Mesas & cosmologies in Mesoamerica
By: edited by Douglas Sharon ; [with contributions by James E. Brady ... et al.].
Contributors: Sharon, Douglas.; Brady, James Edward, 1948-
Series: San Diego Museum papers -- 42; San Diego Museum papers -- no. 42.
Publisher: San Diego Museum of Man
Published: 2003
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780937808801
Subjects: Cosmology -- Congresses; Indians of Mexico -- Rites and ceremonies -- Congresses; Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Rites and ceremonies -- Congresses; Shamanism -- Mexico -- Congresses; Shamanism -- Guatemala -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Mesas and cosmologies in Mesoamerica
Notes: " ... collection of papers presented at the 11th Latin American Symposium, San Diego Museum of Man, March 16, 2002"--P. vi.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Douglas Sharon; title: Introduction: Shamanism, mesas & cosmologies in middle America / Douglas Sharon; title: Central and Northern Mexico : Curanderos' altar-mesas in Mexico City / Roberto Campos-Navarro; title: Sierra Otomí religious symbolism : mankind responding to the natural world / James W. Dow; title: The annual "Royal Ceremony" on Mt. Tlaloc : mountain fertility ritualism in the late pre-Hispanic basin of Mexico / H.B. Nicholson; title: Sacred mountains and miniature worlds : altar design among the Nahua of Northern Veracruz, Mexico / Alan R. Sandstrom; title: The Wixárika (Huichol) Altar : place of the souls, stairway of the sun / Stacy B. Schaefer; title: Southern Mexico and Guatemala: In my hill, in my valley : the importance of place in ancient Maya ritual / James E. Brady; title: Manipulating the cosmos : shamanic tables among the highland Maya / Allen J. Christenson; title: Altars for ancestors : Maya altars for the days of the dead in Yucatán / Judith Green; title: Wind, rain, and stone : ancient and contemporary Maya meteorology / Matthew G. Looper; title: Shamanic mesas of Yucatán and their historical roots / Bruce Love; title: Shamanism, colonialism, and the mesa in Mesoamerican religious discourse / John Monaghan.