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Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Rethinking the Mesoamerican Cosmos
Part I. Recognition: On Describing Others' Worlds
Chapter 1. Colliding Universes: A Reconsideration of the Structure of the Precolumbian Mesoamerican Cosmos
Chapter 2. Incorporating Mesoamerican Cosmology within a Global History of Religion: Some Considerations on the Work of Lorenzo Pignoria
Chapter 3. Dissecting the Sky: Discursive Translations in Mexican Colonial Cosmographies
Part II. Inventiveness: Reshaping Experience in Colonial Cosmologies
Chapter 4. The Colonial Encounter: Transformations of Indigenous Yucatec Conceptions of K'uh
Chapter 5. Zapotec Travels in Time and Space: The Correlation between the 260-Day Cycle and a Multilevel Cosmological Model
Chapter 6. A Cosmology of Water: The Universe According to the Ch'orti' Maya
Part III. Complexity: Breaking Paradigms on Cosmological Conceptions
Chapter 7. Distance and Power in Classic Maya Texts
Chapter 8. The Sky, the Night, and the Number Nine: Considerations of the Nahua Vision of the Universe
Chapter 9. Creating and Destroying the Upper Part of the Cosmos: A New Approach to the Study of Wixarika Cosmology
About the Authors
Index.
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Rethinking the Mesoamerican Cosmos
Part I. Recognition: On Describing Others' Worlds
Chapter 1. Colliding Universes: A Reconsideration of the Structure of the Precolumbian Mesoamerican Cosmos
Chapter 2. Incorporating Mesoamerican Cosmology within a Global History of Religion: Some Considerations on the Work of Lorenzo Pignoria
Chapter 3. Dissecting the Sky: Discursive Translations in Mexican Colonial Cosmographies
Part II. Inventiveness: Reshaping Experience in Colonial Cosmologies
Chapter 4. The Colonial Encounter: Transformations of Indigenous Yucatec Conceptions of K'uh
Chapter 5. Zapotec Travels in Time and Space: The Correlation between the 260-Day Cycle and a Multilevel Cosmological Model
Chapter 6. A Cosmology of Water: The Universe According to the Ch'orti' Maya
Part III. Complexity: Breaking Paradigms on Cosmological Conceptions
Chapter 7. Distance and Power in Classic Maya Texts
Chapter 8. The Sky, the Night, and the Number Nine: Considerations of the Nahua Vision of the Universe
Chapter 9. Creating and Destroying the Upper Part of the Cosmos: A New Approach to the Study of Wixarika Cosmology
About the Authors
Index.