Exploring Highland Maya ritual cave use
Subtitle: archaeology & ethnography in Huehuetenango, Guatemala
By: edited by James E. Brady
Series: Bulletin / Association for Mexican Cave Studies -- 20; Bulletin (Association for Mexican Cave Studies) -- 20
Publisher: Association for Mexican Cave Studies
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Austin, Texas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 97
Subjects: Mayas; Rites and ceremonies; Caves; Religious aspects; Excavations (Archaeology); Antiquities
Other titles: Highland Maya ritual cave use
Notes: "This report presents the results of fieldwork undertaken in 2007 by the Summer Field Program in Anthropology run by the Anthropology Department at California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA)"--Page 7.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Queen Santo --; title: Queen Santo revisited : updating Eduard Seler's 19th century cave studies  -- James E. Brady, Allan Cobb, Linda Palit, Donald Arburn, Sergio Garza, Christian Christiansen, Arturo Perez, Ann M. Scott, and Arnulfo Delgado; title: A restudy of cave 1 at Queen Santo  -- Jenny Guerra and James E. Brady; title: New cave discoveries at Queen Santo, Huehuetenango, Guatemala  -- C. L. Keiffer; title: The cosmological and social significance of Queen Santo in contemporary Maya society  -- Sergio Garza; title: Nentón --; title: Caves and fish in mesoamerica : an initial consideration  -- James E. Brady and Sergio Garza; title: Jacaltenango --; title: The gendered use of caves in the Jakaltec and Chuj areas  -- C. L. Keiffer, Sergio Garza, and James E. Brady; title: The Chicomoztoc and modern Jakaltee ethnography  -- James E. Brady and Arnulfo Delgado; title: Santa Eulalia --; title: A reassessment of ethnographic data on cave utilization in Santa Eulalia  -- James E. Brady and Sergio Garza; title: Aspects of ritual organization in Santa Eulalia, Guatemala  -- Sergio Garza and James E. Brady; title: Gender complementarity and separation in Maya ritual  -- Sergio Garza; title: Ritual cave use among Q'anjob'alan peoples in colonial northern Huehuetenango -- Stacey Schwartzkopf.