Maya Intimacy with the Mountains: Pilgrimage, Sacrifice and Existential Economy

In this paper, I present two very different and yet very similar ethnographic examples of mountain-related pilgrimage and sacrifice rituals performed by the present-day highland Maya. The question I ask is why the sense of sacredness, animation and power of the mountains endures among the traditiona...

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Main Author: Jan Kapusta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2016-06-01
Series:Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics
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Online Access:https://www.jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/231
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