Contents
List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Rethinking the Mesoamerican Cosmos by Ana Díaz
Part I. Recognition: On Describing Others’ Worlds
Chapter 1. Colliding Universes: A Reconsideration of the Structure of the Precolumbian Mesoamerican Cosmos by Jesper Nielsen and Toke Sellner Reunert
Chapter 2. Incorporating Mesoamerican Cosmology within a Global History of Religion: Some Considerations on the Work of Lorenzo Pignoria by Sergio Botta
Chapter 3. Dissecting the Sky: Discursive Translations in Mexican Colonial Cosmographies by Ana Díaz
Part II. Inventiveness: Reshaping Experience in Colonial Cosmologies
Chapter 4. The Colonial Encounter: Transformations of Indigenous Yucatec Conceptions of K’uh by Gabrielle Vail
Chapter 5. Zapotec Travels in Time and Space: The Correlation between the 260-Day Cycle and a Multilevel Cosmological Model by David Tavárez
Chapter 6. A Cosmology of Water: The Universe According to the Ch’orti’ Maya by Kerry Hull
Part III. Complexity: Breaking Paradigms on Cosmological Conceptions
Chapter 7. Distance and Power in Classic Maya Texts by Alexandre Tokovinine
Chapter 8. The Sky, the Night, and the Number Nine: Considerations of the Nahua Vision of the Universe by Katarzyna Mikulska
Chapter 9. Creating and Destroying the Upper Part of the Cosmos: A New Approach to the Study of Wixarika Cosmology by Johannes Neurath
About the Authors
Index