Domestic ritual in ancient Mesoamerica / edited by Patricia Plunket.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Plunket, Patricia Scarborough, 1951- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Rites and ceremonies.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (146 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, [2002]

Summary:

Although the concepts and patterns of ritual varied through time in relation to general sociopolitical transformations and local historical circumstances in ancient Mesoamerica, most archaeologists would agree that certain underlying themes and structures modeled the ritual phenomena of this complex culture area.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Table of Contents

Frontispiece

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Middle Formative Domestic Ritual at Chalcatzingo, Morelos

Chapter 3: Lineages and Ancestors: Formative Mortuary Assemblages of Tetimpa, Puebla

Chapter 4: Shrines, Ancestors, and the Volcanic Landscape at Tetimpa, Puebla

Chapter 5: Living with the Ancestors and Offering to the Gods

Chapter 6: Domestic Ritual in Tlailotlacan, Teotihuacan

Chapter 7: Monte Alban: Mortuary Practices as Domestic Ritual and Their Relation to Community Religion

Chapter 8: Household Production of Extra-Household Ritual at the Ceren Site, El Salvador

Chapter 9: Domestic Ritual at Aztec Provincial Sites in Morelos

Chapter 10: Rethinking the Great and Little Tradition Paradigm from the Perspective of Domestic Ritual

Glossary

References

Contributors.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-938770-69-2

OCLC:

1104088155