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Summary: Good insight into Mesoamerican religions
Review: I was delighted to find this book, as the author does a marvelous job of explaining the religons of complex cultures such as the Olmecs, Toltecs, Aztecs and Mayans in a way that is thoughtful and easy to read. Unlike several other similar texts, this is not boring. Nor do you need to be an anthropologist to enjoy or understand this text. It opens up fascinating worldviews to the average reader. I highly recommend it. Good chronology included.
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Summary: A basic set of tools for understanding all systems...
Review: In terms of understanding the way the human creature perceives the world around it, Carrasco offers a set of tools from which to build a nearly universal understanding of far more than just Mesoamerican belief systems. The need found in one religious system is universal to others because they serve the same basic human need. World-centering, world-renewing and world-making are all done in every system of religious or philosphical belief.Carrasco's study of Mesoamerican belief is detailed and fascinating. It can lead one into a much larger view of the world.
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Summary: A basic set of tools for understanding all systems...
Review: In terms of understanding the way the human creature perceives the world around it, Carrasco offers a set of tools from which to build a nearly universal understanding of far more than just Mesoamerican belief systems. The need found in one religious system is universal to others because they serve the same basic human need. World-centering, world-renewing and world-making are all done in every system of religious or philosphical belief. Carrasco's study of Mesoamerican belief is detailed and fascinating. It can lead one into a much larger view of the world.
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Summary: Great.
Review: The application of worldmaking, worldcentering and worldrenewal as a way to understand the role of activities within any cultural system is a brilliant idea, although not applied cross-culturally in Mr. Carrasco's book. I have used these concepts to explore other cultures and ideas and have found it quite interesting. It is a way of understanding something on unique grounds. Every culture, every human being, I think, employs this type of process in his/her view of things. The book, not only for its content, but also the way it introduces and organizes ideas is really worth merit and worth reading.
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Summary: More spaceball cosmovision
Review: The author is a spacey new-age historian whose main concept is "cosmovision". This is not rigorous stuff, but is spacey speculation.
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Summary: More spaceball cosmovision
Review: The author is a spacey new-age historian whose main concept is "cosmovision". This is not rigorous stuff, but is spacey speculation.
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