Maya Intimacy with the Mountains: Pilgrimage, Sacrifice and Existential Economy
In this paper, I present two very different and yet very similar ethnographic examples of mountain-related pilgrimage and sacrifice rituals performed by the present-day highland Maya. The question I ask is why the sense of sacredness, animation and power of the mountains endures among the traditiona...
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| Main Author: | Jan Kapusta |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2016-06-01
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| Series: | Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics |
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| Online Access: | https://www.jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/231 |
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