Timothy W Knowlton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 112150 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Timothy W Knowlton |
| PRENOMES | Timothy W |
| SOBRENOME | Knowlton |
| ASSINATURA | KNOWLTON T W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Berry College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1463-6977 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Explaining Mythical Composite Monsters in a Global Cross-Cultural Sample
Composite beings (“monsters”) are those mythical creatures composed of a mix of different anatomical forms. There are several scholarly claims for why these appear in the imagery and lore of many societies, including claims that they are found near-universally as well as those arguments that they co-occur with particular sociocultural arrangements. In order to evaluate these claims, we identify the presence of composite monsters cross-culturally …
Theology and Economy in Thepopol Wujandtheologia Indorum
Drawing on modern ethnography, scholars often characterize ancient Maya religion as “covenants” involving human beings generating merit through ritual activity in order to repay a primordial debt to the gods. However, models based on modern ethnography alone would not allow us to recognize the impact on Maya religions of those Christian discourses of debt and merit that accompanied sixteenth-century colonization. This article attempts to historic…
Perinatal Rites in theRitual of the Bacabs, a Colonial Maya Manuscript
Pregnancy and childbirth were among indigenous Maya women's most dangerous life experiences, with very high maternal and perinatal death rates from pre-Hispanic times through the first decades of the twentieth century. This article contributes to the knowledge of colonial Yucatec Maya women through the interpretation of documentary evidence of three indigenous rites meant to facilitate women's perinatal health and successful childbirth. This evid…
Flame, icons and healing
The Ritual of the Bacabs is an eighteenth-century Yucatec Maya language manuscript containing over forty healing chants and numerous remedies for a variety of illnesses. In this paper, I reconstruct features of colonial Maya ontology through an analysis of those healing chants accompanying treatments involving fire and heat. In particular, I demonstrate that the manipulation of fire and heat in autochthonous healing was a means of managing kinam,…
Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya
In Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya, Andrew K. Scherer addresses features of ancient Maya death and burial that he asserts have not been generally acknowledged. Specifically, Scherer argues that distinct localized traditions regarding the proper treatment of the dead developed during the Classic period (ca. AD 250–900/1100). This diversity of mortuary practices prevailed despite the presence of some widely shared beliefs about death and bu…
Nqab’än Repetir las Mismas Palabras
Filth and Healing in Yucatan
This paper analyzes the roles and attributes of the Maya goddess Ix Hun Ahau, the female manifestation of Hun Ahau that appears in theRitual of the Bacabs. This Colonial Yucatec text is our earliest surviving source for how Maya cosmology provided a framework for healing practices. Although the extant manuscript dates to the late eighteenth century, it is the culmination of centuries of interethnic interaction, including innovations emerging from…
Literacy and Healing
The manuscript known as the Ritual of the Bacabs is a rare corpus of Yucatec Maya-language incantations and medical remedies put to paper in the eighteenth century. When a given instance of discourse such as a healing incantation is put into writing, it is rendered as a detachable unit of text that can be lifted out of its interactional setting so that it may be successfully recontextualized in future performances. Deciding what signs are essenti…
Inscribing the Miraculous Place
The analysis of ritual in linguistic anthropology has witnessed significant advances in recent years, particularly those approaches which theorize ritual as fundamentally semiotic and ritual actions being composed of different kinds of sign relations across multiple modalities.Building onSilverstein's (2009) analysis of the interdiscursive chains of signification linking private and public rituals, this article examines how writing in the form of…
Ethnicity, God Concepts, and the Indigenization of a Guatemalan Popular Saint
How do we understand debates regarding the ethnicity of supernatural agents in societies that have recently given rise to ethnic social movements? This article addresses this question through ethnographic research among indigenous and non-indigenous devotees of the popular saint San Simón in Guatemala's central highlands. Drawing on Bourdieu's concept of the religious field and Taussig's history of mimesis and alterity, I note the ethnicity of sa…
Hybrid Cosmologies in Mesoamerica
During his visit to Nojpeten in 1696, Fray Andrés de Avendaño reported observing the Itzá Maya worshipping a stone column called yax cheel cab (the first tree of the world). Though claiming to recognize the yax cheel cab from depictions in pre-Hispanic Maya codices, Avendaño notes that the Itzá "want it to be understood that they give homage to it because this is the tree of whose fruit our first father Adam ate." As no known pre-Hispanic source …
Literacy and Healing
The manuscript known as the Ritual of the Bacabs is a rare corpus of Yucatec Maya-language incantations and medical remedies put to paper in the eighteenth century. When a given instance of discourse such as a healing incantation is put into writing, it is rendered as a detachable unit of text that can be lifted out of its interactional setting so that it may be successfully recontextualized in future performances. Deciding what signs are essenti…
Inscribing the Miraculous Place
The analysis of ritual in linguistic anthropology has witnessed significant advances in recent years, particularly those approaches which theorize ritual as fundamentally semiotic and ritual actions being composed of different kinds of sign relations across multiple modalities.Building onSilverstein's (2009) analysis of the interdiscursive chains of signification linking private and public rituals, this article examines how writing in the form of…
Hybrid Cosmologies in Mesoamerica
During his visit to Nojpeten in 1696, Fray Andrés de Avendaño reported observing the Itzá Maya worshipping a stone column called yax cheel cab (the first tree of the world). Though claiming to recognize the yax cheel cab from depictions in pre-Hispanic Maya codices, Avendaño notes that the Itzá "want it to be understood that they give homage to it because this is the tree of whose fruit our first father Adam ate." As no known pre-Hispanic source …
Filth and Healing in Yucatan
This paper analyzes the roles and attributes of the Maya goddess Ix Hun Ahau, the female manifestation of Hun Ahau that appears in theRitual of the Bacabs. This Colonial Yucatec text is our earliest surviving source for how Maya cosmology provided a framework for healing practices. Although the extant manuscript dates to the late eighteenth century, it is the culmination of centuries of interethnic interaction, including innovations emerging from…
Ethnicity, God Concepts, and the Indigenization of a Guatemalan Popular Saint
How do we understand debates regarding the ethnicity of supernatural agents in societies that have recently given rise to ethnic social movements? This article addresses this question through ethnographic research among indigenous and non-indigenous devotees of the popular saint San Simón in Guatemala's central highlands. Drawing on Bourdieu's concept of the religious field and Taussig's history of mimesis and alterity, I note the ethnicity of sa…
Explaining Mythical Composite Monsters in a Global Cross-Cultural Sample
Composite beings (“monsters”) are those mythical creatures composed of a mix of different anatomical forms. There are several scholarly claims for why these appear in the imagery and lore of many societies, including claims that they are found near-universally as well as those arguments that they co-occur with particular sociocultural arrangements. In order to evaluate these claims, we identify the presence of composite monsters cross-culturally …
Perinatal Rites in theRitual of the Bacabs, a Colonial Maya Manuscript
Pregnancy and childbirth were among indigenous Maya women's most dangerous life experiences, with very high maternal and perinatal death rates from pre-Hispanic times through the first decades of the twentieth century. This article contributes to the knowledge of colonial Yucatec Maya women through the interpretation of documentary evidence of three indigenous rites meant to facilitate women's perinatal health and successful childbirth. This evid…
Flame, icons and healing
The Ritual of the Bacabs is an eighteenth-century Yucatec Maya language manuscript containing over forty healing chants and numerous remedies for a variety of illnesses. In this paper, I reconstruct features of colonial Maya ontology through an analysis of those healing chants accompanying treatments involving fire and heat. In particular, I demonstrate that the manipulation of fire and heat in autochthonous healing was a means of managing kinam,…
Nqab’än Repetir las Mismas Palabras
Hybrid Cosmologies in Mesoamerica
During his visit to Nojpeten in 1696, Fray Andrés de Avendaño reported observing the Itzá Maya worshipping a stone column called yax cheel cab (the first tree of the world). Though claiming to recognize the yax cheel cab from depictions in pre-Hispanic Maya codices, Avendaño notes that the Itzá "want it to be understood that they give homage to it because this is the tree of whose fruit our first father Adam ate." As no known pre-Hispanic source …
Ethnicity, God Concepts, and the Indigenization of a Guatemalan Popular Saint
How do we understand debates regarding the ethnicity of supernatural agents in societies that have recently given rise to ethnic social movements? This article addresses this question through ethnographic research among indigenous and non-indigenous devotees of the popular saint San Simón in Guatemala's central highlands. Drawing on Bourdieu's concept of the religious field and Taussig's history of mimesis and alterity, I note the ethnicity of sa…
Literacy and Healing
The manuscript known as the Ritual of the Bacabs is a rare corpus of Yucatec Maya-language incantations and medical remedies put to paper in the eighteenth century. When a given instance of discourse such as a healing incantation is put into writing, it is rendered as a detachable unit of text that can be lifted out of its interactional setting so that it may be successfully recontextualized in future performances. Deciding what signs are essenti…
Inscribing the Miraculous Place
The analysis of ritual in linguistic anthropology has witnessed significant advances in recent years, particularly those approaches which theorize ritual as fundamentally semiotic and ritual actions being composed of different kinds of sign relations across multiple modalities.Building onSilverstein's (2009) analysis of the interdiscursive chains of signification linking private and public rituals, this article examines how writing in the form of…
Nqab’än Repetir las Mismas Palabras
Filth and Healing in Yucatan
This paper analyzes the roles and attributes of the Maya goddess Ix Hun Ahau, the female manifestation of Hun Ahau that appears in theRitual of the Bacabs. This Colonial Yucatec text is our earliest surviving source for how Maya cosmology provided a framework for healing practices. Although the extant manuscript dates to the late eighteenth century, it is the culmination of centuries of interethnic interaction, including innovations emerging from…
Flame, icons and healing
The Ritual of the Bacabs is an eighteenth-century Yucatec Maya language manuscript containing over forty healing chants and numerous remedies for a variety of illnesses. In this paper, I reconstruct features of colonial Maya ontology through an analysis of those healing chants accompanying treatments involving fire and heat. In particular, I demonstrate that the manipulation of fire and heat in autochthonous healing was a means of managing kinam,…
Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya
In Mortuary Landscapes of the Classic Maya, Andrew K. Scherer addresses features of ancient Maya death and burial that he asserts have not been generally acknowledged. Specifically, Scherer argues that distinct localized traditions regarding the proper treatment of the dead developed during the Classic period (ca. AD 250–900/1100). This diversity of mortuary practices prevailed despite the presence of some widely shared beliefs about death and bu…
Perinatal Rites in theRitual of the Bacabs, a Colonial Maya Manuscript
Pregnancy and childbirth were among indigenous Maya women's most dangerous life experiences, with very high maternal and perinatal death rates from pre-Hispanic times through the first decades of the twentieth century. This article contributes to the knowledge of colonial Yucatec Maya women through the interpretation of documentary evidence of three indigenous rites meant to facilitate women's perinatal health and successful childbirth. This evid…
Explaining Mythical Composite Monsters in a Global Cross-Cultural Sample
Composite beings (“monsters”) are those mythical creatures composed of a mix of different anatomical forms. There are several scholarly claims for why these appear in the imagery and lore of many societies, including claims that they are found near-universally as well as those arguments that they co-occur with particular sociocultural arrangements. In order to evaluate these claims, we identify the presence of composite monsters cross-culturally …
Theology and Economy in Thepopol Wujandtheologia Indorum
Drawing on modern ethnography, scholars often characterize ancient Maya religion as “covenants” involving human beings generating merit through ritual activity in order to repay a primordial debt to the gods. However, models based on modern ethnography alone would not allow us to recognize the impact on Maya religions of those Christian discourses of debt and merit that accompanied sixteenth-century colonization. This article attempts to historic…
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