| Title |
In the maw of the earth monster [electronic resource] : mesoamerican ritual cave use / edited by James E. Brady and Keith M. Prufer. |
| Edition |
1st ed. |
| OCLC |
EBC3443011 |
| ISBN |
0292705867 ((cl.) : alk. paper) |
| Publisher |
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005. |
| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 438 p.) : ill., maps. |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Indians of Mexico -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Indians of Mexico -- Religion.
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Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities.
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Caves -- Religious aspects.
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Mayas -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Mayas -- Religion.
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Mayas -- Antiquities.
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Mexico -- Antiquities.
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Other
Genre heading/s |
Electronic books
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : a history of Mesoamerican cave interpretation / James E. Brady and Keith M. Prufer -- Rites of passage and other ceremonies in caves / Doris Heyden -- The cave-pyramid complex among the contemporary Nahua of northern Veracruz / Alan R. Sandstrom -- Constructing mythic space : the significance of a chicomoztoc complex at Acatzingo Viejo / Manuel Aguilar ... [et al.] -- Pre-Hispanic rain ceremonies in Blade Cave, Sierra Mazateca, Oaxaca, Mexico / Janet Fitzsimmons -- Sacred caves and rituals from the northern Mixteca of Oaxaca, Mexico : new revelations / Carlos Rincón Mautner -- Some notes on ritual caves among the ancient and modern Maya / Evon Z. Vogt and David Stuart -- Shamans, caves, and the roles of ritual specialists in Maya society / Keith M. Prufer -- Cave stelae and megalithic monuments in western Belize / Jaime J. Awe, Cameron Griffith, and Sherry Gibbs -- A cognitive approach to artifact distribution in caves of the Maya area / Andrea Stone -- Cluster concentrations, boundary markers, and ritual pathways : a GIS analysis of artifact cluster patterns at Actun Tunichil, Muknal, Belize / Holley Moyes -- Ethnographic notes on Maya Q'eqchi' cave rites : implications for archaeological interpretation / Abigail E. Adams and James E. Brady -- A Lacandon religious ritual in the cave of the god Tsibaná at the holy lake of Mensabok in the rainforest of Chiapas / Jaroslaw Theodore Petryshyn -- Beneath the Yalahau : emerging patterns of ancient Maya ritual cave use from northern Quintana Roo, Mexico / Dominique Rissolo -- Caves, karst, and settlement at Mayapán, Yucatán / Clifford T. Brown -- Concluding comments / Keith M. Prufer and James E. Brady. |
| Reproduction note |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
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