The Spatio-Temporal Ritual Practice of the Fifty-Two-Year Calendar in Mesoamerica -.
Introducing a new theoretical category in religious studies, 'ritual practice of time,' this essay constitutes an analysis about rituals of the structure of space and time of the Aztec fifty-two-year calendar in Mesoamerica. Time and space, completed and exhausted at the termination of the fifty-two...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Religious History Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 446 - 459 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2010
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