5th European Maya Conference

Maya Religious Practices: Processes of Change and Adaption

This conference was held from December 9 through 10, 2000 at the University of Bonn, Germany. The workshop took place December 6 to 8, 2000. The event was coordinated by the Institut für Altamerikanistik und Ethnologie.

You can download the complete program of the conference as well as the abstracts of the papers presented:

Program
Abstracts

The papers presented at the conference were the following:

Dmitrij Beliaev
Moscow
Wayib / Waya:b title in the classic Maya inscriptions
John F. Chuchiak IV
Worcester
The Images Speak: The Survival and Production of Hieroglyphic Codices and Their Use in Post-Conquest Maya Religion, 1580-1720
Markus Eberl
New Orleans
Daniel Graña-Behrens
Bonn
Change of names, change of titles: the accession ritual of Classic Maya rulers
Marianne Gabriel
Tübingen
Elements, action sequences and structure: a typology of agrarian ceremonies as carried out by the Maya peasants of Eastern Yucatán
Nikolai Grube
Austin & Bonn
A Maya Bacchus
Thomas H. Guderjan
Fort Worth
Recreating the cosmos: Early Classic dedicatory caches at Blue Creek
Stanley P. Guenter
Armando A. Hernandez

Victoria
Politics and patron gods
Kerry Hull
Michael D. Carrasco

Austin
Mak-“portal” rituals uncovered: an approach to interpreting symbolic architecture and the creation of sacred space among the Maya
Alfonso Lacadena
Madrid & Merida
On the reading of two Classic appellatives of the Rain God
Simon Martin
London
Memory of the Olmec: Continuity and Quotation in Mesoamerican Religion
Holley Moyes
Buffalo
Renewal at the center of the underworld: contextual analysis of artifacts from Actun Tunichil Muknal using GIS
Werner Nahm
Bonn
Astronomically conditioned rituals in Classic Maya culture
Ajb’ee Odilio Jiménez
Guatemala & Austin
The Politics of Maya Religion
Berthold Riese
Bonn
Maya-Religion: Ziele und Wege ihrer Erforschung
Vera Tiesler Blos
Mérida
Practicas funerarias y tratamientos mortuarios del cuerpo humano entre dirigentes mayas del Clásico: una mirada osteo-tafonómica
Alexander Voss
Bonn
Priests and consorts at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico: Specialization in Terminal Classic Maya Society
Søren Wichmann
Copenhagen
The names of some major Classic Maya Gods

 

Wayeb