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Rituals of Sacrifice

2003 Religion
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Release : 2003
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 172/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Rituals of Sacrifice by : Vincent James Stanzione

Download or read book Rituals of Sacrifice written by Vincent James Stanzione. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living and working among the Tz'utujil Maya people of Santiago Atitlán in highland Guatemala for some fifteen years, Vincent Stanzione has observed, photographed, and participated in their ritual and ceremonial life, which he describes with unique authority in this account of the continuities in Mayan culture from pre-Columbian times to the present. "This book represents both a confirmation and an innovation in the scholarship and field work about the religious imagination and rites of passage of Maya peoples. I know of no book that is as able to a) link the pre-Hispanic, colonial and contemporary religious practices of these peoples into a coherent narrative, b) combine anthropological/religious studies theory with linguistics and ongoing field work as creatively and c) illuminate the debate between models of 'syncretism' and 'transculturation' about a contemporary ritual cycle as Stanzione's beautifully illustrated work."--David Carrasco, Harvard University

New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society

2007-02-15 Social Science
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Release : 2007-02-15
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 715/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society by : Vera Tiesler

Download or read book New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society written by Vera Tiesler. This book was released on 2007-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Maya sacrifice and related posthumous body manipulation. The editors bring together an international group of contributors from the area studied: archaeologists as well as anthropologists, forensic anthropologists, art historians and bioarchaeologists. This interdisciplinary approach provides a comprehensive perspective on these sites as well as the material culture and biological evidence found there

Human Sacrifice

2015-01-20 True Crime
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Release : 2015-01-20
Genre : True Crime
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Book Rating : 985/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Human Sacrifice by : Jimmy Lee Shreeve

Download or read book Human Sacrifice written by Jimmy Lee Shreeve. This book was released on 2015-01-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the terrifying world of ritual sacrifice. Around the world, humans are being trafficked, kidnapped, sold, and enslaved for the specific purpose of sacrifice. Mass-scale migration has seen these gruesome techniques exported from the land of the Aztecs and finding their way to the United States, Britain, and many other locations worldwide. Voodoo priests in London have been linked to ritual murders, and not long ago a Palo Mayombe priestess’s New York City apartment yielded its grisly secrets. One New Jersey investigator says that sacrificial rites are not only going on today, but can be traced back ninety years in the States alone. Jimmy Lee Shreeve takes us on a nightmare journey, following the initial investigations of Scotland Yard into the murder of a five-year-old boy whose torso was found floating in the Thames in 2001, and traveling to Africa to unveil a grim trade of exporting humans for sacrifice. He uncovers the dark side of voodoo and muti magic, linked with a score of sacrifices and murders, and in Mexico, finds a devotee of Palo Mayombe responsible for torturing his victims and boiling them in a cauldron. Along the way, Shreeve brings his own brand of offbeat detective skills to the fore, providing startling conclusions to some of the world’s most horrific murders. Brutal and disturbing, Human Sacrifice takes us into the dark world of twenty-first-century ritual murder.

Ritual Sacrifice

2007-01-15 Body, Mind & Spirit
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Release : 2007-01-15
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
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Book Rating : 821/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Ritual Sacrifice by : Brenda Ralph Lewis

Download or read book Ritual Sacrifice written by Brenda Ralph Lewis. This book was released on 2007-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principle of sacrifice is as old as human life itself. This book provides an overview of sacrificial practices around the world since prehistoric times. It also examines the reasons behind these rituals, and in the case of human sacrifice an attempt is made to understand the mentality of the 'victims' who often willingly went to their deaths.

Sacred Killing

2012-09-17 History
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Release : 2012-09-17
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 769/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Sacred Killing by : Anne Porter

Download or read book Sacred Killing written by Anne Porter. This book was released on 2012-09-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is sacrifice? How can we identify it in the archaeological record? And what does it tell us about the societies that practice it? Sacred Killing: The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East investigates these and other questions through the evidence for human and animal sacrifice in the Near East from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic periods. Drawing on sociocultural anthropology and history in addition to archaeology, the book also includes evidence from ancient China and a riveting eyewitness account and analysis of sacrifice in contemporary India, which engage some of the key issues at stake. Sacred Killing vividly presents a variety of methods and theories in the study of one of the most profound and disturbing ritual activities humans have ever practiced.

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