Title The Maya world of communicating objects : quadripartite crosses, trees, and stones / Miguel Angel Astor-Aguilera.

Publication Info.	Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2010]
	©2010

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Description	1 online resource (xix, 330 pages) : illustrations, map
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-323) and index.
Contents	What Are Mesoamerican Religions? -- The Living Ancestors -- Postclassic and Colonial Mesoamerican World Views and Mayan Communicating Objects -- Close Encounters with Maya and Roman Catholic Crosses -- Pigs for the Sun and a Mayan Communicating Stela -- Communicating Bundles and the Ancestors.
Summary	Astor-Aguilera argues that the western concept of religion and religious objects is not the framework for understanding Mayan cosmology or practice.
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Subject	Maya cosmology.
	Maya cosmology.
	Mayas -- Rites and ceremonies.
	Mayas -- Rites and ceremonies.
	Maya architecture.
	Maya architecture.
	Inscriptions, Mayan.
	Inscriptions, Mayan.
	Ceremonial objects.
	Ceremonial objects.
	Symbolism in art.
	Symbolism in art.
	Symbolism in architecture.
	Symbolism in architecture.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Astor-Aguilera, Miguel Angel, 1961- Maya world of communicating objects. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2010 (DLC) 2010033755
ISBN	9780826347657 (electronic book)
	0826347657 (electronic book)
	1283637030
	9781283637039
	6613949493
	9786613949493
	0826347630 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	9780826347633