The Maya world of communicating objects : quadripartite crosses, trees, and stones / Miguel Angel Astor-Aguilera.
| Author/creator | Astor-Aguilera, Miguel Angel, 1961- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2010. |
| Description | xix, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | What are Mesoamerican religions? -- The living ancestors : regeneration in preclassic and classic Mesoamerican imagery -- Postclassic and colonial Mesoamerican world views and Mayan communicating objects -- Close encounters with Maya and Roman Catholic crosses -- Pigs for the sun and a Mayan communicating Stela -- Communicating bundles and the ancestors : historically traditional Maya cosmologies -- End discussion : quadripartitioning and Native American relational world views. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-323) and index. |
| LCCN | 2010033755 |
| ISBN | 9780826347633 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0826347630 (cloth : alk. paper) |