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Author:   Pedro Pitarch ,  Roy Wagner
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.624kg
ISBN:  

9780292723313

ISBN 10:   0292723318
Pages:   283
Publication Date:   01 November 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Replaced By:   9780292737471
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

* Foreword by Roy Wagner * Preface *1. Introduction * What Are the Souls? * The Self as European * Conversations about Souls * The Town of Cancuc *2. The Ethnography of Souls * The Bird of Our Heart * The ch'ulel * The ch'ulel in ch'iibal Mountain * The ch'ulel inside the Heart * Dreams * Death and the ch'ulel * The lab * Lab That Are Animals * Water lab * Meteor lab * The Illness-Giver lab * The lab as Personal Power * Complete Human Beings * The Internal lab * The Transference of lab * Further Interpretations *3. Souls and Signs * Signs in Gestures * Signs in Dreams * Comparing, Harmonizing like Voices * The Person * Words * Fostering Knowledge *4. The European Within * The Magic Mountain * A Perpetual Fiesta * Castilian Features in the lab * The Ethnic Contrast between Heart and Head * Loss of the Senses and Exposing the Heart *5. Animism as History * Birds of the Heart, Livestock, Metal Tools * Priests * Scribes and Writing * Cattle Ranchers * Christian Music * The lab Mothers-Fathers and Coffee Cultivation * Soul History and the Body *6. Narrative, Ritual, Silence * The Past in Narrative * Exceptions to Neutrality * Ritual * Christian Rituals, Indian Simulation * Difficulties of Dialogue with the Castilians * Crosses * New Religious Identifications *7. The Mirror in the Saints * The Body of the Saints * Saints in Narrative * Images of Origins in the Mirror *8. A Case of Healing: Text and Ritual * The Ceremony * The Text * Commentary *9. Conclusion: The Fold * Person, History, and Memory * The Counterpoint between the Indigenous and the European * The Redoubling of the Other * Appendix: An Outline of Tzeltal Souls * Notes * Bibliography * Index

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"""Cancuc, the locus of this book, has proved a difficult community to study, but Pedro Pitarch has succeeded where others before him have failed. This volume, a revised version of the book first published in Spanish in 1996, benefits from the author's continuing involvement with that region of Mexico...This is an excellent addition to the literature on the area."" Journal of the Latin American Studies"

Cancuc, the locus of this book, has proved a difficult community to study, but Pedro Pitarch has succeeded where others before him have failed. This volume, a revised version of the book first published in Spanish in 1996, benefits from the author's continuing involvement with that region of Mexico...This is an excellent addition to the literature on the area.--Susanna Rostas, Cambridge University Journal of the Latin American Studies (04/01/2013)

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PEDRO PITARCH is Professor of Anthropology at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid and Invited Researcher at the Instituto de Estudios Indigenas in Chiapas. He has edited or coedited several books, among them Human Rights in the Maya Region: Global Politics, Moral Engagements, and Cultural Contentions.

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