The period extending from December 15 to the last day of the Fiesta of San Sebastián on January 25 is the richest segment of the annual ceremonial calendar of Zinacantan. The complicated rituals that characterize this period dramatize the e…The period extending from December 15 to the last day of the Fiesta of San Sebastián on January 25 is the richest segment of the annual ceremonial calendar of Zinacantan. The complicated rituals that characterize this period dramatize the e…
Mary (Virgin Mary)
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Mary appears only tangentially in these course readings as part of Catholic ceremonial calendars overlaid onto indigenous Zinacantan practices, specifically through the Festival of San Sebastián that structures their ritual year from December to January. The excerpt suggests the reading uses syncretic religious practice—where colonial Catholic saints merge with indigenous beliefs—as a case study in how ritual systems function as temporal and social organizing structures, potentially relevant to thinking about how AI systems similarly impose algorithmic calendars and ceremonial frames onto human life. This appears to be a passing reference rather than a central theoretical concern.
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