The Legacy of Mesoamerica History and Culture of a Native American Civilization, 2nd Edition

502 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES Because of the personal anecdotal origin of what is told here, we are able to under- s ...

CHAPTER 13 THE INDIAN VOICE IN RECENT MESOAMERICAN LITERATURE 503 intrigues and greater dangers. “I know nothing of you,” he sai ...

504 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES assertion that coessences are important, but she takes it a step further, suggesting t ...

505 CHAPTER 14 THE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF MESOAMERICA THE ANCIENT WORLD From at least 2000 B.C., Mesoamerican religious traditi ...

other civilizations, as the complex product of boththe political and economic means to form larger, integrated polities andthe s ...

and practices that were possibly similar to the shamanic traditions that survive today among the Eskimos of Arctic North America ...

linked to the identity, property rights, and social status of the corresponding social group. These patterns probably came to fo ...

fluence, these larger polities built impressive administrative and ritual centers that expressed their growing dominance in regi ...

510 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES creation of the fifth age of the cosmos, their own era, to mythical events that took p ...

CHAPTER 14 THE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF MESOAMERICA 511 Figure 14.3 It can therefore be said without exaggeration that much of th ...

512 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES Figure 14.4 A schematic drawing of a Mesoamerican ball court in the shape of a capital ...

CHAPTER 14 THE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF MESOAMERICA 513 Figure 14.5 The Tuxtla Statuette. Iconography, writing, and long count da ...

514 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES Box 14.1 Precepts of Mayan Religion If Aztec spirituality was preoccupied primarily wi ...

CHAPTER 14 THE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF MESOAMERICA 515 When the child is conceived, when he is placed in the womb, his destiny ( ...

516 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES Hundreds of churches sat on or near the ruins of pyramid mounds that had been the foun ...

CHAPTER 14 THE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF MESOAMERICA 517 Religious Syncretism and Local Realities In 1531 (according to a legend t ...

518 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES The cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe is but one of the thousands of “encounter themes” ...

CHAPTER 14 THE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF MESOAMERICA 519 the new Christian doctrine, they did so in highly diverse ways that were ...

520 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES Box 14.2 Gage’s Account of a Little Tradition The following account is from a famous s ...

CHAPTER 14 THE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF MESOAMERICA 521 The Social Organization of the Colonial Church In a profound sense, Spain ...