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Imágenes de la mitología maya
A richly illustrated account of the art and religion of the Mayas, through detailed and complete interpretations of the Maya mythology and how it inspired its artistic creations. Michael D. Coe, emeritus professor of the Yale University comments that the book is "Rich in detail and hypothesis ... a "tour-de-force" in a well-founded and updated research and a testimony of the importance of the Museum Popol Vuh". The collection of Pre-Columbian pieces from the holdings of the museum is the staring point of the research that analyses the Maya myths on the origins of corn, the sun, the moon, the stars, war and their artistic manifestations. More than 30 years ago the pioneering research done by Michael Coe found suggesting parallels between the religious and mythological narrative of the Popol Vuh and the complex pictorial scenes in classic Maya art. Chinchilla's interpretations reinforces this conception through an updated comparative analysis between diverse narrations contained in the ancient book and some mural paintings, ceramic objects and other painted pieces
Jesuits at the Margins
In the past decades historians have interpreted early modern Christian missions not simply as an adjunct to Western imperialism, but a privileged field for cross-cultural encounters. Placing the Jesuit missions into a global phenomenon that emphasizes economic and cultural relations between Europe and the East, this book analyzes the possibilities and limitations of the religious conversion in the Micronesian islands of Guåhan (or Guam) and the Northern Marianas. Frontiers are not rigid spatial lines separating culturally different groups of people, but rather active agents in the transformation of cultures. By bringing this local dimension to the fore, the book adheres to a process of missionary “glocalization” which allowed Chamorros to enter the international community as members of Spain’s regional empire and the global communion of the Roman Catholic Church.
The Resurrection as a Messianic Anticipation
One of the temptations of the preacher is to make all conversations about grace too “nice”. But a true preacher of grace, like Carlos, knows that this does not help people grow in faith at all. In this book, Carlos continues his ambitious, multi-volume quest to make it possible to live the Christian faith authentically without either dumbing down our intelligence or forcing us into a Stockholm syndrome of speaking “well” while tamping down the realities through which we are really living. Hence, Carlos has put his nets deep into the life experiences of different groups of those who have lost, of those for whom the outrage of death is a constant reality, and who have had to learn a ne...
ESPAÑA Y LAS ISLAS MARIANAS. UNA HISTORIA COMPARTIDA
El primer contacto de los españoles con las Islas de las Velas Latinas o de los Ladrones se produjo en 1521 con la llegada a Guam de la escuadra de la Especiería dirigida por Fernando de Magallanes. Posteriormente, la conquista y evangelización de las Islas Marianas, rebautizadas así por el jesuita Diego Luis de San Vitores en honor de la reina regente Mariana de Austria, dio comienzo en 1668 y concluyó en 1899, siendo dicho archipiélago una de las últimas tierras del Pacífico en mantenerse bajo soberanía colonial española. Las Islas Marinas y España, separadas por más de trece mil kilómetros, permanecen unidas por más de quinientos años de una historia tan intensa como compleja. Este volumen contribuye a poner de manifiesto esos lazos en una publicación académica en la que especialistas de ambos territorios se han unido para presentar desde una perspectiva pluridisciplinar el rico legado histórico que atesora las Islas Marianas.
Mass Suicides on Saipan and Tinian, 1944
When the Americans invaded the Japanese-controlled islands of Saipan and Tinian in 1944, civilians and combatants committed mass suicide to avoid being captured. Though these mass suicides have been mentioned in documentary films, they have received scant scholarly attention. This book draws on United States National Archives documents and photographs, as well as veteran and survivor testimonies, to provide readers with a better understanding of what happened on the two islands and why. The author details the experiences of the people of the islands from prehistoric times to the present, with an emphasis on the Japanese, Okinawan, Korean, Chamorro and Carolinian civilians during invasion and occupation.
Gathering Souls: Jesuit Missions and Missionaries in Oceania (1668–1945)
This essay deals with the missionary work of the Society of Jesus in today’s Micronesia from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Although the Jesuit missionaries wanted to reach Japan and other Pacific islands, such as the Palau and Caroline archipelagos, the crown encouraged them to stay in the Marianas until 1769 (when the Society of Jesus was expelled from the Philippines) to evangelize the native Chamorros as well as to reinforce the Spanish presence on the fringes of the Pacific empire. In 1859, a group of Jesuit missionaries returned to the Philippines, but they never officially set foot on the Marianas during the nineteenth century. It was not until the twentieth century that they went back to Micronesia, taking charge of the mission on the Northern Marianas along with the Caroline and Marshall Islands, thus returning to one of the cradles of Jesuit martyrdom in Oceania.
Elogio de la antropología histórica
Elogio de la antropología histórica parte de una constatación primordial: que el estudio de la sociedad no se puede emprender sin considerar el peso de la historia y que las separaciones académicas entre disciplinas deberían poder ser superadas en beneficio del conocimiento. La antropología no se puede limitar a situar su objeto en su contexto inmediato, sino que su propio sujeto de estudio es la sociedad como un problema histórico. El libro muestra los complejos intentos de superar esta separación, presentando enfoques, metodologías y aplicaciones directas al estudio de las relaciones de poder y los sistemas de clasificación social, con una especial atención a la reconstrucción de las situaciones coloniales.
War Magic
This compelling volume explores how war magic and warrior religion unleash the power of the gods, demons, ghosts, and the dead. Documenting war magic and warrior religion as they are performed in diverse cultures and across historical time periods, this volume foregrounds embodiment, practice, and performance in anthropological approaches to magic, sorcery, shamanism, and religion. The authors go beyond what magic ‘represents’ to consider what magic does. From Chinese exorcists, Javanese spirit siblings, and black magic in Sumatra to Tamil Tiger suicide bombers, Chamorro spiritual re-enchantment, tantric Buddhist war magic, and Yanomami dark shamans, religion and magic are re-evaluated not just from the practitioner’s perspective but through the victim’s lived experience. These original investigations reveal a nuanced approach to understanding social action, innovation, and the revitalization of tradition in colonial and post-colonial societies undergoing rapid social transformation.
Historical Archaeology of Early Modern Colonialism in Asia-Pacific
"The essential source for scholarly reassessment of the Asia-Pacific region's diverse and significant archaeology and history."--James P. Delgado, coauthor of The Maritime Landscape of the Isthmus of Panama "Underpins a nuanced picture of Asia-Pacific that shows how the activities of the Chinese and Japanese in East Asia, the spread of Islam from South Asia, and the efforts of the Iberians and especially the Spanish from southern Europe ushered in a world of complex interaction and rapid and often profound change in local, regional, and wider cultural patterns."--Ian Lilley, editor of Archaeology of Oceania: Australia and the Pacific Islands The history of Asia-Pacific since 1500 has traditi...
Saints and Sanctity in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
A common objective of saint veneration in all three Abrahamic religions is the recovery and perpetuation of the collective memory of the saint. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all yield intriguing similarities and differences in their respective conceptions of sanctity. This edited collection explores the various literary and cultural productions associated with the cult of saints and pious figures, as well as the socio-historical contexts in which sainthood operates, in order to better understand the role of saints in monotheistic religions. Using comparative religious and anthropological approaches, an international panel of contributors guides the reader through three main concerns. They...
