Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
1. Introducing Materialities and Temporalities of Ritual Practice-Rosemary A. Joyce and Lisa M. Johnson
Part One: Events and Temporalities
2. From One Moment to the Next: Multiple Temporalities in Classic Maya Ritualized “Events”-Lisa M. Johnson
3. Over Time: From Compostura in the Present to Lenca Rituals of the Prehispanic Period-Rosemary A. Joyce and Russell N. Sheptak
4. Voice Matters: Vocal Creation and Manipulation of Ritual Temporalities-Valentina Vapnarsky
Part Two: Ritualizing Place
5. House, Floor, and Soil: Fixing Residence-M. Charlotte Arnauld
6. The Role of Altars in Maya Public Rituals of the Classic Period: Analysis and Contexts of the Associated Deposits-Philippe Nondédéo, Johann Begel, Julien Hiquet, Julie Patrois, Isaac Barrientos, and M. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual
7. Materiality and Agentivity of House Building Rituals: An Ethno-Archaeological Approach-Johann Begel, Marie Chosson, and Cédric Becquey
8. Heaps of Prayers: The Materiality of Catholic Prayers, Their Temporal Dimension and Ritual Effectiveness within Nahua Ritual Discourse-Alessandro Lupo
Part Three: The Materiality of Sound
9. Communities of Engaged Performance: Investigating the Materiality of Sound in Precolumbian Greater Nicoya-Katrina Casey Kosyk
10. Sensing Time through Materiality: Two Prehispanic Sound-Related Artifacts on Exhibit at the Museo Delle Civiltà, Rome-Valeria Bellomia
11. The Importance of the Tunk’ul in the Ritual and Ceremonial Song of the Carnival of Pomuch, Campeche: An Interdisciplinary Study-Francisca Zalaquett Rock, Olivier Le Guen, Juan Carillo González, and Giovani Balam Caamal
References
Index
List of Contributors