Materializing Ritual Practices - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1646422384 ISBN 13: 9781646422388

Casa editrice: Univ Pr of Colorado, 2022

Riassunto

Materializing Ritual Practices explores the deep history of ritual practice in Mexico and Central America and the ways interdisciplinary research can be coordinated to illuminate how rituals create, destroy, and transform social relations.
 
Ritual action produces sequences of creation, destruction, and transformation, which involve a variety of materials that are active and agential. The materialities of ritual may persist at temporal scales long beyond the lives of humans or be as ephemeral as spoken words, music, and scents. In this book, archaeologists and ethnographers, including specialists in narrative, music, and ritual practice, explore the rhythms and materiality of rituals that accompany everyday actions, like the construction of houses, healing practices, and religious festivals, and that paced commemoration of rulers, ancestor veneration, and relations with spiritual beings in the past.
 
Connecting the kinds of observed material discursive practices that ethnographers witness to the sedimented practices from which archaeologists infer similar practices in the past, Materializing Ritual Practices addresses how specific materialities encourage repetition in ritual actions and, in other circumstances, resist changes to ritual sequences. The volume will be of interest to cultural anthropologists, archaeologists, and linguists with interests in Central America, ritual, materiality, and time.
 
Contributors: M. Charlotte Arnauld, Giovani Balam Caamal, Isaac Barrientos, Cedric Becquey, Johann Begel, Valeria Bellomia, Juan Carillo Gonzalez, Maire Chosson, Julien Hiquet, Katrina Kosyk, Olivier Le Guen, Maria Luisa Vasquez de Agredos Pascual, Alessandro Lupo, Philippe Nondedeo, Julie Patrois, Russel Sheptak, Valentina Vapnarsky, Francisca Zalaquett Rock
 

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Informazioni sull?autore

Lisa M. Johnson is assistant professor-in-residence in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has authored and coauthored various peer-reviewed articles on the topic of Classic Maya ritual practice.
 
Rosemary A. Joyce is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is author, coauthor, or editor of eighteen books including Painted Pottery from Honduras and Material Relations.
 
 

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ Pr of Colorado
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1646422384
• ISBN 13: 9781646422388
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 308
• Redattore: Johnson Lisa M., Joyce Rosemary A.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile