Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-323) and index.
Contents
What Are Mesoamerican Religions? -- The Living Ancestors -- Postclassic and Colonial Mesoamerican World Views and Mayan Communicating Objects -- Close Encounters with Maya and Roman Catholic Crosses -- Pigs for the Sun and a Mayan Communicating Stela -- Communicating Bundles and the Ancestors.
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Summary
Astor-Aguilera argues that the western concept of religion and religious objects is not the framework for understanding Mayan cosmology or practice.