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

522 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES Religious organization below the occasionally present parish priest (usually a Spaniar ...

CHAPTER 14 THE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF MESOAMERICA 523 earth deities, constituted an area in which precontact customs could cont ...

524 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES city underclasses, newly acculturated Indians have proven to be particularly attractiv ...

CHAPTER 14 THE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF MESOAMERICA 525 affirm that the Chamula Tzotzil people crucified a young man on Good Frid ...

526 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES activity, on the other, has had an enormous impact on the religious configuration of t ...

CHAPTER 14 THE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF MESOAMERICA 527 IS THERE A COMMON CORE OF MESOAMERICAN SPIRITUALITY? Although it is relat ...

528 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES (see Box 14.2 on Thomas Gage’s seventeenth-century report from Guatemala). The co- ess ...

CHAPTER 14 THE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF MESOAMERICA 529 Mesoamerica and in hundreds of contemporary communities. Shamanism, heroi ...

530 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES with a bisexual honorific title, for example, “Fathers-Mothers” or “Grandmothers- Gran ...

CHAPTER 14 THE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF MESOAMERICA 531 agree with Sapir, but would be likely to force the issue to greater hyper ...

532 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES persisted throughout the colonial and early modern periods (perhaps even today) as und ...

CHAPTER 14 THE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF MESOAMERICA 533 ANNIS, SHELDON 1987 God and Production in a Guatemalan Town.Austin: Unive ...

GLOSSARY 534 acculturation: the process by which a sub- ordinate culture changes to become more like the dominant culture during ...

power of large landholders, the army, and the Catholic Church, and favored central- ized political and economic power. chia: a s ...

encomienda: system that rewarded certain individuals (encomenderos) with the rights to goods and labor of a specific group of na ...

machismo: an ideology and its practices that place a high value on male dominance and virility. maestro de cantor: Indian offici ...

pilli (plural, pipiltin): Nahuatl term for a noble. Pleistocene: the geological period of colder climate that began about 100,00 ...

Treaty of Tordesillas: 1493 treaty between Spain and Portugal that gave Spain the rights to all lands to the west of a certain l ...

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES 540 ABREUGÓMEZ, ERMILOl979 Canek: History and Legend of a Maya Hero,translated with an introduction by ...

BLANTON, RICHARDE., S. A. KOWALEWSKI, GARYFEINMAN, ANDLAURAFINSTEN 1992 Ancient Mesoamerica:A Com- parison of Change in Three Re ...