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List of Narratives | vii | |
Preface | ix | |
Chapter 1. | Introduction | 1 |
Santiago Momostenango | 1 | |
In the Time of the Great Earthquake: The Fieldwork and Its Setting | 9 | |
A Collection of Texts | 14 | |
Organization of the Work | 20 | |
Part 1. | The Institutional Context | 21 |
Chapter 2. | Religious Sodalities of Momostenango: The Communal Cult Institutions | 23 |
Saints and Sodalities | 23 | |
The Sodalities and Ritual Complexes | 24 | |
The Cofradias | 27 | |
The Dance Teams | 50 | |
Serving Jesucristo and the Saints | 62 | |
Chapter 3. | Traveling Saints | 64 |
Nino San Antonio | 64 | |
Patron Santiago | 75 | |
Replication in Momostecan Cult Institutions | 98 | |
Maya Themes in the Cult of the Saints | 100 | |
Part 2. | The Ritual Symbols and Their Meanings | 105 |
Chapter 4. | Cosmogonic Tree Raisings and Sunrises | 107 |
World Trees and Momostecan Cosmogony | 107 | |
The Conquest and the Spanish Sunrise | 118 | |
Chapter 5. | Secrets and Ordeals of Holy Week | 142 |
Costumbrista Holy Week | 142 | |
San Simon | 145 | |
Corpus and Santa Cruz | 159 | |
Serpentine Flowers from the Coast | 166 | |
The Tzulab | 171 | |
The Flowering Cross and Quichean Tradition | 182 | |
Chapter 6. | Continuity in the Quichean Expressive Culture Tradition | 185 |
Continuity | 185 | |
Sodalities, Saints, and Cabawils | 192 | |
A Complicated Quichean Tradition of Idolatry | 195 | |
World Trees at Momostenango and Palenque | 202 | |
Continuity in the Central Rite of Renewal: The Holy Week Complex and Quichean Tradition | 205 | |
Notes | 223 | |
Glossary | 263 | |
Bibliography | 275 | |
Index | 285 |
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