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Animals and Sacred Mountains: How Ritualized Performances Materialized State-Ideologies at Teotihuacan, Mexico Animals and Sacred Mountains: How Ritualized Performances Materialized State-Ideologies at Teotihuacan, Mexico The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Sugiyama, Nawa. 2014. Animals and Sacred Mountains: How Citation Ritualized Performances Materialized State-Ideologies at Teotihuacan, Mexico. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University. 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