Isbn: 9780816528806 - the dialogue of earth and sky: dreams, souls, curing, and the modern aztec underworld (7 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. Num Pages: 179 pages, black & white line drawings, figures. BIC Classification: 1K; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 146 x 12. Weight in Grams: 281. . 2009. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorTimothy J. Knab is the author of A War of Witches: A Journey into the Underworld of the Contemporary Aztecs.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Mexico's Sierra Norte de Puebla, beliefs that were held before the coming of Europeans continue to guide the lives of modern Aztecs. Anthropologist Knab learned the prayers and techniques for curing maladies of the human soul, and from his long association with these people has constructed a thorough account of their ancient beliefs and practices. This book is an important record of a culture that has maintained a precolumbian cosmovision for nearly 500 years, revealing that this system is as resonant today with the ethos of Mesoamerican peoples as it was for their ancestors. Timothy Knab knows the place and people better than any non-Nahuat, and his profound knowledge shows. Jill Leslie McKeever Furst, author of The Natural History of the Soul in Ancient Mexico A unique, resourceful, and personal ethnographic case study which details a belief system that considers itself much older than the crossing of Western philosophy to the Americas. Latin American Research Review.…