Maya Worldviews at Conquest.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (447 pages)
- Mesoamerican Worlds Series .
- Mesoamerican Worlds Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Close Encounters -- 3: "In Recalling Things Past, I Strengthen My Heart": Accommodating the Past in Early Colonial Yucatán -- 4: Time, History, and Worldview -- 5: Cosmology and Creation in Late Postclassic Maya Literature and Art -- 6: Colonial Cave Art in the Northern Maya Lowlands: The Dark Side of the Maya Worldview after the Conquest -- 7: De Descriptio Idolorum: An Ethnohistorical Examination of the Production, Imagery, and Functions of Colonial Yucatec Maya Idols and Effigy Censers, 1540-1700 -- 8: Mesoamerican Communicating Objects: Mayan Worldviews Before, During, and After Spanish Contact -- 9: Clash of Worldviews in Late Mayapán -- 10: Religious Resistance and Persistence on Cozumel Island -- 11: Changes in Maya Religious Worldview: Liminality and the Archaeological Record -- 12: Kowoj Worldview: A View from Tipu -- 13: Agency and Worldviews of the Unconquered Lacandon Maya -- 14: Music Syncretism in the Postclassic K'iche' Warrior Dance and the Colonial Period Baile de los Moros y Cristianos -- 15: Footpath of the Dawn, Footpath of the Sun: Maya Worldviews at Lake Atitlán -- 16: Maya Sacred Landscapes at Contact -- References Cited -- Contributors -- Index.