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" In the maw of the earth monster "
/ edited by James E. Brady and Keith M. Prufer
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The Center of European Languages of Qom(Ale Beit Publications)
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BL
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2478
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b15081
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English
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Brady, James Edward, 1948
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In the maw of the earth monster:mesoamerican ritual cave use/ edited by James E. Brady and Keith M. Prufer
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1st ed.
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Austin: University of Texas Press,, 2005.
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(The Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies)
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viii, 438 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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0292705867((cl.) : alk.paper)
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Print
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction : a history of Mesoamerican cave interpretation / James E. Brady and Keith M. Prufer -- 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.] -- Pre-Hispanic rain ceremonies in Blade Cave, Sierra Mazateca, Oaxaca, Mexico / Janet Fitzsimmons -- Sacred caves and rituals from the northern Mixteca of Oaxaca, Mexico : new revelations / Carlos Rincaon Mautner -- 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 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 Tsibanaa 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 Mayapaan, Yucataan / Clifford T. Brown -- Concluding comments / Keith M. Prufer and James E. Brady.
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Indians of MexicoRites and ceremonies
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Indians of MexicoReligion
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Indians of MexicoAntiquities
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CavesReligious aspects
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MayasRites and ceremonies
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MayasReligion
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MayasAntiquities
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MexicoAntiquities
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305.897.42
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F1219.3.R38,I5 2005
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Prufer, Keith M، 1960
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