The Yucatec Maya have a special rituality. Ritual specialists are still in charge of religion: they perform agrarian rituals and healing ceremonies. The ritual of jeets’ lu’um is performed in a familyspace. Its aim is to clean a terrain from bad spirits and it is repeated every couple of years, or when it´s necessary. This article describes a jeets´ luúm performed by Dona Berta, living in Maní, Yucatan. It begins with the ethnographic description of the ritual in order to open the possibility to interpret a facet of this cosmology. Furthermore, it examines some of the problems of the investigation-practice, like the misunderstandings emerging from different interpretations given by different actors, as well as the three languages used in th...
El presente art\uedculo intenta estudiar el significado y la evoluci\uf3n de un ritual de iniciaci\u...
Abstract: This paper discusses ideas Yucatec Maya have about time in the mythological space, which b...
This work presents a review of ethnohistorical writings and ethnographic studies (some by the author...
Through the history of a Yucatecan Mayan shaman (h-men), this article analyzes the changes and conti...
The aim of this article is to analyze the funerary customs and ritual for the souls among contempora...
El presente artículo intenta estudiar el significado y la evolución de un ritual de iniciación infan...
This article presents elements of symbolic discourse that contribute to the maintenance of cultural ...
EstanciasUna de las manifestaciones más interesantes de la cultura maya es su religión; a través de ...
La Turbina corymbosa se distribuye por toda Mesoamérica, es ampliamente conocida en Yucatán y no tie...
La Turbina corymbosa se distribuye por toda Mesoamérica, es ampliamente conocida en Yucatán y no tie...
Uinicil te uinicil tun is a recurrent diphrasism of the Ritual of the Bacabs. Produced by ritual exp...
The present study is a contribution to the professional medicine as practiced by the Mayans in the Y...
A través de la historia de un chamán maya yucateco (h-men), este artículo analiza los cambios y las ...
This article focuses around Yucatec Maya cosmology, sacred landscape, ecology and religious continui...
The present study is a contribution to the professional medicine as practiced by the Mayans in the Y...
El presente art\uedculo intenta estudiar el significado y la evoluci\uf3n de un ritual de iniciaci\u...
Abstract: This paper discusses ideas Yucatec Maya have about time in the mythological space, which b...
This work presents a review of ethnohistorical writings and ethnographic studies (some by the author...
Through the history of a Yucatecan Mayan shaman (h-men), this article analyzes the changes and conti...
The aim of this article is to analyze the funerary customs and ritual for the souls among contempora...
El presente artículo intenta estudiar el significado y la evolución de un ritual de iniciación infan...
This article presents elements of symbolic discourse that contribute to the maintenance of cultural ...
EstanciasUna de las manifestaciones más interesantes de la cultura maya es su religión; a través de ...
La Turbina corymbosa se distribuye por toda Mesoamérica, es ampliamente conocida en Yucatán y no tie...
La Turbina corymbosa se distribuye por toda Mesoamérica, es ampliamente conocida en Yucatán y no tie...
Uinicil te uinicil tun is a recurrent diphrasism of the Ritual of the Bacabs. Produced by ritual exp...
The present study is a contribution to the professional medicine as practiced by the Mayans in the Y...
A través de la historia de un chamán maya yucateco (h-men), este artículo analiza los cambios y las ...
This article focuses around Yucatec Maya cosmology, sacred landscape, ecology and religious continui...
The present study is a contribution to the professional medicine as practiced by the Mayans in the Y...
El presente art\uedculo intenta estudiar el significado y la evoluci\uf3n de un ritual de iniciaci\u...
Abstract: This paper discusses ideas Yucatec Maya have about time in the mythological space, which b...
This work presents a review of ethnohistorical writings and ethnographic studies (some by the author...