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Title Reshaping the world : debates on Mesoamerican cosmologies / edited by Ana Díaz
Published Louisville : University Press of Colorado, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 350 pages)
Contents Introduction : rethinking the Mesoamerican cosmos / Ana Díaz -- Colliding universes : a reconsideration of the structure of the pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cosmos / Jesper Nielsen and Toke Sellner Reunert -- Incorporating Mesoamerican cosmology within a global history of religion : some considerations on the work of Lorenzo Pignoria / Sergio Botta -- Dissecting the sky : discursive translations in Mexican colonial cosmographies / Ana Díaz -- The colonial encounter : transformations of Indigenous Yucatec conceptions of k'uh / Gabrielle Vail -- Zapotec travels in time and space : the correlation between the 260-day cycle and a multi-level cosmological model / David Tavárez -- A cosmology of water : the universe according to the Ch'orti' Maya / Kerry Hull -- Distance and power in classic Maya texts / Alexandre Tokovinine -- The sky, the night and the number nine : considerations on the Nahua vision of the universe / Katarzyna Miku'lska -- Creating and destroying the upper part of the cosmos : a new approach to Wixarka cosmology / Johannes Neurath
Summary "An exploration of the plurality, complexity, and adaptability of Precolumbian and colonial-era Mesoamerican cosmological models and the ways anthropologists and historians have used colonial and Indigenous texts to understand these models. That model comprised nine fixed layers of underworld and thirteen fixed layers of heavens"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 21, 2020)
Subject Indian cosmology.
Indians of Mexico -- Religion.
Indians of Central America -- Religion.
Indians of Mexico -- Rites and ceremonies.
Indians of Central America -- Rites and ceremonies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Indian cosmology
Indians of Central America -- Religion
Indians of Central America -- Rites and ceremonies
Indians of Mexico -- Religion
Indians of Mexico -- Rites and ceremonies
Form Electronic book
Author Díaz Álvarez, Ana María, editor
LC no. 2019032322
ISBN 1607329530
9781607329534