...The focus of this final chapter is understanding the meaning behind the plans of Maya cities in the eastern lowlands. In previous studies meaning is most often equated with Amos Rapoport’s high-level meaning, which communicates information about worldview and cosmology. This chapter takes a more...

... culture occupational fatalities worldview On a spring day in 1865, the ship Andacollo weighed anchor and departed Callao, Peru, bound home for Liverpool. The vessel was under the command of Captain Wilfred Gilberry, who had spent a large part of his life at sea. Though still relatively...

...To ground the study of magic and archaeology in seventeenth-century New England within the broader field of anthropological magical belief scholarship, this chapter provides a general discussion of magic with definitions of sympathetic magic, ritual, magical worldview, and apotropaism. Discussion...

... retained Yoruban worldview. But although Santería was able to break through social, class, and racial boundaries, by the 1950s the followers of Santería were only a small minority in Cuba. However, the religion still exists, and has even demonstrated a flexibility to adjust to different ecosystems...

...The Great White Bear in the Central Algonquian philosophical religious belief system possessed the power to maintain or end life. In the Menominee Nation worldview, the Great White Bear with its long, burnished copper tail was the most powerful Lower World mythical being in the cosmos that needed...

... and look for meaning, construed broadly here to encompass all the things that contributed to the final design of a place including mundane things like where water drains to esoteric things like worldview and cosmology. What the data in this book show are remarkable and nuanced variations in architectural...

...This chapter examines worldview and dualism among Ch'orti' Maya. It discusses data from Ch'orti' Maya ritual text and argues for an underlying dual-gendered ideology that pervades both the sacred and the secular realms. It investigates the notions of dual gender in relation not only...

..., in this case, includes all the factors–symbolic, historical, functional, etc.–that contributed to the final plan of the city, not just high-level meaning such as worldview and cosmology. Maya cities, for the purposes of this study, are regal-ritual centers that affected their hinterlands and were homes...

... and led to the beginning of evil on earth. It is also very important to understand the Yoruban worldview and the worldview of followers of Santería. Good and evil in Christianity Patakíes of Agayú Worldview changing intra psychic processes related to Santería pataki evil Yoruban worldview horror...

...This chapter briefly summarizes the findings of the two volumes of this research. Through all the phases of the 500 year Catholic-Maya interaction, the traditional Maya worldview has persisted in one form or another. The years of counterinsurgency marked by ethnic hatred has strengthened Maya...

...This chapter develops a Weberian construct outlining a basic logic that underlies the traditional Maya worldview, both its pre- and post-Columbian forms. Maya metaphysics is a pantheistic theology based on the principle of emanation that differs from the principle of creation found in transcendent...

...The book describes the interaction in Maya communities between Maya and Catholic theological worldviews from the middle to the end of the twentieth century. Both worldviews were experiencing periods of crisis. The Maya crisis was rooted in loss of land and extreme poverty. This brought...

... worldview On a pleasant afternoon in March 1878, a small boy walked along the cliffs of the Isle of Wight. Though the day was cool, early spring sunlight brought with it the promise of warmer days to come. The boy loved walking about the island, surrounded by verdant greens on one side and the slate-gray...

... were undermined, and of the validity of their worldview from which they drew life's meaning, morality and their self-identity. It was a crisis of an entire culture. Communites sought divergent solutions. Some opted for ritual intensification as dictated by the traditional worldview. Others adopted...

...Following the liberal suppressions, the initial aim of the Church's renewed effort was to form orthodox Catholic communities based on the theological worldview of the sixteenth-century Council of Trent that set the Catholic agenda for the next four hundred years. Some knowledge of the historical...

...This chapter traces the evolution of the worldviews of two members of the Maryknoll congregation in Guatemala, a priest, Thomas Melville, and a nun, Marian Peter. They began as ardent Tridentine Catholics. The nun initiated catechetical and later consciousness-raising programs about the Maya crisis...

..., such as the occasional human sacrifices. The chapter ends with a discussion on the Yoruban ethos and worldview, which were no longer in accord with dramatically altered socioenvironmental conditions in a new setting. Africa history of Gibbs James L July Robert W Nigeria history of River systems West Africa Aveiro...

...This chapter establishes the cultural context for this work by first examining the worldview and magical mindset shared by seventeenth-century Christians, explaining how a magical understanding of both the universe and the workings of a Christian deity were culturally logical to New Englanders...

...This chapter argues for the critical necessity of cosmology, ideology, ethos, and worldview as delineating real differences within the cultural tradition of a people. At the general level, then, the term cultural tradition...

...This chapter introduces the study of Mississippian communities by reviewing archaeological evidence for Mississippi period sites; social organization and worldview among Mississippian people and their descendants; and theoretical approaches to understanding the nature of human action...