Maya worldviews at conquest / edited by Leslie G. Cecil & Timothy W. Pugh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cecil, Leslie G.

Pugh, Timothy W.

Series:

Mesoamerican worlds.

Mesoamerican worlds

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maya philosophy.

Mayas--Religion.

Mayas.

Mayas--Antiquities.

Mayas--Rites and ceremonies.

Mayas--First contact with other peoples.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (447 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Maya Worldviews at Conquest examines Maya culture and social life just prior to contact and the effect the subsequent Spanish conquest, as well as contact with other Mesoamerican cultures, had on the Maya worldview. Focusing on the Postclassic and Colonial periods, Maya Worldviews at Conquest provides a regional investigation of archaeological and epigraphic evidence of Maya ideology, landscape, historical consciousness, ritual practices, and religious symbolism before and during the Spanish conquest. Through careful investigation, the volume focuses on the impact of conversion, hybridization, resistance, and revitalization on the Mayans’ understanding of their world and their place in it. The volume also addresses the issue of anthropologists unconsciously projecting their modern worldviews on the culture under investigation. Thus, the book critically defines and strengthens the use of worldviews in the scholarly literature regardless of the culture studied, making it of value not only to Maya scholars but also to those interested in the anthropologist’s projection of worldview on other cultures in general.

Contents:

Close encounters / Elizabeth Graham

"In recalling things past, I strengthen my heart" : accommodating the past in early colonial Yucatan / William M. Ringle

Time, history, and worldview / Prudence M. Rice

Cosmology and creating in late postclassic Maya literature and art / Gabrielle Vail

Colonial cave art in the northern Maya lowlands : the dark side of the Maya worldview after the conquest / Andrea Stone

De descriptio idolorum : an ethnohistorical examination of the production, imagery, and functions of colonial Yucatec Maya idols and effigy censers, 1540-1700 / John F. Chuchiak

Mesoamerican communicating objects : Mayan worldviews before, during, and after Spanish contact / Miguel Astor-Aguilera

Clash of the worldviews in late Mayapan / Susan Milbrath and Carlos Peraza Lope

Religious resistance and persistence on Cozumel Island / Shankari Patel

Changes in Maya religious worldview : liminality and the archaeological record / Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase

Kowoj worldview : a view from Tipu / Leslie G. Cecil

Agency ad worldviews of the unconquered Lacandon Maya / Joel W. Palka

Music syncretism in the postclassic K'iche' warrior dance and the colonial period Baile de los Moros y Cristianos / Mark Howell

Footpath of the dawn, footpath of the sun : Maya worldviews at Lake Atitlan / Robert S. Carlsen

Maya sacred landscapes at contact / Timothy W. Pugh.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781607320029

1607320029

OCLC:

558844310