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The Jaguar and the Priest
An Ethnography of Tzeltal Souls
Taschenbuch von Pedro Pitarch
Sprache: Englisch

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This pathfinding ethnography investigates how Indian concepts of the soul offer a new way of understanding personhood and historical memory in highland Chiapas, Mexico.
This pathfinding ethnography investigates how Indian concepts of the soul offer a new way of understanding personhood and historical memory in highland Chiapas, Mexico.
Über den Autor
By Pedro Pitarch
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780292737471
ISBN-10: 0292737475
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Pitarch, Pedro
Hersteller: University of Texas Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Pedro Pitarch
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2010
Gewicht: 0,465 kg
Artikel-ID: 106521291
Über den Autor
By Pedro Pitarch
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780292737471
ISBN-10: 0292737475
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Pitarch, Pedro
Hersteller: University of Texas Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Pedro Pitarch
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2010
Gewicht: 0,465 kg
Artikel-ID: 106521291
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