Focuses on ritual expression in at the household level; comparing the manifestation ofs of domestic ritual across time and space in both the cores and peripheries of ancient Mesoamerica; in the cities and in the villages. The authors explore the ways in whihc cosmological principles and concepts of the sacred were used in the construction of ritual space and practice; how local landscapes provided templates for the images and paraphernalia recovered from archaeological contexts; how foreign enclaves relaied on ritual for social reproduction; and how domestic ritual was related to; and indeed embedded in; institutionalized state religions.
#1143430 in Books 2017-11-30Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 11.00 x 1.00 x 8.50l; #File Name: 1910809071480 pages
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