Pilgrimage and living mountains among the contemporary highland Maya

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Pilgrimage and living mountains among the contemporary highland Maya

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Pilgrimages have played an important role in Maya culture since pre-Columbian times. Even today, sacred journeys to significant mountains and caves are made by the traditionalists of Akateko and Chuj communities. In this paper, I describe a pilgrimage and sacrificial ritual in connection with mountain veneration during the Year Bearer ceremony. Anthropologists, divided into culturalists and historicists, tend to interpret the "masters" of the mountains as expressions of essential cultural continuity orethnic power relationships, respectively. In order to span the theoretical division, I turn to phenomenal and existential aspects of the subject. In the eyes of the highland Maya, mountains are not just mediators between Earth and Sky, the representations of a bipartite concept of the world. Through pilgrimage and sacrifice, humans communicate and interact with non-human, yet autonomous, living and volitional beings. I argue that rather than a descent to the underworld or ascent to the h

Název v anglickém jazyce

Pilgrimage and living mountains among the contemporary highland Maya

Popis výsledku anglicky

Pilgrimages have played an important role in Maya culture since pre-Columbian times. Even today, sacred journeys to significant mountains and caves are made by the traditionalists of Akateko and Chuj communities. In this paper, I describe a pilgrimage and sacrificial ritual in connection with mountain veneration during the Year Bearer ceremony. Anthropologists, divided into culturalists and historicists, tend to interpret the "masters" of the mountains as expressions of essential cultural continuity orethnic power relationships, respectively. In order to span the theoretical division, I turn to phenomenal and existential aspects of the subject. In the eyes of the highland Maya, mountains are not just mediators between Earth and Sky, the representations of a bipartite concept of the world. Through pilgrimage and sacrifice, humans communicate and interact with non-human, yet autonomous, living and volitional beings. I argue that rather than a descent to the underworld or ascent to the h

Druh

O - Ostatní výsledky

CEP obor

AC - Archeologie, antropologie, etnologie

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2014

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů