The pilgrimage to the living mountains: representationalism, animism, and the Maya

In this contribution, I provide an ethnography of the Maya New Year’s pilgrimage and sacrifice ritual, in which a delicate relatedness between people and animate mountains is established, enacted, and expressed. Far from the body–spirit, object–subject, and nature–culture dualities, these mountains...

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Main Author: Kapusta, Jan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2022
In: Religion, state & society
Year: 2022, Volume: 50, Issue: 2, Pages: 182-198
Further subjects:B New Year ceremony
B Maya religion
B Pilgrimage
B Animism
B Sacrifice
B western alternative spirituality
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