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Summary
Table of Contents
A Note on Orthography | |
Acknowledgments | |
Celebrations for the Dead | |
Anthropology and Death Rituals | |
The Classic Maya Case | |
Methodological Concerns | |
Kingship and the Ancestors | |
Death and the Afterlife in the Lowlands | |
EarthMaize | |
MortalityWriting DeathT | |
he Self and the Soul | |
Breaths of Life and DeathWay | |
To the Afterlife | |
Celestial Bodies and Maize Gods | |
Royal Funerals | |
Waiting for Interment | |
GravemakersTombs as Underworld Surfaces | |
Tombs as CavesTombs as Houses | |
Timing and the Ritual Process | |
Embalming and Processing | |
Dressing and Bundling the Corpse | |
PaintingArranging the Body, Arranging the Furniture | |
Sealing the Tomb | |
Death and Landscape | |
K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo' | |
Lowland Founders and Local Variations | |
Cults of Personality | |
Bird Jaguar IV | |
Gods and Orchards at Palenque | |
Souls within Buildings | |
Ancestor Shrines | |
Entering the Tombs of the Classic Maya Kings | |
Patterns of Reentry at Piedras Negras | |
Fire in the Motmot Burial | |
Fire and History at Tonina | |
Family AffairsFalse Reentry | |
Painting, Drilling, and Bone Peeling | |
The Portable Dead | |
The Dead King and the Body Politic | |
Royal Funerals: Public or Private? | |
Bodies and Monuments | |
Corpses, Souls, and Mourners in Transition | |
Guide to Appendixes | |
Burial Structures and Contexts | |
Body Preparations and Funerary Activities | |
Grave Goods | |
Notes | |
References | |
Index | |
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