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The sowing and the dawning : termination, dedication, and transformation in the archaeological and ethnographic record of Mesoamerica

Title
The sowing and the dawning : termination, dedication, and transformation in the archaeological and ethnographic record of Mesoamerica / edited by Shirley Boteler Mock.
Publication
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1998.

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Additional Authors
Mock, Shirley Boteler, 1942-
Description
vi, 198 p. : ill.; 29 cm.
Subject
  • Mayas > Rites and ceremonies
  • Mayas > Antiquities
  • Votive offerings > Latin America > History
  • Ceremonial objects > Latin America > History
  • Dedication services > Latin America > History
  • Ethnoarchaeology > Latin America
  • Latin America > Antiquities
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Zinacanteco dedication and termination rituals / Evon Z. Vogt -- Seven ingredients in Mesoamerican ensoulment: dedication and termination in Tenejapa / Brian Stross -- The Lacandon incense burner renewal ceremony: termination and dedication ritual among the comtemporary Maya / R. Jon McGee -- Dedication: ritual or production? / John Monaghan -- Intercessions with the gods: caches and their significance at Altun Ha and Lamanai, Belize / David M. Pendergast -- Maya dedications of authority / Sandra Noble -- Smashed pots and shattered dreams: the material evidence for an Early Classic Maya site termination at Cerros, Belize / Debra Selsor Walker -- The Blue Creek jade cache: Early Classic ritual in northwestern Belize / Thomas H. Guderjan -- The defaced and the forgotten: decapitation and flaying/mutilation as a termination event at Colha, Belize / Shirley Boteler Mock -- Bloody bowls and broken pots: the life, death, and rebirth of a Mayan house / James F. Garber ... [et al.] -- Termination ritual deposits at Yaxuna: detecting the historical in archaeological contexts / David A. Freidel, Charles K. Suhler, and Rafael Cobos Palma -- Termination programs and prehispanic looting at the Feathered Serpent Pyramid in Teotihuacan, Mexico / Saburo Sugiyama -- The writing on the wall: political representation and sacred geography at Monte Alban / Marilyn A. Masson and Heather Orr -- Recreating the cosmos: seventeen Aztec dedication caches / Leonardo López Luján -- Sacred work: dedication and termination in Mesoamerica / David Freidel.
Call Number
HBC 99-2491
ISBN
0826319831 (cloth)
LCCN
98023116
OCLC
39101969
Title
The sowing and the dawning : termination, dedication, and transformation in the archaeological and ethnographic record of Mesoamerica / edited by Shirley Boteler Mock.
Imprint
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1998.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Mock, Shirley Boteler, 1942-
Research Call Number
HBC 99-2491
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