BookSueño y éxtasis: visión chamánica de los nahuas y los mayas
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Title
- Sueño y éxtasis: visión chamánica de los nahuas y los mayas.
Published
- México: UNAM: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2012.
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- A study spanning the prehispanic past to today focused on dreams and ecstatic states, shamanism, use of psychotropics, and the more private experiences of the supernatural in indigenous Mesoamerica. Focuses specifically on the Maya and Nahuatl cultures, both in the archeological record and in the examination of ethnographic data, and explores both the considerable continuity and its creative evolution. The study is enhanced by direct interviews with living Maya and Nahuatl shamans. The book is beautifully laid out, with excellent photography and exhaustive treatment of the subject by one of Mexico's giants of Mesoamerican studies.
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Description
- 341 p.: bibl., ill. (some color).
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Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-337).
Portion of title
- Visión chamánica de los nahuas y los mayas
ISBN
- 9786070229312
- 6070229312
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HLAS contributor
- Duncan Earle