Temporalities in Mesoamerican ritual practices / edited by Valentina Vapnarsky, Dominique Michelet, Aurore Monod Becquelin, and Philippe Nondédéo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vapnarsky, Valentina, editor.

Michelet, Dominique, editor.

Monod-Becquelin, Aurore, editor.

Nondédéo, Philippe, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of Mexico--Rites and ceremonies.

Indians of Mexico.

Indians of Central America--Rites and ceremonies.

Indians of Central America.

Mayas--Rites and ceremonies.

Mayas.

Aztecs--Rites and ceremonies.

Aztecs.

Time--Social aspects--Mexico.

Time.

Time--Social aspects--Central America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 389 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)

Other Title:

Path to Open

Place of Publication:

Denver, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2024]

Summary:

"Temporalities in Mesoamerican Ritual Practices examines the time-based dimensions of ritual activities in past and present Mesoamerican societies, including the prehispanic, colonial, and modern periods. The authors explore ritual around three principal categories of action—creating, transforming, and destroying—as significant cultural manifestations of the temporal dimension of transition processes. Based on specific case studies, new analysis of fieldwork data, and long-term collaboration between authors, chapters engage empirically and theoretically with the multiple temporalities of ritual in relation to both the unfolding of ritual performance and its external and symbolic anchors. Taking rituals as a series of specific, formalized actions that produce transitory changes within an initial context, the authors examine activities that generate change linked to artifact production, life cycles, healing, conflict resolution, crisis management, the enthronement of rulers and transfers of responsibilities, and practices relating to the occupation, abandonment, reuse, or conversion of socialized spaces. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach in archaeology, ethnohistory, anthropology, and linguistic anthropology, Temporalities in Mesoamerican Ritual Practices offers new insights into ritual time approached through multi-semiotic, material, sensorial, and pragmatic perspectives that encourage further interdisciplinary dialogue."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Temporalities in Mesoamerican ritual practices : an introduction / Valentina Vapnarsky, Dominique Michelet, and Aurore Monod Becquelin

Night and day in the Templo Mayor at Tenochtitlan : the different renderings of Huitzilopochtli's creation myth / Leonardo López Luján

Probable occasional ceremonies at the end of the Maya Classic period / Dominique Michelet

Ritual speech and the transformation of time : the grammar and voice of temporalization in Yucatec Maya rituals / Valentina Vapnarsky

Time compression in Aztec ritual artifacts and gods / Danièle Dehouve

Witz and Tz'uultaq'a : ritual temporality in caves at Raxruha, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala / Chloé Andrieu, Efraín Tox, Divina Perla-Barrera, Julien Sion, and Fidel Tuyuc

Myth and ritual : temporality through the lens of analogy / Perig Pitrou

Male pregnancy and the rebirth of the year : actors and temporalities in a Tseltal instauration Ritual (Bachajon, Chiapas) / Alain Breton, Marie Chosson, and Aurore Monod Becquelin

The materialities of ritual practices : an archaeology of traces of stylized events / Rosemary A. Joyce

Recreating the memory of the origins: sociocultural meanings of "graphic symbols" in land titles / Tsubasa Okoshi

Substances, subjects, and senses : temporality of perception in Nahua rituals / Alessandro Lupo

Rituals of inauguration : temporalities and spatialities in the Maya area and Mesoamerica / Marie Chosson, Johann Begel, and Cédric Becquey

Monuments and mounds as time : a brief argument for the Isthmo-Colombian area / Alexander Geurds

The end of the long dynastic time in the southern Maya lowlands (750-810 CE) / M. Charlotte Arnauld and Chloé Andrieu

To figure, to condense, and to stretch : temporalities and gestures in the colonial catechisms of Mexico / Bérénice Gaillemin

The liturgical challenge to historical temporality : from St. Dominic's Ways of prayer to the contemporary Ikoots Mipoch dios (God's Words) of San Mateo del Mar (Oaxaca, Mexico) / Flavia G. Cuturi

Biblical landscapes and migration histories : the "ten lost tribes of Israel" in colonial highland Guatemala / Sergio Romero.

Notes:

Title from online title page (viewed on May 21, 2025).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Temporalities in Mesoamerican ritual practices

ISBN:

9781646426829

1646426827

OCLC:

1492299825

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.