Contextualizing Caves within an Animate Maya Landscape: Caves as Living Agents in the Past and Present

After groundbreaking work by multiple archaeologists in the latter half of the 20th century, caves in the Maya world are currently acknowledged as fundamentally ritual rather than domestic spaces. However, a more nuanced read of the anthropological literature and conversations with Indigenous collab...

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Main Author: Woodfill, Brent K. S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2021
In: Religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 12, Issue: 12
Further subjects:B Ontology
B animate landscape
B Maya
B cave archaeology
B Ritual
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