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1 online resource (xii, 417 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Early Americas : history and culture,
1875-3264 ;
volume 4
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Early Americas ; v. 4.
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| Summary |
Drawing upon the category "ritual practices of time" the book offers a comparative analytical model and theoretical insights about calendars in Mesoamerica and in general. This comprehensive study systematically explicates how ritual practises are represented and conceptualised in intellectual systems and societies. |
| Contents |
The Ritual Symbolic Temporal Importance of the 260-day CalendarNote on Correlation and Orthography; Chapter One; THE RITUAL PRACTICE OF TIME OF THE LONG COUNT CALENDAR OF THE CLASSIC MAYA; 1. The Ritual Sequential (Interval) Structure of the Long Count Calendar; 2. Methodology of Analysing the Rituals of Time of the Long Count Calendar; 3. Cosmogonies and the Ritual Practice of Time and Space; 4. Eschatology and the Ritual Practice of Time; 5. The Politics and Social Ritual Practice of Time; 6. The Philosophy and Religious Ritual Practices of Linear Divine Time. |
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THE RITUAL PRACTICE OF TIME OF THE 260-DAY CALENDAR AND THE 365-DAY CALENDAR OF THE POSTCLASSIC YUCATEC CIVILISATIONChapter Two; THE RITUAL PRACTICE OF TIME OF THE 260-DAY CALENDAR OF THE POSTCLASSIC YUCATEC CIVILISATION: THE BURNER CEREMONIES OF QUADRIPARTITE 65-DAY INTERVALS; 1. Interval Rituals of the 260-day Calendar in Mesoamerica; 2. Sources and Research History; 3. The 260-day Calendar of Mesoamerica; 4. The Quadripartite Ritual Sequential Interval (65-days) Structure of a Cycle of 260-days; 5. The Starting and Termination Date of the 260-day Calendar. |
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6. Cosmogony and the Ritual Practice of Time7. A Spatial-Temporal (Quadripartite) Ritual; 8. A Symbolic Agricultural Temporal Ritual; 9. The Ritual Practice of the Quadripartite Interval Sequence of the Four Burner Periods (65-days) of 260-days; Chapter Three; THE RITUAL PRACTICE OF TIME OF THE 365-DAY CALENDAR OF THE POSTCLASSIC YUCATEC CIVILISATION; 1. The Cyclic Calendar Ending and Calendar Inaugurating Ritual; 2. Sources and Research History; 3. The Postclassic Yucatec New Year Ceremony as a Rite de Passage. |
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4. The Ritual Structure of the Mesoamerican and the European Catholic Liturgical 365-day Calendar5. An Interval Ritual: A Ritual Transition from Xul to Yaxk'in and Mol within the Postclassic Yucatec 365-day Calendar; 6. Cosmogony and the Ritual Practice of Time and Space; 7. A Spatial-Temporal Ritual; 8. The Politics and Social Ritual Practice of Time; 9. The Year Bearer: A Deified Burden of Time of the Cyclic 365-day Calendar; 10. The Postclassic Yucatec New Year Festival as an Agricultural Ritual. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Maya calendar -- Religion.
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Maya calendar. |
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Religion. |
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Central America -- History -- Calendars.
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Central America. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Calendars.
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Central America -- Civilization.
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Civilization. |
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Electronic books.
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Calendars.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pharo, Lars Kirkhusmo. Ritual practice of time. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014 9789004252356 (DLC) 2013026055 (OCoLC)854857944 |
| ISBN |
9789004252363 (electronic book) |
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9004252363 (electronic book) |
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130621033X (electronic book) |
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9781306210331 (electronic book) |
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9004252355 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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9789004252356 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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9789004252356 |
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