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Shamanic Journeys into the Otherworld of the Archaic Chichimec
Carolyn E. Boyd, 1996. Latin American Antiquity 7(2), pp. 152 to 164.
A spatial analysis of a recurring Lower Pecos motif, human figures passing through an opening in a serpentine arch, read by analogy with Mesoamerican and Gran Chichimeca ethnography as the shaman's journey into the spirit world. Argues the region's cosmologies were established in the Chihuahuan Desert at least 4,000 years ago.
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Boyd's earlier, shamanic reading of Lower Pecos imagery.
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Boyd, C. E. (1996). Shamanic Journeys into the Otherworld of the Archaic Chichimec. Latin American Antiquity 7(2), pp. 152 to 164. https://doi.org/10.2307/971615
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Boyd, Carolyn E.. “Shamanic Journeys into the Otherworld of the Archaic Chichimec.” Latin American Antiquity 7(2), pp. 152 to 164 (1996). https://doi.org/10.2307/971615.