The sowing and the dawning : termination, dedication, and transformation in the archaeological and ethnographic record of Mesoamerica /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mock, Shirley Boteler, 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1998]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Zinacanteco dedication and termination rituals / Evon Z. Vogt
  • Seven ingredients in Mesoamerican ensoulment: dedication and termination in Tenejapa / Brian Stross
  • The Lacandon incense burner renewal ceremony: termination and dedication ritual among the comtemporary Maya / R. Jon McGee
  • Dedication: ritual or production? / John Monaghan
  • Intercessions with the gods: caches and their significance at Altun Ha and Lamanai, Belize / David M. Pendergast
  • Maya dedications of authority / Sandra Noble
  • Smashed pots and shattered dreams: the material evidence for an Early Classic Maya site termination at Cerros, Belize / Debra Selsor Walker
  • The Blue Creek jade cache: Early Classic ritual in northwestern Belize / Thomas H. Guderjan
  • The defaced and the forgotten: decapitation and flaying/mutilation as a termination event at Colha, Belize / Shirley Boteler Mock
  • Bloody bowls and broken pots: the life, death, and rebirth of a Mayan house / James F. Garber ... [et al.]
  • Termination ritual deposits at Yaxuna: detecting the historical in archaeological contexts / David A. Freidel, Charles K. Suhler, and Rafael Cobos Palma
  • Termination programs and prehispanic looting at the Feathered Serpent Pyramid in Teotihuacan, Mexico / Saburo Sugiyama
  • The writing on the wall: political representation and sacred geography at Monte Alban / Marilyn A. Masson and Heather Orr
  • Recreating the cosmos: seventeen Aztec dedication caches / Leonardo López Luján
  • Sacred work: dedication and termination in Mesoamerica / David Freidel.