5 House, Floor, and Soil

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Tables xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. 1 Introducing Materialities and Temporalities of Ritual Practice 3
7. Part One Events and Temporalities
8. 2 From One Moment to the Next 25
9. 3 Over Time 49
10. 4 Voice Matters 70
11. Part Two Ritualizing Place
12. 5 House, Floor, and Soil 97
13. 6 The Role of Altars in Maya Public Rituals of the Early Classic Period 117
14. 7 Materiality and Agentivity of House Building Rituals 144
15. 8 Heaps of Prayers 162
16. Part Three The Materiality of Sound
17. 9 Communities of Engaged Performance 195
18. 10 Sensing Time through Materiality 215
19. 11 The Importance of the Tunk’ul in the Ritual and Ceremonial Song of the Carnival of Pomuch, Campeche 231
20. References 255
21. Index 301
22. Contributors 307