Women's Ritual in Formative Oaxaca: Figure-making, Divination, Death and the Ancestors by Joyce Marcus

Women's Ritual in Formative Oaxaca: Figure-making, Divination, Death and the Ancestors

Joyce Marcus

333 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

informative reflective slow-paced
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This book covers divination, figurine-making, and women's ritual treatment of ancestors in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, from 1600 to 500 B.C. Women's ritual was distinguished from men's through excavation strategy: houses, dooryards, activity are...

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