" ... collection of papers presented at the 11th Latin American Symposium, San Diego Museum of Man, March 16, 2002"--P. vi. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Preface / Douglas Sharon -- Introduction: Shamanism, mesas, & cosmologies in middle America / Douglas Sharon -- Central and Northern Mexico: Curanderos' altar-mesas in Mexico City / Roberto Campos-Navarro -- Sierra Otomí religious symbolism : mankind responding to the natural world / James W. Dow -- The annual "Royal Ceremony" on Mt. Tlaloc : mountain fertility ritualism in the late pre-Hispanic basin of Mexico / H.B. Nicholson -- Sacred mountains and miniature worlds : altar design among the Nahua of Northern Veracruz, Mexico / Alan R. Sandstrom -- The Wixárika (Huichol) Altar : place of the souls, stairway of the sun / Stacy B. Schaefer -- Southern Mexico and Guatemala: In my hill, in my valley : the importance of place in ancient Maya ritual / James E. Brady -- Manipulating the cosmos : shamanic tables among the highland Maya / Allen J. Christenson -- Altars for ancestors : Maya altars for the days of the dead in Yucatán / Judith Green -- Wind, rain, and stone : ancient and contemporary Maya meteorology / Matthew G. Looper -- Shamanic mesas of Yucatán and their historical roots / Bruce Love -- Shamanism, colonialism, and the mesa in Mesoamerican religious discourse / John Monaghan.
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