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Title:
Mesoamerican ritual economy : archaeological and ethnological perspectives / edited by E. Christian Wells and Karla L. Davis-Salazar.
Publisher:
University Press of Colorado,
Copyright Date:
2007
Description:
xiv, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Indians of Mexico--Rites and ceremonies.
Indians of Central America--Rites and ceremonies.
Indians of Mexico--Religion.
Indians of Central America--Religion.
Indians of Mexico--Wars.
Indians of Central America--Wars.
Human sacrifice--Mexico.
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Mexico.
Mexico--Social life and customs.
Central America--Social life and customs.
Other Authors:
Wells, E. Christian. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2005003095
Davis-Salazar, Karla L. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2005003096
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Mesoamerican ritual economy : materialization as ritual and economic process / E. Christian Wells and Karla L. Davis-Salazar -- Faenas, ferias, and fiestas : ritual finance in ancient and modern Honduras / E. Christian Wells -- Ritual, crafting, and agency at the classic Maya kingdom of Cancuen / Brigitte Kovacevich -- Addicted to rituals of contested meanings in colonial Mexico / Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría -- Ritual pilgrimage and material transfers in prehispanic northwest Mexico / E. Christian Wells and Ben A. Nelson -- Ritual, politics, and pottery economies in the classic Maya southern lowlands / Antonia E. Foias -- Ritual consumption and the origins of social inequality in early formative Copán, Honduras / Karla L. Davis-Salazar -- Polity produced and community consumed : negotiating political centralization through ritual in the lower Río Verde Valley, Oaxaca / Sarah B. Barber and Arthur A. Joyce -- Material dimensions of Aztec religion and ritual / Frances F. Berdan -- The roles of the ballgames in Mesoamerican ritual economy / Barbara W. Fash and William L. Fash -- Ritual and political economies / Katherine A. Spielmann -- Ritual economy and the negotiation of autarky and interdependence in a ritual mode of production / John M. Watanabe.
Series:
Mesoamerican worlds
ISBN:
0870818716
9780870818714
OCLC:
(OCoLC)77573185
LCCN:
2006103512
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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