Renewing the Maya World : Expressive Culture in a Highland Town Book

	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