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The Ritual Practice of Time

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Calendars of Mesoamerican civilisations are subjected to what is categorised as “ritual practices of time”. This book is a comparative explication of rituals of time of four calendars: the Long Cou...
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  • 02 December 2013
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Calendars of Mesoamerican civilisations are subjected to what is categorised as “ritual practices of time”. This book is a comparative explication of rituals of time of four calendars: the Long Count calendar, the 260-day calendar, the 365-day calendar and the 52-years calendar. Building upon a comparative analytical model, the book contributes new theoretical insights about ritual practices and temporal philosophies. This comprehensive investigation analyses how ritual practices are represented and conceptualised in intellectual systems and societies. The temporal ritual practices are systematically analysed in relation to calendar organisation and structure, arithmetic, cosmogony and chronometry, spatial-temporality (cosmology), natural world, eschatology, sociology, politics, and ontology. It is argued that the 260-day calendar has a particular symbolic importance in Mesoamerican temporal philosophies and practices.
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Price: $233.00
Pages: 420
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date: 02 December 2013
ISBN: 9789004252356
Format: Hardcover
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Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo, Doctor Artium (2007) in history of religions. Research Associate, Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project, Harvard University. Pharo has published extensively on the philosophies of Indigenous peoples of the Americas.