The sowing and the dawning : termination, dedication, and transformation in the archaeological and ethnographic record of Mesoamerica /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
[1998]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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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.