Detailed Information:
The publication includes the following papers:
Introduction: Shamanism, mesas & cosmologies in middle America / Douglas Sharon
Central and Northern Mexico : Curanderos' altar-mesas in Mexico City / Roberto Campos-Navarro
Sierra Otomi? religious symbolism : mankind responding to the natural world / James W. Dow
The annual "Royal Ceremony" on Mt. Tlaloc : mountain fertility ritualism in the late pre-Hispanic basin of Mexico / H.B. Nicholson
Sacred mountains and miniature worlds : altar design among the Nahua of Northern Veracruz, Mexico / Alan R. Sandstrom
The Wixa?rika (Huichol) Altar : place of the souls, stairway of the sun / Stacy B. Schaefer
Southern Mexico and Guatemala: In my hill, in my valley : the importance of place in ancient Maya ritual / James E. Brady
Manipulating the cosmos : shamanic tables among the highland Maya / Allen J. Christenson
Altars for ancestors : Maya altars for the days of the dead in Yucata?n / Judith Green
Wind, rain, and stone : ancient and contemporary Maya meteorology / Matthew G. Looper
Shamanic mesas of Yucata?n and their historical roots / Bruce Love
Shamanism, colonialism, and the mesa in Mesoamerican religious discourse / John Monaghan
