Zinacantan : : A Maya Community in the Highlands of Chiapas / / Evon Z. Vogt.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1969
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (733 p.) :; 144 halftones, 60 line illustrations, 8 maps, 18 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
  • Part I / Geographic and Cultural Setting
  • 1 / The Highlands of Chiapas
  • 2 / Tzotzil Prehistory and History
  • Part II / Material Culture and Economics
  • 3 / Subsistence Activities
  • 4 / Houses
  • 5 / Clothing
  • 6 / Trading and Other Economic Activities
  • Part III / Social Structure
  • 7 / Social Groupings
  • 8 / Settlement Patterns
  • 9 / The Life Cycle
  • 10 / Relationship Systems
  • 11 / The Cargo System
  • 12 / The Political System
  • Part IV / Religious Beliefs and Rituals
  • 13 / Cosmology and Ancient Gods
  • 14 / Myths
  • 15 / Catholic Churches and Saints
  • 16 / Human Souls and Animal Spirits
  • 17 / Sacred Places
  • 18 / Ritual Symbols
  • 19 / Witchcraft
  • 20 / Shamanistic Rituals
  • 21 / Cargo Rituals I
  • 22 / Cargo Rituals II
  • Part V / Some Principles and Processes
  • 23 / Replication
  • 24 / Encapsulation
  • 25 / Implications for Cultural Change
  • Appendixes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index
  • Appendix I / Harvard Chiapas Project Field Workers, 1957–1968
  • Appendix II / Tzotzil Phonemes
  • Appendix III / Zinacanteco Names
  • Appendix IV / Tzotzil Texts
  • Appendix V / Case Descriptions of Shamanistic Rituals
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index