Ruins, Caves, Gods, and Incense Burners: Northern Lacandon Maya Myths and Rituals

by Didier Boremanse

The Lacandon Maya are a small-scale forest society currently on the brink of extinction. Small groups of Northern Lacandon escaped evangelization by dispersing into the jungle, moving from the Guatemalan Pet n to Chiapas in southern Mexico during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Several groups maintained their traditional religion until the late twentieth century.

Their cult of incense burners, based on the veneration...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1607817322
• ISBN13: 9781607817321
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: University of Utah Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 10.1"