Ancient Zapotec Religion: An Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Perspective - Hardcover

Lind, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1607323737 ISBN 13: 9781607323730

Verlag: University Press of Colorado, 2015

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"An excellent, impressive piece of scholarship . . . a valuable resource for scholars and students alike."
--Sarah B. Barber, University of Central Florida

An excellent, impressive piece of scholarship . . . a valuable resource for scholars and students alike.
Sarah B. Barber, University of Central Florida
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"As many scholars of Oaxaca and of ancient Mesoamerican religion in general know, there is a paucity of literature on Zapotec religion when compared to what is known about the Maya and Nahua belief systems. Lind s project is thus timely and offers new insights into this little known area of ancient Zapotec society."
Hilary M. Leathem, "Anthropology News""

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Ancient Zapotec Religion is the first comprehensive study of Zapotec religion as it existed in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on the eve of the Spanish Conquest. Author Michael Lind brings a new perspective, focusing not on underlying theological principles but on the material and spatial expressions of religious practice.

Using sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish colonial documents and archaeological findings related to the time period leading up to the Spanish Conquest, he presents new information on deities, ancestor worship and sacred bundles, the Zapotec cosmos, the priesthood, religious ceremonies and rituals, the nature of temples, the distinctive features of the sacred and solar calendars, and the religious significance of the murals of Mitla—the most sacred and holy center. He also shows how Zapotec religion served to integrate Zapotec city-state structure throughout the valley of Oaxaca, neighboring mountain regions, and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

Ancient Zapotec Religion is the first in-depth and interdisciplinary book on the Zapotecs and their religious practices and will be of great interest to archaeologists, epigraphers, historians, and specialists in Native American, Latin American, and religious studies.

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• Verlag: University Press of Colorado
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1607323737
• ISBN 13: 9781607323730
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416