Through a series of photos, John J. McGraw presents some of the basic forms of ritual practice among contemporary Mayas in the western highlands of Guatemala.
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David Morgan, Divination, Economy of Belief, Embodiment, Emplacement, Emplotment, Faces, Lived Religion, Material Religion, Materiality, Materiality and Communication, Memorialization, Places
David Morgan of Duke University comments on the entanglement of body, material culture, and lived religion in his article, "The Material Culture of Lived Religions." Of particular use, he offers a set of operational definitions regarding material culture, embodiment, lived religion, aesthetics, and the material economy of the sacred.