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The World Below
Aronoff Phyllis
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Description for The World Below
Paperback. Num Pages: 271 pages, b/w photos & illus. BIC Classification: 1KB; HRQ; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
Jacques Galinier surveys both traditional Otomi cosmology and colonial and contemporary Catholic rituals to illustrate the complexity of continuity and change in Mesoamerican religious ideology and practice. Galinier explores the problems of historical and family memory, models of space and time, the role of the human habitation in cosmology, shamanism and healing, and much more. He elucidates the way these realities are represented in a series of arresting oppositions -- both Otomi oppositions and the duality of indigenous and Catholic ritual life -- between the upper and lower human body. As Galinier details, in Otomi cosmology, psychological forces are ... Read more
Jacques Galinier surveys both traditional Otomi cosmology and colonial and contemporary Catholic rituals to illustrate the complexity of continuity and change in Mesoamerican religious ideology and practice. Galinier explores the problems of historical and family memory, models of space and time, the role of the human habitation in cosmology, shamanism and healing, and much more. He elucidates the way these realities are represented in a series of arresting oppositions -- both Otomi oppositions and the duality of indigenous and Catholic ritual life -- between the upper and lower human body. As Galinier details, in Otomi cosmology, psychological forces are ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University Press of Colorado United States
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
Number of Pages
299
Place of Publication
Colorado, United States
ISBN
9780870817731
SKU
V9780870817731
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About Aronoff Phyllis
Jacques Galinier is research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique's Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative, Universite Paris X. Howard Scott and Phyllis Aronoff are the award-winning translators of Gilles Havard's The Great Peace of Montreal (McGill-Queen's University Press).
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