Coyote drums and jaguar altars: Ontologies of the living and the artificial among the K’iche’ Maya
For the current-day K’iche’ Maya of the Highland community of Momostenango, Guatemala, animals are conceived as having not human, but artificial souls: they are, in fact, objects that exist in the mountain dwellings of their gods. Conversely, artefacts like sacred altars are seen as being wild anima...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
[2020]
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Journal of material culture
Year: 2020, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 324-347 |
| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BB Indigenous religions KBR Latin America |
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Material Culture
B Aztec B Ontology B Perspectivism B K’iche’ Maya |
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