Maya Divination: Ritual Techniques of Distributed Cognition
Based on more than 24 months of ethnographic research among Maya ritualists in the western highlands of Guatemala, this article examines how pajooneem, or tz’ite’ seed divination, facilitates decision-making and distributes cognition between client, diviner, and ritual techniques. Tz’ite’ seed divin...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Brill
2016
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Journal of cognition and culture
Year: 2016, Volume: 16, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 177-198 |
| Further subjects: | B
Agency
decision-making
divination
distributed cognition
Maya
ritual
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Volltext (Verlag) |