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8 - Maya Sacred Play: The View from El Perú-Waka’

from Part II - Playing with Belief and Performance in Ancient Societies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2017

By
David Freidel  and
Michelle Rich
Edited by
Colin Renfrew ,
Iain Morley  and
Michael Boyd
Colin Renfrew
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Iain Morley
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Michael Boyd
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Ritual, Play and Belief, in Evolution and Early Human Societies , pp. 101 - 115
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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