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In the maw of the earth monster : Mesoamerican ritual cave use / edited by James E. Brady and Keith M. Prufer.

Contributor(s): Brady, James Edward, 1948- | Prufer, Keith M. (Keith Malcolm), 1960-
Language: English Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005.Description: x, 438p. : ill., diagrs., drawings, maps, photos., plates ; 24cm.ISBN: 0292705867
Contents:
Introduction: a history of Mesoamerican cave interpretation / James E. Brady and Keith M. Prufer. 1. Central Mexico. Rites of passage and other ceremonies in caves / Doris Heyden; The cave-pyramid complex among the contemporary Nahua of northern Veracruz / Alan R. Sandstrom; Constructing mythic space: the significance of a Chicomoztoc complex at Acatzingo Viejo / Manuel Aguilar ... [et al.]. 2. Oaxaca. Pre-Hispanic rain ceremonies in Blade Cave, Sierra Mazateca, Oaxaca, Mexico / Janet Fizsimmons; Sacred caves and rituals from the northern Mixteca of Oaxaca, Mexico: new revelations / Carlos Rincón Mautner. 3. The Maya region. Some notes on ritual caves among the ancient and modern Maya / Evon Z. Vogt and David Stuart; Shamans, caves, and the roles of ritual specialists in Maya society / Keith M. Prufer; Cave stelae and and megalithic monuments in western Belize / Jaime J. Awe, Cameron Griffith, and Sherry Gibbs; A cognitive approach to artifact distribution in caves of the Maya area / Andrea Stone; Cluster concentrations, boundary markers, and ritual pathways: a GIS analysis of artifact cluster patterns at Actun Tunichil Muknal, Belize / Holley Moyes; Ethnographic notes on Maya Q'eqchi' cave rites: implications for archaeological interpretation / Abigail E. Adams and James E. Brady; A Lacandon religious ritual in the cave of the God Tsibaná at the holy lake of Mensabok in the rainforest of Chiapas / Jaroslaw Theodore Petryshyn; Beneath the Yalahau: emerging patterns of ancient Maya ritual cave use from Northern Quintana Roo, Mexico / Dominique Rissolo; Caves, karst and settlement at Mayapán, Yucatán / Clifford T. Brown; Concluding comments / Keith M. Prufer and James E. Brady.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: a history of Mesoamerican cave interpretation / James E. Brady and Keith M. Prufer. 1. Central Mexico. Rites of passage and other ceremonies in caves / Doris Heyden; The cave-pyramid complex among the contemporary Nahua of northern Veracruz / Alan R. Sandstrom; Constructing mythic space: the significance of a Chicomoztoc complex at Acatzingo Viejo / Manuel Aguilar ... [et al.]. 2. Oaxaca. Pre-Hispanic rain ceremonies in Blade Cave, Sierra Mazateca, Oaxaca, Mexico / Janet Fizsimmons; Sacred caves and rituals from the northern Mixteca of Oaxaca, Mexico: new revelations / Carlos Rincón Mautner. 3. The Maya region. Some notes on ritual caves among the ancient and modern Maya / Evon Z. Vogt and David Stuart; Shamans, caves, and the roles of ritual specialists in Maya society / Keith M. Prufer; Cave stelae and and megalithic monuments in western Belize / Jaime J. Awe, Cameron Griffith, and Sherry Gibbs; A cognitive approach to artifact distribution in caves of the Maya area / Andrea Stone; Cluster concentrations, boundary markers, and ritual pathways: a GIS analysis of artifact cluster patterns at Actun Tunichil Muknal, Belize / Holley Moyes; Ethnographic notes on Maya Q'eqchi' cave rites: implications for archaeological interpretation / Abigail E. Adams and James E. Brady; A Lacandon religious ritual in the cave of the God Tsibaná at the holy lake of Mensabok in the rainforest of Chiapas / Jaroslaw Theodore Petryshyn; Beneath the Yalahau: emerging patterns of ancient Maya ritual cave use from Northern Quintana Roo, Mexico / Dominique Rissolo; Caves, karst and settlement at Mayapán, Yucatán / Clifford T. Brown; Concluding comments / Keith M. Prufer and James E. Brady.

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