The Maya World of Communicating Objects Benjamin Fine complex issues

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The Maya World of Communicating Objects Benjamin Fine complex issuesAlthough anthropologists have been observing and analyzing the religious practices of Mayan people for about a hundred years, this perceptive study suggests that anthropological interpretation of those practices and of Maya cosmology has never escaped the epistemological influence of Christianity. Whereas the objects used in Christian rituals are treated with reverence, such ritual objects as Mayan crosses can be used, reused, enshrined, communicated