Smoke, flames, and the human body in Mesoamerican ritual practice
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Tiesler, Vera
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Scherer, Andrew K. , [HerausgeberIn] |
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Washington, D.C. :
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection,
[2018].
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viii, 471 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 29 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia
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Table of contents Publisher description |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Fire and sacrifice in Mesoamerican myths and rituals / Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos
- Divine fire: transformation in Highland Mexican thought and practice / Markus Eberl
- 'Where the sun came into being': rites of pyrolatry, transition, and transformation in early classic Teotihuacan / Jesper Nielsen and Christophe Helmke
- Blood, fire, death: covenants and crises among the classic Maya / Andrew K. Scherer and Stephen Houston
- The burning and the burnt: the transformative power of fire, smoke, and flames in conquest and Colonial Maya ritual, warfare, and diplomacy / John F. Chuchiak IV
- O tame fire: a Tzeltal viewpoint / Pedro Pitarch
- The fiery dead: igniting human bodies in the Maya Northern Lowlands / Vera Tiesler
- Fire and smoke in Postclassic Maya culture / Gabrielle Vail and William N. Duncan
- Where there's fire there's smoke: Lacandon Maya burning rites and cremation symbolism / Joel W. Palka
- Transforming the body: fire rituals involving the body in ancient Michoacan, Mexico / Gregory Pereira
- Relics, divination, and regeneration: the symbolism of ashes in Mesoamerica / Guilhem Olivier
- Fire, transformation, and bone relics: cremated remains at the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan / Ximena Chavez Balderas
- The new fire and corporal penance: comparative perspectives between the Tlapanecs and the Aztecs / Daniele Dehouve
- Reflections on smoke, flames, and the human body / John W. Verano.
