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Mesoamerican ritual economy : archaeological and ethnological perspectives
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- Creator
- edited by E. Christian Wells and Karla L. Davis-Salazar
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2007]
- ©2007
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780870818714, 0870818716
- OCLC
- ocm77573185
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- 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.