THE JAGUAR AND THE PRIEST

In this pathfinding ethnography, which was originally published in Spanish in 1996 as Ch'ulel: una etnografía de las almas tzeltales and is now extensively rewritten and amplified in English, Pedro Pitarch offers a new understanding of indigenous concepts of the s oul, personhood, and historical memory in highland Chiapas. Exploring numerous aspects of indigenous culture and historymedicine an d shamanism, geography and cosmology, and politics and kinship among themhe engages in a radical rethinking of classic issues in Me soamerican...[Llegir més]