Here is our announcement for the 5th European Maya Conference at
the University of Bonn from December 6 - 10, 2000.
Please visit our home pages:
http://www.voelk.uni-bonn.de/Maya_Religion.htm
http://www.voelk.uni-bonn.de/seite11.htm
http://www.voelk.uni-bonn.de/registra.htm
http://www.voelk.uni-bonn.de/accomoda.htm
They included registration forms (still to be put on our homepage as a
PDF file). For more information and registration please contact Christian
Prager at mayarelig...@hotmail.com
THE FIFTH EUROPEAN MAYA CONFERENCE will be held from December 9
through 10, 2000 at the University of Bonn, Germany. The conference at Bonn
continues a series of internationally acknowledged conferences on the Mayan
culture. As one of the foremost cultures in the present-day Mexico and Central
America, the Maya rank among the most fascinating people and are especially
known for the achievements of the Classic culture (among them the only full
writing system in the pre-Columbian Americas) that flourished in the first
millennium A.D. [ed note: unfortunately the Maya were not the first
Mesoamerican culture to develop a writing system as has been well
documented - jc]
The conference focuses on Maya religious practices from past to present
and seeks to unravel the underlying processes of change and adaption. The
diachronic view of the Maya religious practices fosters an interdisciplinary
approach that includes all disciplines of Maya studies from archaeology
through ethnology. The various disciplines involved may also allow for
discussing religious practices as manifestations of a religious system.
Research and debate are still ongoing as to whether diverse religious
concepts (e.g. cosmology, the alter ego concept) can be integrated into
a Maya theology.
The speakers include eminent scholars: Prof. Dr. Nikolai Grube (University
of Texas at Austin), Prof. Dr. Berthold Riese (Bonn University, Germany),
Dr. David Stuart (Maya Corpus Project, Harvard University, Cambridge) and
Prof. Dr. Vera Tiesler-Blos (Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, México).
A workshop on Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions precedes the conference from
December 6 through 8. The workshop is open to beginners and advanced
students and will be directed by experienced tutors (a reader with study
material
will be available).
Christian Prager
Institut für Altamerikanistik und Ethnologie
Universitaet Bonn
Roemerstr. 164
53117 Bonn (Germany)
Tel.: 0049-228-734412
Fax: 0049-228-734385
mayarelig...@hotmail.com
Organizer commitee: Nikolai Grube, Christian Prager, Markus Eberl,
Elisabeth Wagner, Frauke Sachse, Alexander Voss and Pierre Robert Colas.
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Peliminary List of Speakers:
Dmitrij Beliaev
Wayib / Waya:b title in the classic Maya inscriptions
Markus Eberl & Daniel Graña-Behrens
Change of names, change of titles: the accession ritual of Classic Maya
rulers
Marianne Gabriel
Elements, action sequences and structure: a typology of agrarian
ceremonies as carried out by the Maya peasants of Eastern Yucatán
Nikolai Grube
Title to be announced
Thomas H. Guderjan
Recreating the cosmos: Early Classic dedicatory caches at Blue Creek
Stanley Paul Guenter & Armando Anaya Hernandez
Politics and patron gods
Kerry Hull & Michael D. Carrasco
Mak-„portal“ rituals uncovered: an approach to interpreting
symbolic architecture and the creation of sacred space among the Maya
Alfonso Lacadena
On the reading of two Classic appellatives of the Rain God
Holley Moyes
Renewal at the center of the underworld: contextual analysis of artifacts
from Actun Tunichil Muknal using GIS
Werner Nahm
Title to be announced
Berthold Riese
Title to be announced
David S. Stuart
Title to be annonced
Vera Tiesler-Blos
Practicas funerarias y tratamiento mostuarias del cuerpo humano entre
dirigentes Mayas del Clásico: una mirada osteo-tafonómica
Alexander Voss
Priests and consorts at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico: Specialization in
Terminal Classic Maya Society
Søren Wichmann
The names of some major Classic Maya Gods
