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Economic history --- Mayas --- Antiquities --- Economic conditions --- Central America --- Mexico --- Antiquities. --- Economic conditions.

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This new edition of Living with the Ancestors contains an entirely new introduction that synthesizes scholarship on ancestralizing practices that has emerged since the 1995 publication of the first edition, which was heralded in Ethnohistory as 'a gem' by Robert M. Carmack. Ancestor veneration in the Maya region traditionally was associated with divine kingship and royal genealogies. In this study, the author challenges this assumption and presents a strong case for agrarian and Preclassic antecedents to the practice of remembering and celebrating forebears and curating their remains close to the dwelling. Integrating archaeological, epigraphic, ethnohistoric and ethnographic information, the author places ancestors within the larger social landscape of fields, orchards and gardens. The many registers of significance on which ancestralizing practices resonate are examined in detail - including spirituality, land tenure patterns, kin relations, and charters of rulership, to name just a few. Although case material is drawn from the Maya region, anyone interested in ancestor veneration will find intriguing material in this study.

Mayas --- Ancestor worship --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Latin America --- Ancestor cult --- Dead, Worship of the --- Worship, Ancestor --- Cults --- Dead --- Ancestral shrines --- Maya Indians --- Mayans --- Indians of Central America --- Indians of Mexico --- Kinship. --- Kings and rulers. --- Kinship --- Kings and rulers --- Genealogy --- Religious aspects --- Genealogy.

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Increasingly, economists have acknowledged that a major limitation to economic theory has been its failure to incorporate human values and beliefs as motivational factors. Conversely, the economic underpinnings of ritual practice are under-theorized and therefore not accessible to economists working on synthetic theories of human choice. This book addresses the problem by bringing together anthropologists with diverse backgrounds in the study of religion and economy to forge an analytical vocabulary that constitutes the building blocks of a theory of ritual economythe process of provisioning and consuming that materializes and substantiates worldview for managing meanings and shaping interpretations.The chapters in Part I explore how values and beliefs structure the dual processes of provisioning and consuming. Contributions to Part II consider how ritual and economic processes interlink to materialize and substantiate worldview. Chapters in Part III examine how people and institutions craft and assert worldview through ritual and economic action to manage meaning and shape interpretation. In Part IV, Jeremy Sabloff outlines the road ahead for developing the theory of ritual economy. By focusing on the intersection of cosmology and material transfers, the contributors push economic theory towards a more socially informed perspective.

Social & Cultural Anthropology --- Economic anthropology. --- Ritual. --- Cult --- Cultus --- Liturgies --- Public worship --- Symbolism --- Worship --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ritualism --- Commerce, Primitive --- Economics, Primitive --- Economics --- Ethnology --- Economic anthropology --- Ritual --- Commerce --- Economic aspects --- Cross-cultural studies --- Social aspects --- E-books --- Anthropologie économique --- Rituel --- Trade --- Business --- Transportation --- Traffic (Commerce) --- Merchants --- Business & Economics --- Social Science --- Economic theory & philosophy. --- Anthropology. --- General. --- Anthropology --- Economic aspects. --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Social aspects.

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Ancient peoples used their ancestors' perceived influence to deal with domestic disputes, advertise wealth, validate authority, and much more. Erica Hill and Jon Hageman's volume explores these dimensions of ancestor worship through the study of documentary evidence and material remains, including funerary structures, human remains, art and iconography, structured deposits, and architecture.

Archaeology --- Ethnoarchaeology. --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Archéologie --- Ethnoarchéologie --- Funérailles --- Social aspects. --- History. --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Rites et cérémonies --- Archaeology. --- Funeral rites and ceremonies. --- Archéologie --- Ethnoarchéologie --- Funérailles --- Rites et cérémonies