The Mixe of Oaxaca : religion, ritual, and healing
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The Mixe of Oaxaca : religion, ritual, and healing
University of Texas Press, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Mixe of Oaxaca was the first extensive ethnography of the Mixe, with a special focus on Mixe religious beliefs and rituals and the curing practices associated with them. It records the procedures, design-plan, corresponding prayers, and symbolic context of well over one hundred rituals. Frank Lipp has written a new preface for this edition, in which he comments on the relationship of Mixe religion to current theoretical understandings of present-day Middle American folk religions.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Munro S. Edmonson
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Social Organization and Kinship
2. Subsistence Agriculture
3. Religious Belief System
4. Calendrical System
5. Ritual Behavior
6. Rites of Passage
7. Village Festivals
8. Medical Concepts and Behavior
9. Postscript
Appendixes
A. Mixe Region
B. Mixe Phonemes
C. Mixe Texts
Notes
Glossary
Mixe
Spanish and Nahuatl
Literature Cited
Index
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