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Symbolism and ritual practices related to hunting in Maya communities from central Quintana Roo, Mexico

BACKGROUND: Some Mayan peasant-hunters across the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico still carry out a hunting ritual –Loojil Ts’oon, Loj Ts’oon or Carbine Ceremony– in which they renew the divine permission for hunting in order to continue deserving the gift of prey after a period of hunt. Thus they are g...

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Autores principales: Santos-Fita, Dídac, Naranjo, Eduardo J., Estrada, Erin I.J., Mariaca, Ramón, Bello, Eduardo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4588688/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26420584
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13002-015-0055-x