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Contents 8 List of Figures and Tables 12 A Note on Orthography 16 Acknowledgments 18 COLOR SECTION 178 One. Celebrations for the Dead 24 Anthropology and Death Rituals 26 The Classic Maya Case 30 Methodological Concerns 33 Kingship and the Ancestors 38 Two. Death and the Afterlife in the Lowlands 40 Earth 41 Maize 45 Mortality 47 Writing Death 48 The Self and the Soul 62 Breaths of Life and Death 65 WAY 67 To the Afterlife 71 Celestial Bodies and Maize Gods 75 Three. Royal Funerals 84 Waiting for Interment 84 Gravemakers 87 Tombs as Underworld Surfaces 91 Tombs as Caves 94 Tombs as Houses 95 Timing and the Ritual Process 95 Embalming and Processing 97 Dressing and Bundling the Corpse 99 Painting 104 Arranging the Body, Arranging the Furniture 106 Textiles and Other Layering 107 Wooden or Stone Platforms 108 Ceramics 108 Jades and Celts 110 Bloodletting Artifacts 111 Shells and Other Marine Artifacts 113 Bowl Coverings and Masks 115 Multiple Interments 116 Faunal Remains 119 Mirrors, Pyrite, and Hematite 119 Burial Sequences 120 Sealing the Tomb 124 Four. Death and Landscape 128 K’inich Yax K’uk’ Mo’ 130 Lowland Founders and Local Variations 135 Cults of Personality 140 Bird Jaguar

Author

James L. Fitzsimmons

Language

EN