Sacred bundles
Subtitle: ritual acts of wrapping and binding in Mesoamerica
By: Julia Guernsey, F. Kent Reilly, editors
Series: Ancient America special publication -- no. 1; Ancient America -- no. 1
Publisher: Boundary End Archaeology Research Center
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Barnardsville, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780979105203
Subjects: Medicine bundles; Mayas; Rites and ceremonies; Indians of Mexico; Indians of Central America
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Middle Formative origins of the Mesoamerican ritual act of bundling  -- F. Kent Reilly; title: Late Formative period antecedents for ritually bound monuments  -- Julia Guernsey; title: Fit to be tied : funerary practices among the prehispanic Maya  -- Kathryn Reese-Taylor, Marc Zender, Pamela L. Geller; title: Soul bundle caches, tombs, and cenotaphs : creating the places of resurrection and accession in Maya kingship  -- David A. Freidel, Stanley Paul Guenter; title: Fabric structures in classic Maya art and ritual  -- Matthew G. Looper; title: Power material in ancient Mesoamerica : the roles of cloth among the classic Maya  -- Dorie Reents-Budet; title: Jade and chocolate : bundles of wealth in classic Maya economics and ritual  -- David Stuart; title: Textile designs in the sculptured facades of northern Maya architecture : women's production, cloth, tribute, and political power  -- Jeff Karl Kowalski, Virginia E. Miller; title: Ancestral burdens in Gulf Coast cultures  -- Annabeth Headrick, Rex Koontz; title: Sacred bundles and the coronation of the Aztec king in Mexico-Tenochtitlan  -- Guilhem Olivier; title: Sacred bundle cults in highland Guatemala -- Allen J. Christenson.