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Religions of Mesoamerica: Cosmovision and Ceremonial Centers (Religious Traditions of the World)
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Engaging exploration of religious expression in Mexico! Highly regarded scholar Davd Carrasco provides an overview of the history of Mesoamerican cultures and vividly describes their religious forms, structures, myths, and prevailing "cosmovision"--the Mesoamerican view of time and space and its ritualized representation and enactment. Carrasco details the dynamics of two important cultures--the Aztec and the Maya--and discusses the impact of the Spanish conquest and the continuity of native traditions into the post-Columbian and contemporary eras. Integrating recent archaeological discoveries in Mexico City, he brings about a comprehensive understanding of ritual human sacrifice, a subject often ignored in religious studies.
DESCRIPTION:
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 248
EAN: 9781577660064
ISBN: 1577660064
Label: Waveland Press
Manufacturer: Waveland Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 174
Publication Date: 1998-04
Publisher: Waveland Press
Studio: Waveland Press
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Summary: Space and time before Christianity
Comment: This book was an assigned text in a class I took on Latin American history. It covers the view of the world, in a spiritual, religious and philosophical sense, as adopted by the Aztecs, Mayans, and several other groups in the area now known as Mexico and Central America. The author explores this world view as it existed prior to Columbus, and in the proceeding centuries as influences such as Christianity seeped in. The author cites many primary and secondary sources, such as ancient Native American texts, journal entries from early Spanish explorers, and oral histories of Native Mexicans. The book is more than a religious studies text; it also explores the history of contact between the Spanish and the natives, and shows how this contact changed the worldviews of the Native Americans.
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Summary: More spaceball cosmovision
Comment: The author is a spacey new-age historian whose main concept is "cosmovision". This is not rigorous stuff, but is spacey speculation.
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Summary: Great.
Comment: The application of worldmaking, worldcentering and worldrenewal as a way to understand the role of activities within any cultural system is a brilliant idea, although not applied cross-culturally in Mr. Carrasco's book. I have used these concepts to explore other cultures and ideas and have found it quite interesting. It is a way of understanding something on unique grounds. Every culture, every human being, I think, employs this type of process in his/her view of things.
The book, not only for its content, but also the way it introduces and organizes ideas is really worth merit and worth reading.
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Summary: A basic set of tools for understanding all systems...
Comment: In terms of understanding the way the human creature perceives the world around it, Carrasco offers a set of tools from which to build a nearly universal understanding of far more than just Mesoamerican belief systems. The need found in one religious system is universal to others because they serve the same basic human need. World-centering, world-renewing and world-making are all done in every system of religious or philosphical belief.
Carrasco's study of Mesoamerican belief is detailed and fascinating. It can lead one into a much larger view of the world.
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Summary: Good insight into Mesoamerican religions
Comment: I was delighted to find this book, as the author does a marvelous job of explaining the religons of complex cultures such as the Olmecs, Toltecs, Aztecs and Mayans in a way that is thoughtful and easy to read. Unlike several other similar texts, this is not boring. Nor do you need to be an anthropologist to enjoy or understand this text. It opens up fascinating worldviews to the average reader. I highly recommend it. Good chronology included.
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