3-0265 "TRACES, TIDEMARKS AND LEGACIES" OFCHANGE AND DIFFERENCE IN MAYA SPIRITUALITY

Thursday, November 17, 2011: 08:00-11:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Jonathan N Maupin (Arizona State University) and Miguel Astor-Aguilera PhD (Arizona State University)

Chairs: Quetzil E Castaneda (OSEA Open School of Ethnography and Anthropology and Indiana University)

Discussants: Edward F Fischer (Vanderbilt University) and Walter E Little (University at Albany)

08:00

2012 A Maya Odyssey: Indigenous Epistemologies and the Mexican Nation-State

Miguel Astor-Aguilera PhD (Arizona State University)

08:15

The World's Water: Seasons and Mayan Cosmology In Present-Day Chiapas

N. Louanna Furbee (University of Missouri, Centro de Documentación del Idioma Tojolabal, A.C. and CIESAS-Sureste)

08:30

El Cosmovision Maya: Reconnecting with the Ancestors

Jeanne Simonelli (Wake-Forest University)

08:45

Maya Shamanic Divination and Me; Confessions of a Reluctant Recruit

Duncan Earle (Marymount College)

09:00

Lacandon Maya Mythology and the “Myth” of Authenticity

Reece Jon McGee (Texas State University)

09:15

Discussant

Walter E Little (University at Albany)

09:30

Break

09:45

A K’iche’ Cosmogram: Processing Sacralized Space During Religious Revitalization

Garrett Cook (Baylor University) and Thomas A Offit (Baylor University)

10:00

An Interstitial Maya: The Life, Legacy and Heresies of Padre Tomás García

C James MacKenzie (University of Lethbridge)

10:15

Maya Spirituality After the Peace Accords: The Antinomies of Institutionalization

Chris Chiappari (St. Olaf College)

10:30

Traces of Change and (De)Constructing Difference In Maya Spirituality

Jonathan N Maupin (Arizona State University)

10:45

Mayan Calendrics In Movement In Guatemala

Morna Macleod (CIESAS DF)

11:00

Discussant

Edward F Fischer (Vanderbilt University)

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