Search Results for cosmology

...Charles Wagley Vital Souls: Bororo Cosmology, Natural Symbolism, and Shamanism . By Crocker Jon Christopher . Tucson : The University of Arizona Press , 1985 . Tables. Illustrations. Maps. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiii , 380 . Cloth. $29.50 . Copyright 1986...

...Susan E. Ramírez Inca Cosmology and the Human Body . By Classen Constance . Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press , 1993 . Maps. Illustrations. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . viii, 214 pp. Cloth. $29.95 . Agriculture and the Onset of Political Inequality Before...

...Othín Baños Ramírez Mexican Rural Development and the Plumed Serpent: Technology and Maya Cosmology in the Tropical Forest of Campeche, Mexico . By Faust Betty Bernice . Foreword by Meggers Betty J. . Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey , 1998 . Photographs. Illustrations...

...Thomas B. F. Cummins The Two Faces of Inca History: Dualism in the Narratives and Cosmology of Ancient Cuzco . By Yaya Isabel . The Early Americas: History and Culture . Boston : Brill , 2012 . Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. xii, 296 pp. Cloth , $144.00...

...Catherine H. Popovici Reshaping the World: Debates on Mesoamerican Cosmologies . Edited by Ana Díaz . Louisville : University Press of Colorado , 2020 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliographies. Index . xvi, 350 pp. Paper, $42.95 . Copyright © 2021...

... of curiosities belonging to Europe’s powerful elites. However, for indigenous pastoral peoples, bezoars were central to the reproduction of native cultural practices and directly linked to the foundational myths of Andean cosmology. The stones were believed to protect the herds and the shepherds, for whom...

... Fabian then develops an integrated, holistic interpretation of Bororo cosmology. His analysis is rich and complex; space here permits only a broad overview of his arguments. What is central to Bororo society, and therefore what is important for Fabian to establish from the beginning of his study...

...Terence Turner Whether the book is read as a straight ethnographic account of Tukanoan cosmology or as the idiosyncratic attempt of one man to arrive at a personally meaningful synthesis of his ancestral religion, the book is a fascinating document. It is indisputably the most coherent...

.... In the process, he elucidates the politico-cosmological world of indigenous societies as they experienced Spanish conquest and colonial rule. In a sense, this work stands in counterpoint to the superb intellectual history of the past three decades that has explored the impact of the conquest on Spanish...

... , $19.95 . Copyright 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 A People Who Would Not Kneel begins with a one-chapter overview of Kuna history and cosmology. James Howe then identifies various difficulties Kunas faced at the beginning of the twentieth century: internal strife, religious encroachment...

... a widespread and vibrant part of Baroque culture in Spanish America. The volume is organized into three sections, each with three essays. The first section examines the Old World cosmological position of the devil and of angels. Andrew Keitt turns to the classic medical and philosophical texts of sixteenth...

..., are the “Mixteca Puebla” traits originally proposed by Vaillant, including a four-part cosmology, as in the city plan of Tenochtitlán, and a two-part cosmology, represented by the two temples of the typical Aztec pyramid. Religion and calendar provide common qualities in central Mexico, and they govern...

... given new meaning as cosmological symbols, and new signs like the swastika were invented. Those who have worked with these symbols will undoubtedly have quibbles—with designations of categories, meaning shifts, and so forth— and the material perhaps does not always fit perfectly; but this does...

..., the jaguar is a primary symbol in the native cosmology, and the author discusses this widespread phenomenon in detail, including the ritual jaguar transformation of shamans during Banisteriopsis ceremonies. One of the significant contributions of this study is a section discussing the physiological...

... Trabulse selected three symbolic figures, who were almost exact contemporaries, to exemplify the shift from an ecclesiastical cosmology to a modern, secular cosmology by utilizing the polemic to which the Great Comet of 1680 gave rise on both sides of the Atlantic. The missionary-explorer...

... that the complex of motor habits, agriculture, indigenous cosmology, and local social structure has provided and will continue to provide an identity that allows villagers both to resist and to interpret changes that occur through the globalization of local communities. While he argues against the idealistic...

... argues, for example, that we will better understand human society if we expand our concept of culture, relating it more explicitly to how ideology combines with “structural power.” “Regnant ideologies” are constructed as part of cosmologies and are built on real cultural histories. One functional role...

...’ “core beliefs were not destroyed by the influences of Western Christianity” (p. 103). Rather, the “broad cosmological core” (pp. 116–17) of African religions (explanation, prediction, and control of human affairs) endured under slavery. Chapters on divination, calundú (spirit possession) and other...

... of interaction spheres centered at Huamachuco, Callejón de Huaylas, the north coast and the Marañon Basin. Although the recovery method is archaeological, Grieder does not dwell upon materialistic interpretations, but seeks to reconstruct the cosmology and symbolism of Pashash based on the premise that art...

... to themselves by constructing appropriate versions of the past. In this effort, European notions of linear time and historical veracity were both foreign and inconsequential, and the indigenous Mesoamerican concepts of cosmology and cyclical time were central. Thus, for example, the relationships between Cortés...