investigations of Scotland Yard into the murder of a five-year-old boy whose torso was found floating in the Thames in 2001, and traveling to Africa to unveil a grim trade of exporting humans for sacrifice. He uncovers the dark side of voodoo and muti magic, linked with a score of sacrifices and murders, and in Mexico, finds a devotee of Palo Mayombe responsible for torturing his victims and boiling them in a cauldron. Along the way, Shreeve brings his own brand of offbeat detective skills to the fore, providing startling conclusions to some of the world’s most horrific murders. Brutal and disturbing, Human Sacrifice takes us into the dark world of twenty-first-century ritual murder.
Ritual Sacrifice
Ritual Sacrifice - 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 Ritual Sacrifice write by Brenda Ralph Lewis. This book was released on 2007-01-15. Ritual Sacrifice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The principle of sacrifice is as old as human life itself. This book provides an overview of sacrificial practices around the world since prehistoric times. It also examines the reasons behind these rituals, and in the case of human sacrifice an attempt is made to understand the mentality of the 'victims' who often willingly went to their deaths.
