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Author Astor-Aguilera, Miguel Angel, 1961- author.

Title The Maya world of communicating objects : quadripartite crosses, trees, and stones / Miguel Angel Astor-Aguilera.

Publication Info. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2010]
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 330 pages) : illustrations, map
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Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography 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.
Note Print version record.
Summary Astor-Aguilera argues that the western concept of religion and religious objects is not the framework for understanding Mayan cosmology or practice.
Subject Maya cosmology.
Mayas -- Rites and ceremonies.
Maya architecture.
Inscriptions, Mayan.
Ceremonial objects.
Symbolism in art.
Symbolism in architecture.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- Central America.
Ceremonial objects. (OCoLC)fst00851409
Inscriptions, Mayan. (OCoLC)fst00973919
Maya architecture. (OCoLC)fst01012695
Maya cosmology. (OCoLC)fst01012709
Mayas -- Rites and ceremonies. (OCoLC)fst01012828
Symbolism in architecture. (OCoLC)fst01140770
Symbolism in art. (OCoLC)fst01140771
Genre/Form Electronic book.
Other Form: Print version: Astor-Aguilera, Miguel Angel, 1961- Maya world of communicating objects. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2010 (DLC) 2010033755
ISBN 9780826347657 (electronic bk.)
0826347657 (electronic bk.)
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